Learning Disabilities Training: A New Approach - Introduction

It is not our role to dictate nor reinforce one particular screening and/or assessment tool. We should provide criteria and pre-existing evaluative information on the various screening tools and informal assessments that are presently available.

Agencies may already have learning disability screening and/or assessment tools that they use. It may be more beneficial to the programs to give them evaluative criteria to rate their existing practices and a list of possible tools to access.
This approach follows the Ministry's "Common Assessment" directive. The tool is not common, but the features are.
This approach respects the different program and learner needs that exist among the sectors (community-based, school board and college).