Great Resource for Teachers, Parents, and Students

Take a look at this resource created by York Region District School Board! Thank you LD@School for sharing!

Understanding Learning Disabilties: How Processing Affects Learning is a comprehensive resource designed for educators working with students with learning disabilties, but our parents and students use it too.  This resource is meant to teachers to plan and support students with learning disabilties, but it is also useful for the students to go through the resource and identify their own areas of strength and need to determine what strategies they find helpful to support their learning.  At Sagonaska, we are always trying to teach our students to advocate for themselves and to understand themselves as learners, and we use this resource as a tool to have those conversations with our students.

To check out the full resource, click here.

Free Webinar Presented by LD@School!

FREE WEBINAR: Adolescence Stress, Coping Strategies and Learning Disabilities

Presented by: Cameron Montgomery, Ph.D 
Thursday November 5, 2015 3:30 – 4:45pm EST
 This interactive webinar will assist participants in understanding the relationship between stress and coping strategies in adolescents with learning disabilities (LDs). This will provide educators and parents of our students great information on how to identify practical and effective interventions for students and children with LDs who are experiencing stress and who require functional coping strategies. Building resiliency is key for our students and this is a great learning opportunity for all, so please share with your friend and colleagues.


Click here to find out more information about this FREE webinar on the LD@school website!http://bit.ly/1VHkTKe

October's Wellness Challenge - The Importance of Mental Health Awareness

People with special needs are more vulnerable to mental health problems than the general population. Encouraging good mental health is important for all children, but particularly when your child has a learning disability. Children need to develop the skills to understand and express their emotions from an early age. 

October is Mental Health Awareness month and SAG will be discussing ways of understanding and demonstrating Mental Wellness. By encouraging open dialogue with each other we are helping to eliminate the stigma attached to mental illness and teaching kids how to identify their emotional needs along with tools and strategies for coping.

Although learning disabilities and mental health concerns are two completely different things, we recognize that students that do struggle in school can be vulnerable to mental health problems.  Over the next month, we are encouraging our students to be proud of their accomplishments and not to let their challenges hold them back.  Our students may have more struggles in school demonstrating what they know, but that doesn't mean they are any less intelligent or can't be as successful as someone without a learning disability.  Some of the greatest minds of all time were known to have a learning disability as well; people like Thomas Edison, Walt Disney, Richard Branson, and even Albert Einstein!

We are asking our students to share their successes on Twitter this month with the hastags: #sag #ownmyLD! Please encourage your children to tweet out some positive messages over the next month and we will collect them all and share them on the blog at the end of the month!

Digital Story Telling

Check out how some of our former students used Claymation to tell stories and show off their fluent technology use!