• Encourage Tom to ask for overviews or summaries from future teachers and potential managers.
• Provide examples and demonstrations of what is expected from assignments and projects and encourage Tom to ask for examples from teachers and/or potential managers.
• Help Tom to write brief points before he is going to present information to make his points clearer and to help him stay on track.
• Involve Tom in a small group setting that works on building social skills to help with his tendency to interrupt conversations. Within this setting, work on organization and time management skills. Tom would also benefit from learning various study strategies.
• Help Tom break down his writing assignments into smaller units and provide the amount of time needed to complete each unit. Using a checklist would help with this process.
• Encourage Tom to use the word processor for his writing assignments.
• Provide training on how to effectively use the spell checker and thesaurus.
• Explore the following potential accommodations with Tom to help with mathematics:
  • Large display screens for calculators, adding machines, coloured Mylar templates, and coloured coding for maintaining ledger columns.

Observations and information gained from the general intake

• A 24-year old female who just enrolled into the LBS program at a local college to work towards her ECE certification.
• She left school at 16 due to pregnancy - her son is now 7 and attending Grade 1.