The Lane Academic Readiness Screen (LARS) was developed by Doctor Lane over 15 years ago to determine if a child would be "at risk" for learning difficulties. Over the years, the LARS has been proven to be an effective tool in predicting a child's risk level.
Now Dr. Lane has made this invaluable tool available to parents who may have concerns about their child in order to better understand if there is a potential problem.
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The Lane Academic Readiness Screen was developed based on four years of research evaluating the response of hundreds of parents. The LARS was developed to predict if a child is "at risk" for learning difficulties. The program was designed by comparing the responses of parents whose children were in the top 25% in reading or math to the responses of parents whose children were in the lower 40% in reading or math. Dr. Lane's study found that the parents of the top students would answer the questionnaire differently than the parents of children in the lower 40%. If the results indicate your child is "at risk", it means you answered the questionnaire more like the responses from parents of children in the lower 40%. In other words, "at risk" means that your child is more likely to be in the lower 40% than the top 25%.
The second part of the LARS program lists potential areas of concern in seven major developmental areas and if necessary, will recommend further testing for attention deficit disorders or vision.
Based on how the questions in the LARS program are answered, the results will identify the following areas of concern:
Remember, the LARS program is only a screen and is not intended to replace a professional evaluation. Although the LARS program is highly accurate, it is not 100% accurate. In the section dealing with "at risk" classifications, the accuracy rate is 80%. This means that the LARS program was correct in identifying 8 out of 10 children. In the section dealing with developmental areas, the accuracy varies, depending on the category, from 57% to 97% accurate. Therefore, parents and professionals should only consider the results of this program to be an indication that a child may have areas that need remediation and then take measures to get him the help he needs.