The same accommodations available to students for the CAASPP are available to students taking the ELPAC. See Questions 11.3 and 11.4 above.

Additionally, an IEP team may determine that, based on the student’s unique disability-related needs, there is no appropriate ELPAC accommodation for one or more of the tested domains: listening, speaking, reading or writing skills.^[1] In this case, the student’s IEP team can “exempt” the student from being assessed in those domains. The student should still be assessed in the remaining domains. For example, if an IEP team determines that there are no appropriate accommodations available to assess a student’s speaking skills, the student would still be assessed in their listening, reading and writing skills. If a student with a significant cognitive disability cannot access the ELPAC even with appropriate accommodations, the IEP team may consider the Alternate ELPAC.

1. 5 C.C.R. Sec. 11518.25(c).[↩]