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KLDA™

Kane Learning Difficulties Assessment™

Steven T. Kane, PhD; Professional Manual by Steven T. Kane, PhD, and Heddy Kovach Clark, PhD

Purpose:
Screens college students for learning difficulties and ADHD
Format:
Paper and pencil, Online administration and scoring via PARiConnect, E-Manual
Age range:
17 years and older
Time:
15 minutes
Qualification level:
A
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Valid and Reliable Screening Test to Map Learning Strengths and Weaknesses and Identify Those who may have a LD

 

The KLDA quickly screens college students who may be at risk for learning difficulties and ADHD.

Features and benefits

  • Measures an individual's academic strengths and weaknesses in key areas, including reading, writing, math, listening, concentration, memory, organization, time management, oral presentation, self-control, and anxiety.
  • Provides users with a comparative sense of their academic skills in relation to their peers using means, standard deviations, and percentile scores.
  • Helps identify individuals at risk for learning and attentional disabilities who should may need further assessment.
  • Helps identify individuals with other issues that affect learning, such as anxiety, memory, or functional problems like organization and procrastination.
  • Suggests recommendations for interventions and accommodations for each scale and subscale weakness.

Who Administers the KLDA?

As no special qualifications are needed to administer and the interpret the KLDA, it is used in a wide variety of settings.

  • With students in vocational schools, technical colleges, community colleges, 4-year colleges and universities, and graduate schools
  • In college and university advising, counseling, and disability resource centers
  • As part of university-based student success and retention programs
  • By academic advisors, counselors, and tutors identify at-risk students and recommend interventions
  • By community college advisors and teachers as they typically serve large populations of academically at-risk students
  • Before a term begins or with first-year students as an “early alert” tool to identify the most at-risk students
  • Included by independent practitioners, such as psychologists and learning disability specialists, as a screening tool and as part of the diagnostic process
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