The 2023-2024 TDSB Special Education Plan for Students and Parents:
- Individual Education Plan (IEP)
- Understanding the referral process including the School Support Team (SST)
- Identification, Placement & Review Committee (IPRC)
- Parent Concern Protocol
- Special Education and Inclusion sessions for Caregivers
- Northern Student Support Services
Types of Assistive Technology Available to Students
Articles
- The Other Epidemic - The problems in Toronto’s schools didn’t start with COVID-19—our underfunded education system has been in a slow-motion crisis for decades. The Local, Winter 2020 Issue
- ABC Ontario - 2020 Educational Resources
- ADHD: Controversy, Key Research Findings, Rising Prevalence, and Promise - Brain & Behaviour Research Foundation, January 12, 2021
- Supporting Students with Dyslexia in Ontario Public Schools - Position Statement by the Ontario Branch of the International Dyslexia Association
Helpful websites and organizations related to Special Education
- Academic Resource Centre NSS (formerly known as the Special Education Department)
- Northern Secondary School - Gifted Program
- The Association for Bright Children of Ontario (ABC Ontario)
- Children's Mental Health Ontario
- Center for ADHD Awareness, Canada (CADDAC)
- For Adolescents - Understanding ADHD
- Teens with ADHD - Video Education Series
- Specific to Adolescent/Post-Secondary
- 10 Ways to Achieve Success
- Youtube Channel
- ADDitude - Inside the ADHD Mind
- Dyslexia Canada - Webinar
- Shift Your Thinking - Shifting how parents, professionals and youth view learning differences.
- Bright Lights Psychology Clinic - Free webinars as well as paid resources.
- Lives in the Balance - Advocating for vulnerable students
- Hospital for Sick Children Adolescent Medicine
- The Integra Program - Child Development Institute
- International Dyslexia Association - Assistive Technologies
- Reading Rockets - Helping Struggling Readers
- National Association for Gifted Children (For Parents section)
- Hoagie's Gifted Education Page (especially Hoagies' Gifted Blog Hops)
- Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted
- Mensa Canada (Parent Resources)
- Kids Help Line
- Learning Disabilities Association of Ontario (LDAO)
- Mood Disorders Association of Ontario (MDAO)
- Ontario Ministry of Education - Special Education Section
- Parent Involvement Advisory Committee (PIAC)
- Parent's Advocacy in the School
- TDSB Special Education Advisory Committee (SEAC)
- TDSB Special Education Page
Supporting Gifted Students at Home (available upon request)
Presentation Slides from Oct. 17, 2019 by Leonila Liko
The presentation includes notes on: one of Lev Vygotsky's theories of learning/cognitive development ; Carol S. Dweck's growth mindset theory of intelligence which is fully developed in her book: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (2006); and the VIA Strengths survey at www.viacharacter.org (both youth and adult surveys are available online for free).