??: Adult with Learning Disability

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I am hoping that one of our many educators (or former educators) can help me with this.

I volunteer at my church's community center as a GED instruction. I have a student that I believe is learning disabled. She is 19 years old, was home schooled for a while, and just recently admitted to me the other day that she was in "slow" classes while in school. I think the last grade she was in an organized class room was 9th.

If you met her you would think she was an intelligent but shy young lady. She is well spoken, but cannot grasp or retain the most basic concepts like multiplying 3 numbers and 2 numbers or division on the same things (I teach the math class). The English teacher has reported similiar issues with her reading comprehension skills. I am all for "everyone can learn", but I wonder if we are banging our heads against a wall here?

She has been in the program for about a year, and she is no where NEAR ready to the the GED, nor is she even progressing. At one point I will think she understands a concept (say fractions), but 2 weeks later, you would think we have never discussed them. I would be ok if I thought she was mastering concepts and we were making progress (even if it was slow progress), but we are not.

Can anyone help me?? The group that oversees the GED testing program locally has been absolutely no help!!

1. Are you aware of testing for Adults to determine if they have a LD?

2. Any tips to help her retain the information we discuss each week? The class only meets once a week for 2.5 hours, so the expectation is that they do homework, but more often that not her homework is either wrong, not done, or obviously done by someone else because it is right, but she cannot explain how she got the answer.