Purpose and Intent

The LDI post-secondary curriculum is designed to increase the intellectual, personal, physical, social, and career development of its student population. Further, it is aimed at engaging young adults in rigorous and challenging experiential learning and educational pursuits commensurate with their level of development. The curriculum provides a balanced program for all students and is flexible enough to permit wide variation in student development or aspirations.

The LDI program faculty, support staff and administration seek to accurately predict how an individual who is a non-traditional thinker understands, perceives, learns, and processes information. This belief is the basis of the LDI approach to prescriptive, individualized instruction. The center-piece of the program and its efforts focus on identify and on techniques that facilitate abilities-based reflections of individual interests, capabilities, and aptitudes. These factors are combined with demonstrating the demands of living in an adult community, teaching and using workplace literacy, and identifying targeted employment or career objectives.

Overall the post-secondary program is designed to accommodate individuals of varying levels of development, prepare students to be productive citizens in a democratic society, and enable young adults to become self-directed learners. The scope and sequence of instruction is devised to allow concurrent participation in LDI coursework and community-based instruction, service learning, training, or work-related activities.