General Information

What is a LD? - Definition and an explanation of LD.

Common Terms - Glossary of terms often used when discussing LD’s.

Teaching Students with a LD - Information and resources for teaching students with learning disabilities.

SSRCE Helping LD Students- Have You Tried?- Easy-to-use checklist of strategies for different types of LD learners.

Executive Functioning- Information and resources to help your students get organized.

Flags for LD Identification

• • • A distinct gap between the level of achievement that is expected and what is actually being achieved

    • Difficulties with socio-emotional skills and behaviour

Common Signs from Preschool to Adult

LD Checklist

This checklist helps identify possible areas of concern.

Intervention & Assessment

Learning Disorders/Learning disabilities may be informally flagged by observing significant delays in the child's skill development.  An actual diagnosis of a learning disorder/learning disability is made using standardized tests that compare the child's level of ability to what is considered normal development for a person of that age and intelligence.

Interventions:

KLLIC, Reading Recovery, Early Literacy Support (ELS), Levelled Literacy Intervention (LLI), Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing (LiPS), Visualization & Verbalization (VV), Seeing Stars & On Cloud Nine 

Assessments: 

School-Based: PRIME, Level B (Woodcock Mastery Reading  Mastery Test, KeyMath 3 Diagnostic Assessment)

Specialists:  Speech Language Pathologist (SLP), Assistive Technology (AT), Occupational Therapist (OT), Physiotherapist (PT), Psychologists

Are Labels Helpful or Harmful?

Diagnosis

Once a student receives a diagnosis of LD, through PsychoEducational testing, the following occurs:

1.  Feedback session with psychologist, LD services, student planning team and family.

• • • • consent form for LD services signed

      • copy of assessment is uploaded to TIENET 

2.  Referral to LD Services through TIENET.

3.  Once referred by the school team, LD Services will consult with student.

4.  Implementation of recommendations from assessment and specialists.

5.  Monitor student progress, document and adapt as required.

Lending Library

Books, resources and testing kits are available for loan, please contact LD Services.