Comments on: Response to Intervention and Learning Disabilities

By: melanie

melanie — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:51:20 +0000

Great post!

By: Mark Pennington

Mark Pennington — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:02:03 +0000

RTI will play a significant role in establishing district credentials for Race to the Top federal funding. The International Reading Association just published its RTI document with respect to establishing principles for reading interventions. Although I favor many of the reforms proposed by the commission, I do have problems with some of the initiatives.

I have written a review of this new document titled “Response to Intervention: What Just Won’t Work.” Included are links to the document itself.

Mark Pennington
MA Reading Specialist

By: Dr.Narayana Raja

Dr.Narayana Raja — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:46:14 +0000

It is a wonderful way of assisting the children with LD. RTI methdology needs eloboration and the lessons learnt from such practices shall be circulated to even normal teachers who would practice it before they refer the case to LD screening.
Developing countries like India require such methodlogy formats.

By: Melina

Melina — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:18:02 +0000

Wonderful overview of RTI. I work with a PR firm that represents McGraw-Hill Education, and I thought you might be interested in a recent position paper on this topic.

In it, Arthur Griffin, senior vp of the urban advisory group, says, “The difference between Response to Intervention and previous assessment and intervention methods is the difference between a treasure hunt and a witch hunt. The old model looked for what was wrong with children and focused on what they didn’t understand. The new model looks at what they do understand and attempts to builds upon that spark to nurture their development and encourage their future achievement.”

The PDF of the white paper is available at http://www.mhsegsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/position-paper.pdf.