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Response to Intervention and Specific Learning Disability Identification: Evidence from Tennessee
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Allison F. Gilmour; Justin Harper; Blair Lloyd; Alyssa Van Camp – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Response to intervention (RTI) is a method for providing academic support to students and for identifying specific learning disabilities (SLDs). Using interrupted time series and hazard models, we examined if statewide RTI adoption in the U.S. state of Tennessee was associated with changes in rates of SLD and first-time SLD identification in…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Disability Identification, Intervention
A Snapshot of RTI Implementation a Decade Later: New Picture, Same Story
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Berkeley, Sheri; Scanlon, David; Bailey, Tessie R.; Sutton, Jason C.; Sacco, Donna M. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2020
Response to intervention (RTI) has evolved from its first decade of implementation. Because states guide and regulate policy and practice at the state and local education agency levels, it is important to understand their critical role in RTI implementation. A systematic review of all 50 state education agency websites was conducted to provide an…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Positive Behavior Supports, Equal Education, Students with Disabilities
The Trend in SLD Enrollments and the Role of RTI
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Zirkel, Perry A. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2013
Based on the latest U.S. Department of Education data, this article presents the enrollment figures for students identified with specific learning disabilities (SLD) under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) for the school years from 1995-1996 to 2011-2012. The figures for each year are (a) the number of students with SLD ages 6…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, Response to Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Incidence
Policy and Practice Considerations for Response to Intervention: Reflections and Commentary
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Ikeda, Martin J. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2012
The Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHCA) was legislated in 1975 in part to provide funding to states, parent centers, and research centers, for supporting access to public education for students with disabilities. In 1975, the intent of EHCA was to find children with disabilities and ensure that children were evaluated, identified,…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational Practices, Educational Policy, Reader Response
Implementation of Response to Intervention: A Snapshot of Progress
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Berkeley, Sheri; Bender, William N.; Peaster, Lindsay Gregg; Saunders, Lauren – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2009
This article provides a snapshot of how all 50 states are progressing with the development and implementation of response-to-intervention (RtI) models 1 year after the final regulations for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act were passed. Data were collected through a review of existing state department of education Web sites and…
Descriptors: Intervention, Disabilities, Models, Policy
Learning Disabilities: The Changing Landscape.
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Bateman, Barbara – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1992
This current response to a reprinted 1968 article by Ray Barsch (EC 602 662) focuses on legal aspects of learning disabilities, especially problems in implementing IDEA (the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) and continuing controversies concerning definition, evaluation, instructional intervention, and placement or service delivery…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Definitions, Delivery Systems, Educational History