This document discusses Burnaby Mountain Secondary's mission to provide learning opportunities for students with special needs. It identifies different categories of special needs including physical disabilities, autism, and learning disabilities. The document explains that Individual Education Plans can include either adaptations, which retain learning outcomes and provide supports like extra time on tests, or modifications, which modify curriculum expectations and assessments. Adaptations allow students to work towards graduation while modifications do not provide graduation credits. Overall, the school aims to support students' strengths and compensate for weaknesses.

1. Burnaby Mountain Secondary

2.  Guiding Principle:
 All students have the potential to participate
meaningfully in their learning community.
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 Our Mission:
 To provide all students with special learning
needs, the opportunity to realize their learning
potential in the least restrictive environment.

3.  A Dependent Handicapped
 B Deaf/Blind
 C Moderate to Severe /
Profound Intellectual Disabilities
 D Physical Disabilities or
Chronic Health Impairments
 E Visual Impairment
 F Deaf or Hard of Hearing
 G Autism
 H Severe Behaviour Disorders
 Q Learning Disability
 K Mild Intellectual Disability
 P Gifted
 R Moderate Behaviour
Disorders
Low Incidence High Incidence

5.  Written For: Students who require adaptations or modifications to
their educational programs
 Purpose: To provide teachers, students and parents with a plan to adapt
materials, instructional strategies or assessment procedures,
or to modify, supplement, or replace parts of the regular
curriculum.

6.  Learning outcomes of the prescribed courses are
retained.
 Adaptations are provided so that the student can
participate meaningfully in the course.
 Students are assessed using standards for the course
(letter grades).
 Students receive credit towards a Dogwood
graduation certificate.
 Students are eligible for adjudication; appropriate
adaptations for Provincial exams.
 Adaptations: extra time for assignments and tests,
separate setting for tests, Kurzweil technology,
computer, spelling is not penalized, copies of class
notes, oral response, use of a calculator.
 Learning outcomes of the prescribed courses are
not retained.
 Learning outcomes are specifically selected to
meet the student’s special needs.
 Modifications are provided so that the student can
participate in the program.
 Students are not assessed using letter grades;
written comments.
 Students do not receive credit towards a
Dogwood graduation certificate.
 Modifications: Less learning outcomes completed
Adaptations Modifications

7. 
 The purpose of this class is to help students from all grades maximize
their learning in a variety of ways. This is achieved both by focusing on
the students' strengths and abilities and by providing support to compensate
for their areas of need.
 The course consists of three components: study skills, tutorial, and
skill development. The eligibility of students for this class is determined by
the School’s Resource Team.
 A learner profile is developed for each student, facilitating collaboration
with the subject teachers.

8.  Areas of strength that facilitate the student’s ability to learn:
Academic, Learning Style, Executive Functioning Skills, Behaviour
 Areas of concern that affect the student’s ability to learn:
Academic, Executive Functioning Skills, Behaviour
 Adaptations to Instruction/ and or assessment procedures:
Technological Needs; Instructional Considerations; Assignments;
Assessment
 Reporting Procedures