Recommended Assessments for Learning Disabilities
A complete battery of tests administered by a qualified professional, including a narrative summary of the results and recommendations, should be submitted as documentation of a learning disability. The battery of tests should include at least one test from each of the following categories:
1. Intelligence (Aptitude and Cognitive tests – predicts level of academic achievement)
- Preferred test – WAIS-III (Wechlser Adult Intelligence Scales)
- Acceptable test – WJ-III (Woodcock-Johnson Psycho Educational Battery)
2. Achievement (measures current academic skills)
- WJ-III (Woodcock-John Psycho educational Battery)
- WIAT-II (Wechsler Individual Achievement Test)
- TASK-Stanford Test of Academic Skills
3. For learning disabilities – Information Processing (short and long-term memory, sequential memory, visual and auditory perception/processing, or processing speed)
- Memory
- California Verbal Learning Test
- Memory subtests of WJ-III
- Wechsler memory scales
- Visual
- Appropriate WJ-III subtests
- Bender Gestalt
- Test of visual perception skills
- Auditory Processing
- Appropriate WJ-III subtests
- Goldman-Firstoe-Woodcock Test of Auditory Discrimination
4. For ADD/ADHD – Behavior Observations
- Conners' Rating Scale
- Brown Adult ADD Scale
5. For ADD/ADHD – Assessing Attention
- Conners' Rating Scale
- Test of Variables of Attention (TOVA)
6. For ADD/ADHD – Assessing Executive Function and Memory
- Rey Complex Figure Test and Recognition Trial
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