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Joseph A. Hogan – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2025
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (2004) allows alternate pathways for school districts to identify and classify students with a specific learning disability (SLD). Response to Intervention (RtI) is one of the frameworks schools can use when eliminating the use of the discrepancy model. The premise of RtI posits that…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Classification
Bricker, Diane D.; Felimban, Huda S.; Lin, Fang Yu; Stegenga, Sondra M.; Storie, Sloan O'Malley – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2022
Collaboration with caregivers and between disciplines and agencies is a recommended practice in the field of early intervention and early childhood special education (EI/ECSE) as well as required by federal legislation for young children with disabilities. Review of relevant literature suggests that collaboration entails a complex set of…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Early Childhood Education, Special Education, Students with Disabilities
Farkas, George – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2020
This brief examines California's Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS), which is a framework designed to identify and assist students performing below grade level. MTSS involves at least three tiers of support; Tier 2 includes personalized assistance. Unfortunately, Tier 2 services are not adequately resourced so it is not surprising that…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Intervention, Response to Intervention, Resource Allocation
Kari L. Sherwood; Matthew J. Smith; Mary A. Eldredge – Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 2024
This article examines current technology-aided instruction and intervention (TAII) available for autistic transition-age youth (TAY) in the United States and existing policies that may support or hinder the delivery of these interventions. Specifically, we focus on policies that might influence the delivery of TAII to autistic TAY. After a careful…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, College Bound Students, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Individualized Education Programs
Helen Ireton Weigand – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The state of Texas has been cited through the U.S. Department of Education under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) as failing to identify students under the Child Find component of the law using Response to Intervention/Multi-Tiered System of Support (RtI/MTSS). The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to identify…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Program Implementation, Federal Legislation, Equal Education
Dosun Ko; Dian Mawene; Yehyang Lee; Sumin Lim; Jahyun Yoo – Exceptional Children, 2025
In the U.S. education system, students of color experience multiple forms of marginalization at the intersection of markers of difference. These injustices manifest in multiple forms, such as higher rates of inappropriate referrals to special education, misidentification, conferring stigmatizing labels, and subsequently placing students of color…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Equal Education, Racism
Schumacher, Robin F.; Zumeta Edmonds, Rebecca; Arden, Sarah V. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2017
Promising findings from controlled research studies often fail to be transferred to and implemented in schools successfully. This problem is particularly apparent when considering implementation of evidence-based practices related to complex systems such as response to intervention (RTI) and other multitiered intervention frameworks in…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Response to Intervention, Evidence Based Practice, Learning Disabilities
Rebecca Archer Anwar; Juliet E. Hart Barnett – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2024
"Augmentative and alternative communication" (AAC) refers to a wide variety of communication devices, systems, tools, and strategies that support or replace spoken language. Augmentative and alternative communication users represent a range of ages, abilities, and communication needs. Support for AAC often begins in the public school…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Special Education, Special Education Teachers, Speech Language Pathology
Marisa Crozier – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Disproportionality in education is defined as the overrepresentation of specific racial or ethnic groups requiring special education (NJDOE New Jersey Department of Education [OSEP], 2018). Minority students who may be inappropriately identified as having disabilities may be harmed by being stigmatized with labels, experiencing lower expectations,…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Special Education, Administrators, Attitudes
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
Linan-Thompson, Sylvia; Ortiz, Alba; Cavazos, Linda – School Psychology Review, 2022
Within a culturally and linguistically responsive (CLR) multitiered system of supports (MTSS) framework, effective policies, practices, and personnel ensure that resources and tools promote equity for all students. Observation data were analyzed to describe the implementation of two components of MTSS/RTI, assessment and data-based…
Descriptors: Multi Tiered Systems of Support, Response to Intervention, English Language Learners, Decision Making
Zirkel, Perry A. – Exceptional Children, 2018
This article provides a systematic and impartial analysis of the law, including hearing and review officer as well as judicial decisions, specific to the intersection of response to intervention (RTI) and school districts' ongoing affirmative obligation of child find. The results reveal that this intersection has not been the subject of…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, School Districts, Program Implementation, Disabilities
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, US Department of Education, 2024
The describes the nation's progress in (1) providing a free appropriate public education (FAPE) for children with disabilities under IDEA, Part B, and early intervention services to infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families under IDEA, Part C; (2) ensuring that the rights of these children with disabilities and their parents are…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Equal Education, Federal Legislation, Students with Disabilities
Wiegand, Sarah D.; Brown, Jennifer A. – Young Exceptional Children, 2023
Early intervention (EI) teams can use Implementation Science to choose, implement, and sustain the use of evidence-based strategies and programs. Smith et al. (2014) described Implementation Science as "the study of the processes needed to bring new practices into widespread use" (p. 4). Programs work through four stages: exploration,…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Student Evaluation, Outcomes of Education, Early Intervention
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, US Department of Education, 2023
This is the 44th Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 2022. Section 664(d) of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), as reauthorized in 2004, requires that the Department of Education report annually on the progress made toward the provision of a free appropriate…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Equal Education, Federal Legislation, Students with Disabilities