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Skills Development Seminar (SDS) is a course designed to provide academic support to those students who have particular learning needs and require academic support. This support class meets every other day for 85 minutes. In addition, the SDS specialist works closely with classroom teachers to provide appropriate individualized and/or small group support. Students also learn study skills and to develop time management strategies in order to become successful independent learners. This course duration is over a full year and students with mild disabilities or designated learning issues are placed in this class by many different assessments; such as, IEP's, Action Plans, SST team recommendation or Parent recommendation. Skills that are addressed throughout the year are study strategies, organizational systems, test preparation, reading fluency and comprehension, writing skills, and project completion that require multi-step procedures.