An ARD committee reviews a seventh-grade student with a learning disability in reading who relies on reminders and prompting to use accommodations. Which skill is most likely to require development?

• A. Reading rate improvements with screening.
• B. Phonemic awareness.
• C. Self-advocacy to increase personal responsibility.
• D. Multiplication fluency.

Answer: (C)

The key idea being tested is self-advocacy and personal responsibility for using accommodations. Because the student relies on reminders and prompting to access supports, the most important skill to develop is the ability to recognize when an accommodation is needed and to request or independently apply it. Building this self-advocacy helps the student participate more fully in instruction, access the curriculum without constant prompting, and gradually become more autonomous in navigating accommodations across settings.

Phonemic awareness and overall reading rate improvements are foundational reading skills that may need ongoing work, but they don’t directly address the student’s demonstrated need for prompting to use accommodations. Multiplication fluency relates to math fluency and isn’t the immediate concern given the described pattern of using prompts for accommodations.