for the student to respond orally, complete assignments and make decisions - Allow extra time for tests - Provide extra time to complete in-class assignments - Reduce the amount of work the student is required to do - Shorten the assignment so it can be accomplished within the time allotted - Focus on quality of productions rather than quantity - Shorten drill and practice assignments - Provide copies of notes - Provide instruction to increase reading speed by training reading fluency, ability to recognize common letter sequences - Provide times activities to build speed and automaticity with basic skills such as: reading list of high frequency words as fast as possible - Calculating simple math facts as soon as possible Learning math calculations though flash cards - Charting daily performance- - Focus on the knowledge the student has, rather than on speed tests to complete a large number of questions within a limited time. - Emphasize accuracy rather than speed - Replace times tests with alternative assessment procedures - Allow extra time for tests and exams - Provide a reader or text-to- voice software - Use test formats with reduced written output formats Instructional Strategies Instructional Strategies Assessment Strategies It involves the ability to automatically & fluently perform relatively easy or over- learned cognitive tasks without intentionally thinking it through. Students with slow processing speed may have problems with rate of learning, comprehension of new material, speed of performance, and mental fatigue Most obvious classroom implication is that their response is slower than average or any type of task, regardless of assignment or subject Working Memory PS is related to WM in that increased processing speed an decrease the load placed on WM while decreased SP can impair the effectiveness of WM Empirical studies that show improvement in processing speed are very limited in number, thus the primary intervention may be accommodations Interventions for Academic Areas HELPS: uses repeated readings, model reading, systematic error progress, use of praise & reward systems, verbal cuing to help reading fluency Number Sense: Student plays board game to build skills related to number sense including number identification, counting, estimation skills and ability to visualize number on an internal number line. Math Flash: A computerized number combinations intervention that uses flash card instruction and promotes the automaticity of facts