Comprehensive Individualized Curriculum and Instructional Design

activities. Common methods for this are free-access preference assessments and forced-choice preference assessments. In a free-access preference assessment (shown below in Figure 2), the assessor makes multiple materials or activities that may be preferred by the student readily available. The student’s interactions with the materials or activities are recorded to identify the most preferred items. See a sample template below: Student: Date Range of Sessions: Complete the table below noting how long the student engages with the materials/activities during the session. Date: Item 1: Item 2: Item 3: Item 4: Item 5: Item 6: Total Time Engaged: Figure 2. Free-Access Preference Assessment Template A forced-choice preference assessment involves selecting a specific number of materials or activities and presenting them in pairs in a random fashion. At the conclusion of a forced-choice preference assessment, a hierarchy of preferred materials or activities is determined. An example of a forced-choice template is available at: http://r4strategiesasd.wikispaces.com/file/view/Forced+Choice+Reinf+Assessment.pdf Self-determination practices. Five practices identified as having evidence for promoting self-determination for IWD (Loman, Vatland, Strickland-Cohen, Horner, & 7