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The Impact of Response to Intervention on Learning Disability Identification: School Based Practices
Direct linkSmith, Tina B. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The "Response to Intervention Guidance for New York State School Districts" (2010) document indicates Response to Intervention (RTI) is a mandated general education process intended to provide early interventions to struggling at-risk students. The multi-level RTI framework is structured to include targeted evidence-based interventions…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, School Districts, Early Intervention, At Risk Students
Peer reviewedWinters, Marcus A. – Education Next, 2015
As public schools, charter schools are legally required to educate all students regardless of the difficulties they bring with them into the classroom. Nonetheless, many are concerned that the charter sector fails to educate all comers. Charter schools are often criticized for not enrolling similar proportions of students with disabilities as are…
Descriptors: Special Education, Achievement Gap, Charter Schools, Disabilities
Zirkel, Perry A. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2010
Students with specific learning disability (SLD) continue to account for a higher proportion of all special education enrollments than any other classification under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Probably the most frequent topic in the special education literature since the 2004 amendments to IDEA has been the movement…
Descriptors: Eligibility, Learning Disabilities, Laws, Special Education
Download full textBocala, Candice; Mello, Daniel; Reedy, Kristin; Lacireno-Paquet, Natalie – Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2009
Response to intervention (RTI) is an approach to instruction, assessment, and intervention that enables early identification of students who are experiencing academic or behavioral difficulties. The jurisdictions served by the Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast and Islands expressed interest in a study of whether and how state education…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Instructional Improvement, State Departments of Education
Gresham, Frank M.; Vellutino, Frank R. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2010
A fundamental assumption in the identification of specific learning disabilities (SLD) has been that the presence of a severe discrepancy between ability and academic achievement is a valid marker for the presence of a SLD. This assumption is based on the notion that discrepant low achievers constitute a unique group of children who are different…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Intelligence Quotient, Learning Disabilities, Low Achievement
Possin, Carol C. – 1986
This study addressed policy problems encountered during the process of identifying and remediating pupils with learning disabilities (LD) in New York State. An ethnographic approach was used in the detailed analysis of policy as it affected 13 elementary LD students (from urban, suburban, and rural schools), their parents, and service providers.…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Definitions, Disability Identification, Early Intervention
