Helping Students with LDs Navigate Secondary School

Individual Pathways Plans (IPP) are created in Grade 7 and can greatly aid in planning for the transition from elementary to secondary school. When a student has an IEP, a transition plan is a required part of this document. Who is involved in creating this document? Choose all that apply.

True or False. All secondary schools must provide orientation programs for students and parents to help ease the transition from Grade 8 to Grade 9.

Whether a student chooses to enroll in applied or academic courses depends largely on:

True or false. A student with a learning disability cannot be successful in an academic course.

True or false. Adolescents with LDs will acquire self-advocacy skills on their own, without instruction.

In order to be a good self-advocate, which skills must a student have:

Children and youth with LDs are ____ more likely to experience mental health challenges.

What percent of children and youth with LDs have social problems?

What factors could contribute to a student engaging in maladaptive or disruptive behaviours in the classroom? Choose all that apply.

10. Mindfulness meditation involves deliberately and repeatedly bringing one’s attention to thoughts, feelings, and sensations as they arise in the present moment. Research has shown that students who took part in mindfulness-based programs saw improvements in: (choose all that apply)

True or False. Using a memory aid during an exam or standardized test is always considered cheating.

By definition, students with ___________ will have difficulties in executive functioning.