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Learning Disabled/Behaviour Disorder (LD/BD)

Special Education - Elementary
Student Group:
Special Education

The Learning Disabilities/Behaviour Disorders Program offers a supportive classroom setting for students who are identified as having learning disabilities, as well as moderate behavioural difficulties associated with frustrations about learning.

The Learning Disabilities/Behaviour Disorders Program offers a supportive classroom setting for students who are identified as having learning disabilities, as well as moderate behavioural difficulties associated with frustrations about learning. These students are provided with an individualized program in a small class setting to:

  • provide individualized/group remedial instruction
  • teach learning strategies
  • develop appropriate social and behavioural skills

 

STUDENT PROFILE

Students are appropriate candidates for referral to this program when they:

  • meet the Ministry criteria for Learning Disabilities (Q); moderate to severe learning disabilities
  • have behavioural difficulties which meet the Ministry criteria for students requiring Moderate Behaviour Support (R) or students requiring Intensive Behaviour Support (H)
  • academic skills are 2 years or more delayed
  • require intervention beyond the school’s resources

Deficits are NOT primarily resultant from factors such as:

  • sensory or motor impairments
  • intellectual impairment
  • emotional disturbance (and/or lack of motivation to learn)
  • lack of opportunity to learn
  • English as a Second Language

 

SELECTION / SCREENING

Learning Disabilities/Behaviour Disorder program referrals must come through the Screening Committee.

 

DOCUMENTATION REQUIRED

□ referral to Screening form

□ psychological assessment

□ speech and language assessment (if available)

□ Individual Education Plan (IEP)

□ reports from pertinent community agencies/specialists (e.g. Ministry for Children and Family Development, Greater Vancouver Mental Health Services) when available

□ School Based Team minutes

 

EXIT CRITERIA

Students are reviewed on a regular basis and if a change in placement is recommended a referral is submitted to the Screening Committee.

Placement in a regular classroom is recommended when students have developed skills to a level which will allow them to function successfully. 

 

CAPACITY AND STAFFING

Grades 4 to 7 (9 - 12 years of age)

Program capacity is 14 students

1 Teacher

2 SSAs

 

PROGRAM LOCATIONS

Mackenzie Elementary 

Seymour Elementary