As the changes change the expectations set for students, they may significantly limit a student's chances of achieving the qualifications necessary to obtain a diploma (Special education and inclusion, session 3). For this reason, I believe my school has not implemented any changes to ensure other avenues of support are implemented first. One modification that I think would help one of my students with hearing loss (who has difficulty with phonemic awareness) would be to make it easier for her to pronounce the words on worksheets and assignments in our teaching classroom general. My teacher and I might give him words like dog and cat (which were featured in our "Words of the Week") when we are working on homework related to language acquisition, instead of words with more difficult sounds to be distinguished as boat and