Assistive Technology: Texthelp Read&Write
Texthelp’s Read&Write is a software toolbar that can help students with learning differences overcome learning challenges. Learn more about this amazing assistive technology!
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Join Our Community!
As LDS celebrates our 50th year of transforming lives through learning, we are focusing on doing our part to make the world a better place. We believe this can be accomplished by building community.
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LDS Access: Our Very Own “Magic School Bus” Comes to LDS!
Have you ever wanted to take a ride with Ms. Frizzle on the Magic School Bus? Well, LDS is thrilled to announce the next best thing: LDS Access, a clean-energy mini-bus! LDS Access is Canada’s first electric mobile classroom service!
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Press Release: LDS Launches Mobile Classroom Service, Providing Learning Support Access to Kids Most in Need
LDS Launches Mobile Classroom Service, Providing Learning Support Access to Kids Most in Need
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Assistive Technology: Lexilife’s Lexilight
Lexilight is a reading-aid desk lamp that can significantly reduce symptoms of dyslexia when reading printed texts. Learn more about this amazing assistive technology!
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Press Release: Vancouver Charity Expands Individualized Learning Support Services For Students Across B.C. with Learning Differences
Now serving students across BC: LDS’s RISE at Home program offers online 1:1 learning support for children with learning differences. Sliding scale fees.
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LDS stands in recognition of the ongoing legacy of colonialism and Residential Schools in Canada
We are angered and profoundly saddened at the discovery of the undocumented loss of the lives of 215 Indigenous children at the site of the former Kamloops Residential School and on the territory of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation. While the stories of trauma, abuse, and terror Residential Schooling inflicted on Indigenous children, their families, and community continue to come to light, these discoveries are acutely painful reminders of the complex ongoing and intergenerational consequences of colonialism. Much truth remains to be told before we can move towards meaningful reconciliation.
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Assistive Technology: SMART Technologies’ SMART Board
The centrepiece of our AT Studio, SMART Technologies’ SMART Board is an industry-leading interactive display whiteboard that offers tools for LDS instructors to take their teaching to the next level.
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RISE one-to-one instruction is now open for applications!
Learn the details of our RISE one-to-one instruction program and how to apply now!
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Mission Maker: Stuti—practicum student experiences LDS
In May 2021, Stuti, an education assistant (EA) student, joined LDS for her practicum. “I had ideas of what the common challenges of autism were, but I didn’t know in-depth,” says Stuti. “I am more excited now for being an EA.”
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