GCSE options and SpLD

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DD , head 9, has ADHD.
She moved to her current school (GDST) in year 8 and was allowed to do only one NOT to make life a bit easier. This means she has 3 free periods a fortnight, which are described as 'study skills' periods; they are supervised and either led by a teacher of allow her to do homework.
She has to choose options this week. In addition to statutory maths, English ×2 and combined science, she wants to do Latin, drama, history and geography. She could also do ICT as an after-school extra.
At options evening last week, the year head ( who also runs the study skills periods) strongly recommended that DD drop an option, in order to keep the free periods. She feels they provide breathing space for DD.
DD is adamant she won't drop geography, history of drama and isn't keen to drop Latin either; we feel Latin would be good to have in the absence of a MFL.

So, do we take school's advice and drop her to 8, or do we let her start 9 and see how it goes? And in either case, do we add in the ICT full course, or just forget that?

DD is reasonably bright, doing well ( not brilliantly, and with a fair amount of support from us) and enjoys school. Her spiky cognitive profile means she scores anywhere between 48% and 94% in exams.

MFL, not NOT.

Who is going to worry about her having Latin or not? Many schools are now offering 8 GCSEs for the majority of their pupils, so 9, if you have SpLD, is pushing it without help. You cannot help in the exams and coursework has disappeared. It’s all on final exams now. Will she cope with that? If you are putting a lot of effort in, how will she manage when the work gets harder?

No one needs to study ICT these days in my view. Can she learn to type instead?

Thanks for both responses.
It's hard to know how useful the study skills sessions are, tbh. Quite often, DD says she has nothing to do in them ( eg homework) so is given things to do, such as comprehension. Other times, the group she's in with are all set a specific task to do.
She wasn't given the free periods because she needed them, originally - they became available because she missed out on learning Spanish.

I'm assuming Latin still has a value because schools still teach it and offer it as an option? She finds it easier than, say, French, and it can only help her English, surely? That said, it would be the option to go if she did struggle with the work load.
ICT she is doing as a short course this year, but it is being offered as an option for the first time - an hour a week after school.

I guess we'll just have to see how she copes. The support she needs is really getting her to start, plan, organise her thoughts, check what she's written etc. She qualifies for extra time in exams, and probably some other things, such as a prompt.