Responsiveness-to-Intervention Symposium

December 4-5, 2003 * Kansas City, Missouri

The National Research Center on Learning Disabilities sponsored this two-day symposium focusing on responsiveness-to-intervention (RTI) issues. The speakers, discussants, and participants assembled represented the wide diversity of individuals with a vested interest in LD determination issues. Advocates, instructional staff, researchers, and state-level education officials brought their collective and considerable expertise to the discussions.

Margo Mastropieri of George Mason University presented this invited paper during the symposium. For links to other papers and materials, visit the main Symposium 2003 page.


Margo Mastropieri

Margo Mastropieri is professor of special education, the Graduate School of Education, George Mason University. She previously served on the faculties at Purdue University and Utah State University, where she also worked as a researcher on the Early Intervention Research Institute. She has taught students with variety of handicapping conditions in a variety of settings. She presently serves as co-editor of the research annual Advances in Learning and Behavioral Disabilities, and from 1993-1997 was co-editor of Learning Disabilities Research and Practice. She is the co-author of over 30 chapters and more than 150 journal articles, and is co-editor or co-author of over 20 books. She has served as co-director of federal research grants in the areas of computer-assisted instruction, memory-strategy instruction, inclusive science education, and strategies for content area learning on the middle and high school levels.

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The symposium was made possible by the support of the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs. Renee Bradley, Project Officer. Opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the position of the U.S. Department of Education.