KLDA™

Features and benefits

• Measures a student’s academic strengths and weaknesses in key areas, including reading, writing, math, listening, concentration, memory, organization, time management, oral presentation, self-control, pressure, and anxiety.
• Can be incorporated into university-based student success and retention programs.
• Provides students with a comparative sense of their academic skills in relation to their peers using means, standard deviations, and percentile scores.
• Helps identify students at risk for learning disabilities and attention-deficit disorders who may need further assessment.
• Helps identify other issues that may 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?

• Academic and mental health professionals working with students in community colleges, 4-year colleges, universities, and graduate schools to identify students with learning difficulties and recommend interventions.
• Academic advisors, counselors, and tutors working in college and university advising, counseling, and disability resource centers.
• Advisors and teachers working in community colleges, as these institutions typically serve larger populations of academically at-risk students.
• Teachers, advisors, and counselors who work in First Year Experience (FYE) programs as a screener to identify students in need of academic support services.
• Independent practitioners, such as psychologists and learning disability specialists, as a screening tool and as part of the diagnostic process.