Assessments for ABE Students

Specific Learning Disability Assessment

Confirms or rules out the presence of a specific learning disability. Provides required documentation for requesting GED accommodations or post-secondary accommodations.

Diagnostic Assessment

Determines the presence of other cognitive problems, including ADHD. Feedback includes instructional recommendations and required documentation for requesting GED accommodations.

Adult Reading Profile

Determines strengths and weaknesses in alphabetics (phonemic awareness and decoding), fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

All LDA Minnesota assessments provide:

Self-understanding of cognitive and achievement strengths and weaknesses
Recommendations to more closely match instruction with the learner’s pattern of strengths and weaknesses.

The goal of an assessment is to clearly identify the existence and evaluate the impact of a neurological (from birth) or acquired (from brain injury) learning disability, attention deficit, or other learning difficulty. A comprehensive assessment includes not only standardized test results and interpretation, but also history, observation, and analysis of the functional limitations of a learning difficulty on the adult’s performance in school, work, and life.

Please contact your site manager for more information on how to refer a diagnostic assessment for your ABE student.

"The Learning Assessment gave [my ABE student] the confidence to pursue her high school diploma instead of her GED as well as pursue her career goal to become a nurse. You guys are the first call I make when I have learning concerns about my stduents."

- ABE Teacher, Alexandrea, MN

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