Acknowledgements

This has truly been a group passion and a group effort. It all started with the assumption, central to education, that we do not and can not make assumptions about what others know. Teachers take this to heart on a daily basis as they continuously check in with their students. They know that sometimes knowing the definition of a word can be the difference between understanding or misunderstanding a story, solving or getting stuck on a problem, and feeling included or excluded. However, education is a field full of jargon. We teachers love our lingo and this lingo can help us to be specific and efficient in our work and in our communications. But, there is a lot of it. And, in order for it to be useful, it needs to be known and understood. That’s were ADD*Ed came in. We noticed a beautiful list of 60+ accommodations in the most recent policy document for special education from the Ontario Ministry of Education. The list was filled with a great array of helpful tools and strategies. Our ADD*Ed team of teachers in training and special education-focused graduate students put our heads together to determine a way to make these terms come to life. And, about a year and a half later, this Ed Guide on Accommodation was born. Many hands and minds were involved in this process including our exceptionally ambitious work study group members, Madison McCabe and Jazmine Eadie, who tirelessly organized the process and formatted the guides. Also, our bright and hardworking undergraduate ADD*Ed group who helped put together the initial versions of the guides including: Shelby Hyland, Hannah Burrows, Hannah Peterson, Natalie Pothier, Andy Stokes-Noonan, Kyra Dizy, Nyre Viscardi, and Sophia Franco. This also included our ADD*Ed mentorship coordinator, Kianna Mau, who helped facilitate several aspects of this large project and projects manager, Allie Minuk, who helped set this project in motion did the initial edits of each and every guide. In addition, we had essential project support from ADD*Ed communications coordinator, Jazz Graham, and events coordinator, Emily Teves. And this digital format would not be possible without the bravery and skills exhibited by ADD*Ed research coordinator, Haley Clark, who took great content and made it pretty and accessible as well as the just-in-time support of Queen’s University Librarian, Mark Swartz.

As it usually is in education, this was a group effort toward a common, seemingly unattainable, goal. I thank each and every one of our tremendous contributors as well as each of you accessing and sharing this resources as we work together to improve the educational opportunities, experiences, and outcomes for students with exceptionalities.

~Dr. Jordan Shurr