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| Product | Description | Date | Format |
| Responsiveness to intervention (RTI): How to Do It | This manual is a tool for understanding, designing, and evaluating RTI features. Authors: Evelyn Johnson, Daryl F. Mellard, Douglas Fuchs, and Melinda A. McKnight |
2007 | WEB (Individual Sections: PDF) |
| Screening Tool for Well-Described Responsiveness to Intervention Models and Comparison Models | This tool helps educators gather information about school practices and characteristics. Authors: Daryl F. Mellard and Melinda A. McKnight |
2007 | |
| School-Based RTI Practices | This web module describes real-life examples of RTI service delivery models. It includes video interviews and research examples. | 2007 | WEB |
| Responsiveness to Intervention (RTI): Reading and Math Standardized Tier 2 Research-Based Intervention | This presentation describes a multi-tiered RTI model and gives examples of how such a model can work for reading and math. | 2007 | PDF (Handouts) PPT (Presentation) |
| Effective Behavior & Instructional Support (Combined PBS, EIS, RTI) | This presentation describes how an Oregon school district has implemented PBS, EIS, and RTI. (OSEP Part B Regulations Regional Implementation Meetings) Presenter: Carol Sadler |
2007 | |
| Applying Progress Monitoring to RTI Prevention and Identification | This presentation describes research into progress monitoring/curriculum-based measurement as applied to LD identification and RTI implementation. (Council for Exceptional Children) Presenters: Douglas Fuchs and Lynn Fuchs |
2006 | |
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| Secondary Applications of RTI: A Guided Discussion | This presentation summarizes a guided discussion on Secondary Applications of RTI. Presenters: Donald D. Deshler and Joseph F. Kovaleski |
2007 | PPT (Presentation) (Notes) |
| Responsiveness to Intervention in the SLD Determination Process | This document provides a conceptual overview of RTI--including examples of how RTI might operate in a school setting--and discusses its role in SLD determination. | 2007 | |
| NRCLD Update on Responsiveness to Intervention: Research to Practice | This report helps professionals and parents understand what RTI is, explains how NRCLD findings are helping schools use RTI, and answers questions about how RTI can be used in the SLD determination process. Author: Lynn S. Fuchs |
2007 | |
| Helping Educators Discuss Responsiveness to Intervention with Parents and Students | This paper was developed to help educators understand the many issues related to RTI. Authors: Lynn S. Fuchs and Daryl F. Mellard |
2007 | |
| TA & Information Related to IDEA 2004: Responsiveness to Intervention in Conjunction with Learning Disability Determination | This NRCLD publication provides an overview of RTI and SLD determination, defines many terms associated with related discussions, and lists sources of additional information. | 2007 | |
| Information Digest: Responsiveness to Intervention: An SLD Determination Resource | This paper describes RTI as one component of SLD determination. Authors: Julie M. Tollefson, Daryl F. Mellard, and Melinda A. McKnight |
2007 | |
| Resource List: Specific Learning Disabilities and Responsiveness to Intervention | This document lists literature, Internet, special education technical assistance and dissemination network, Regional Resource and Federal Center resources. Authors: Barbara E. Starrett, Sonja R. de Boer, and Julie M. Tollefson |
2007 | |
| Responsiveness to Intervention (RTI): Preventing and Identifying Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) for State Educational Agencies | This presentation defines RTI, discusses RTI and the SLD determination process, and reviews results of an NRCLD reading study. | 2007 | PDF PPT |
| Responsiveness to Intervention: Research, Policy, and Implementation | This presentation reviews research-based components of RTI, contrasts with school examples, and discusses RTI as a component of SLD determination. (National Association of School Psychologists) Presenter: Daryl Mellard |
2007 | |
| RTI for Identification of SLD: Early Intervening Services (Part 2) | This presentation reviews components of effective RTI models and describes related NRCLD products. (OSEP Part B Regulations Regional Implementation Meetings) Presenter: Daryl F. Mellard |
2007 | |
| Questions and Answers on Response to Intervention (RTI) and Early Intervening Services (EIS) | This OSEP document answers questions about RTI and EIS. (OSEP Part B Regulations Regional Implementation Meetings) | 2007 | |
| REACh: Responsive Education for All Children | This presentation describes an effort to help Wisconsin schools make systemic improvements to enable all students to succeed academically. (OSEP Part B Regional Implementation Meetings) Presenter: Kathy Laffin |
2007 | |
| Executive Summary of the NRCLD Topical Forum Applying Responsiveness to Intervention to Specific Learning Disability Determination Decisions | This NRCLD paper summarizes discussions held during a research-focused forum intended to move RTI discussions forward. | 2006 | |
| Integrating IDEA Provisions with School Reform: Early Intervening Services (EIS) and Responsiveness to Intervention (RTI) | This presentation reviews SLD determination and provisions of IDEA 2004. (National Association of School Psychologists) Presenters: Daryl Mellard, Donald Compton, and Douglas Fuchs |
2006 | |
| RTI and Scaling Up | This presentation examines the challenges of and possible factors for success of organizational change. (Council for Exceptional Children) Presenters: Don Deshler and Daryl Mellard |
2006 | |
| RTI: Screening for Secondary Intervention | This presentation explores the role of screening for early reading problems in RTI service delivery models. (Council for Exceptional Children) Presenter: Deborah Speece |
2006 | |
| RTI: Progress Monitoring | This presentation explores the role of progress monitoring in an RTI service delivery model. (Council for Exceptional Children) Presenter: Pamela M. Stecker |
2006 | |
| Response to Intervention: Ode to George Fox | This presentation reviews conceptual and technical issues related to RTI. (Council for Exceptional Children) Presenter: Edward J. Kame'enui |
2006 | |
| Responsiveness-to-Intervention: A New Method of Identifying Students with Disabilities | This presentation describes the RTI approach to SLD determination. (Council for Exceptional Children) Presenters: Douglas Fuchs, Lynn Fuchs, Donald Compton, and Joan Bryant |
2005 | PPT |
| Understanding Responsiveness to Intervention in Learning Disabilities Determination | This paper reviews the features associated with RTI and outlines activities involving staff of six Regional Resource Centers, NRCLD, and selected school districts. Author: Daryl Mellard |
2004 | PDF WEB |
| Core concepts of RTI | This page identifies core concepts of RTI to help establish a common frame of reference for discussions. | 2003 | WEB |
| Responsiveness to Intervention: An Alternative Approach to the Identification of Learning Disabilities | White paper presented at the Learning Disabilities Summit: Building a Foundation for the Future. Author: Frank M. Gresham |
2001 | DOC WEB |
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| RTI Research | |||
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| A Research-Based View of Specific Learning Disabilities: Responsiveness to Intervention Overview | This presentation defines SLD, reviews "best practices" of RTI, and provides advice to states and schools considering RTI. | 2007 | PDF PPT |
| Topical Forum 1: Applying Response-to-Intervention (RTI) to Specific Learning Disability (SLD) Determination Decisions: Research Findings | This presentation reviews the research findings presented during a forum focused on what RTI methods tell us about predicting outcomes and SLD identification. | 2007 | PDF PPT |
| Innovations in Identifying Learning Disabilities Using Responsiveness to Instruction. | This presentation focuses on three main topics: Dynamic assessment for fast tracking first-graders into appropriate instructional tiers for reading, the course of reading disability in first grade, and the course of math disability in first grade. Presenters: Doug Fuchs, Don Compton, and Lynn Fuchs |
2007 | |
| Model Site Research Overview | This NRCLD report summarizes interviews with school personnel and parents at sites that have implemented RTI models. Topics include improved instruction, reduced inappropriate identification of SLD, professional development, administrative involvement, establishing RTI practices, and advice to schools interested in RTI. | 2006 | PDF WEB |
| School-Based Responsiveness-to-Intervention (RTI) Practices | This report describes schools' uses of RTI components — school-wide screening, Tier 2 progress monitoring, and data-based decision making — and draws on practices at two schools to illistrate RTI. | 2006 | |
| The Prevention and Identification of Reading Disability | This presentation describes experimental RTI studies in reading and math. (National Association of School Psychologists) Presenters: Douglas Fuchs, Donald L. Compton, Lynn S. Fuchs, and Joan D. Bryant |
2006 | |
| Selecting At-Risk Readers in First Grade for Early Intervention: A Two-Year Longitudinal Study of Decision Rules and Procedures | This presentation describes a two-year longitudinal study of decision rules and procedures in relation to selecting at-risk readers in first grade for early intervention. (National Association of School Psychologists) Presenters: Don Compton, Doug Fuchs, Lynn Fuchs, and Joan Bryant |
2006 | |
| Principles, Profiles, and Promises of Shared Book Reading: Developing Vocabulary and Oral Comprehension in Young Children | This presentation describes research and results related to vocabulary interventions and highlights findings from IES-funded projects. (Council for Exceptional Children) Presenters: Deborah Simmons and Sara McDonagh |
2006 | |
| The Prevention and Identification of Reading Disability | This presentation provides an overview of an NRCLD reading study and answers questions about how prevention affects prevalence of reading disability and how different RTI measures and classification methods affect RD prevalence and severity. (Council for Exceptional Children) Presenters: Douglas Fuchs, Donald L. Compton, Lynn S. Fuchs, and Joan D. Bryant |
2006 | |
| The Prevention and Identification of Math Disability Using RTI | This presentation reviews findings of an NRCLD study of RTI and math. (Council for Exceptional Children) Presenters: Lynn Fuchs, Don Compton, Doug Fuchs, Kim Paulsen, Joan Bryant, and Carol Hamlett |
2006 | |
| Responsiveness-to-Intervention Symposium | This web module provides access to papers, presentations, and video from a two-day symposium focused on RTI issues. | 2003 | WEB |
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Education Programs. Award No. H324U010004. Opinions expressed herein are those of the National
Research Center on Learning Disabilities and do not necessarily represent the position of the U.S.
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© 2007 National Research Center on Learning Disabilities
Last Updated: November 19, 2007
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