This paper provides strategies for communicating about and with learners diagnosed with emotional or behavioral disorders. Based on educator interviews, the author discusses ways to communicate about learners through Response to Intervention models from two Midwestern school districts. The models provide ideas for identifying and monitoring learners who may have emotional or behavioral disorders. The paper applies communication principles suggested by a survey of scholarly research to generate ideas about communicating with learners who may be diagnosed with emotional or behavioral disorders. The following are appended: (1) Aitken's Ten-Step Strategy for Building Communication Responses; (2) Process Reminder; and (3) Prompts.