Checklists and learner self-assessment tools

The following resources can be accessed:

• The National Center for Learning Disabilities' checklist of common warning signs of learning disabilities from childhood through to adulthood
• The American Council on Education and the National Adult Literacy and Learning Disabilities Center's sample checklist
• Adult Literacy and Learning Disabilities - "Analyzing my Strengths and Struggles" self-assessment tools

Go to: http://ldlink.coe.utk.edu/screening.htm
Select the Screening Process and scroll down to find the resources listed under Observation Checklists and Information Checklists for teachers and learners.

Learning disabilities screening tool evaluation

Go to: Bridges to Practice, Guidebook #2 at
http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/ld/bridges/materials/bridges_docs.html
Appendix B, page. 171
The following are a few tools selected from the Bridges to Practice report card process. Access an evaluative report card on the screening tools listed below.

Bringing Literacy Within Reach: Identifying and Teaching Adults with LD
Cost: $25.00
Learning Disabilities Association of Canada, 323 Chapel Street, Suite 200 Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1N7Z2, Phone: (613) 238-5721, Fax: (613) 235-6391

Diagnostic Assessment of Reading with Trial Teaching Strategies (DARTTS)
Cost: $190.50, Riverside Publishing Co., 425 Spring Lake Drive, Itasca, IL 60143, Phone: (800) 323-9540, Fax: (630) 467-7192

Phoenix Specific LD Quick Screen for Adults, Cost: $3.00
William Butler, P. O. Box 32611, Phoenix, AZ 85064-2611