Learning support (SLD)
The specific learning differences program (SLD) is designed to provide support for students who have a diagnosis that impacts their learning and requires targeted intervention to address their learning differences.
Support services are offered for students who have documented mild to moderate specific learning differences (SLD program). Using a variety of intervention tools, students are taught compensatory skills to enable them to work successfully within the mainstream curriculum.
SLD Program Aims:
- Develop a growth mindset and resilience
- Build self-advocacy skills, confidence and independence
- To give direct instruction to students and to collaborate with teachers to provide individualized approaches of support
FAQs
- How is student progress monitored?
- How do students receive their testing accommodations?
- How is a student's learning profile/needs communicated to the classroom teacher?