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Issue: Early Intervening Services, Response to Intervention, and Identification

TOPICS  DATABASE
IDEA 2004
Part B

View information on a variety of topics and related issues regarding the implementation of NCLB, IDEA and other legislation from federal sources, including vetted documents from the U.S. Department of Education, and resource documents from  IDEA Partnership organizations.


Federal Sources Federal Sources


U.S. Department of Education - Home Page
President's Commission on Excellence in Special Education (PCESE) – Final
Report



What Works Clearinghouse – Home Page

IES Practice Guides:
Assisting Students Struggling with Reading: Response to Intervention (RtI) and Multi-Tier Intervention in the Primary Grades

Improving Adolescent Literacy: Effective Classroom and Intervention Practices

Effective Literacy and English Language Instruction for English Learners in the Elementary Grades

Encouraging Girls in Math and Science

Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning


Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) - Home Page

Coordinated Early Intervening Services (CEIS) Under Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

General IDEA Guidance from OSEP

OSEP’s Legislation and Policy Guidance

OSEP Policy Correspondence

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Prohibits Discrimination in Assigning Students to Schools, Classes or Courses of Study in Programs or Activities That Receive Federal Financial Assistance

 

Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) IDEA 2004 Website:

Building the Legacy: IDEA 2004

This site is a "one-stop shop" for resources related to IDEA and its implementing regulations, released on August 3, 2006.

Topic Briefs:

Disproportionality

Early Intervening Services

Module 5: Disproportionality and Overrepresentation - scroll down

Video Clip:

Early Intervening Services/Response To Intervention (RTI)

Questions & Answers:

Questions and Answers On Response to Intervention (RTI) and Early Intervening Services (EIS)

 

OSEP Memorandum 07-09 to State Directors of Special Education
April 24, 2007
Topic: Disproportionality
Letter clarifying the requirements governing overidentification and disproportionality under section 612(a)(24) of IDEA and the requirements governing significant disproportionality under section 618(d) of IDEA.


 

Data Accountability Center (DAC) - Home Page
Methods for Assessing Racial/Ethnic Disproportionality in Special Education: A Technical Assistance Guide


National Research Center on Learning Disabilities (NRCLD) – Home Page

Learning Disabilities Resource Kit: Specific Learning Disabilities Determination Procedures and Responsiveness to Intervention

Responsiveness to Intervention: An Alternative Approach to the Identification of Learning Disabilities

Responsiveness to intervention (RTI): How to Do It

Responsiveness to Intervention School-Based Practices

National SEA Conference on SLD Determination: Integrating RTI within the SLD Determination Process

Core concepts of RTI

Responsiveness-to-Intervention Symposium

Changing Roles Resources:

A Research-Based View of Specific Learning Disabilities: Implementing Change

Professional development and collaboration within the RTI process

The Scaling of Innovations: Factors to Consider Beyond Professional Development

RTI and Scaling Up

Effective Behavior & Instructional Support (Combined PBS, EIS, RTI)

Introduction to Responsiveness to Intervention: How to Do It

RTI School-Based Practices

Responsiveness to Intervention

Parents: How Can Early Intervening Services and Responsiveness to Intervention Work Together?

Parents: Who is the Student with Specific Learning Disability?

Parents: What is Progress Monitoring?

Parents: What is Responsiveness to Intervention?

SLD Eligibility: A Users' Guide to the New Regulations

Learning Disabilities Resource Kit: Specific Learning Disabilities Determination Procedures and Responsiveness to Intervention
Section on Tiered service delivery

Section on Progress monitoring

 

The IRIS Center for Faculty Enhancement at Vanderbilt University – Home Page
Modules

What Do You See? : Perceptions of Disability

Cultural and Linguistic Differences: What Teachers Should Know

Teaching and Learning in New Mexico: Considerations for Diverse Student Populations

RTI (Part 1): Overview

RTI (Part 2): Assessment

RTI (Part 3): Reading Instruction

Classroom Assessment (Part 1): An Introduction to Monitoring Academic Achievement in the Classroom

Classroom Assessment (Part 2*): Evaluating Reading Progress

Info Briefs

A Cultural, Linguistic, and Ecological Framework for Response to Intervention with English Language Learners

Addressing Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students: Overrepresentation in Special Education: Guidelines for Parents

Addressing Diversity in Schools: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

Becoming Culturally Responsive Educators: Rethinking Teacher Education Pedagogy

Communicating with Culturally Diverse Parents of Exceptional Children

Cultural Identity and Teaching

Culturally Responsive Literacy Instruction

Disproportionate Representation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education: Measuring the Problem

Legal Rights: The Overrepresentation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education

On the Nexus of Race, Disability, and Overrepresentation

Practices for English-Language Learners: An Overview of Instructional Practices

Preventing Disproportionate Representation: Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Prereferral Interventions

Racial Disproportionality in School Disciplinary Practices

Understanding Culture

Working with Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Families

A Cultural, Linguistic, and Ecological Framework for Response to Intervention with English Language Learners

A Parent's Guide to Response-to-Intervention

Designing from the Ground Floor: Alternate Assessment on Alternate Achievement Standards  Determining

Determining Adequate Yearly Progress Kindergarten through Grade 6 with Curriculum-Based Measurement

Early Reading Assessment: A Guiding Tool for Instruction

Helping Educators Discuss Responsiveness to Intervention with Parents and Students

Meeting the Needs of Significantly Struggling Learners in High School: A Look at Approaches to Tiered Intervention

Parent Page: What is Responsiveness to Intervention?

Preventing Disproportionate Representation: Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Prereferral Interventions

Case Studies:

RTI: Data-Based Decision Making

RTI: Progress Monitoring

 


The IDEA Partnership - Home Page

The Partnership Collection on RTI

Together on RTI

 


National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY) – Home Page
Response To Intervention (RTI)


 

Project FORUM at NASDSE - Home Page
Response to Intervention as it Relates to Early Intervening Services:  Recommendations

Project Forum's Policy Forum on Response to Intervention and Early Intervening Services (barriers, policy recommendation and implementation considerations)

Response to Intervention and Early Intervening Services Policy Forum Presentation

Coordinated Early Intervening Services (CEIS): Policy Forum

State Definitions of Significant Disproportionality

English Language Learners with Disabilities: Identification and Other State Policies and Issue

 


National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems (NCCRESt) – Home Page
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Practice

Culturally Responsive Response To Intervention

Collection and Use of Evidence

Legal Rights: The Overrepresentation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education

Addressing Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Student Overrepresentation in Special Education: Guidelines for Parents

Creating Opportunities to Learn: A Forum for Addressing Disproportionality

Disproportionate Representation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education: Measuring the Problem
Preventing Disproportionate Representation: Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Prereferral Interventions
Cultural Identity and Teaching
Addressing the Disproportionate Representation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education through Culturally Responsive Educational Systems
Practitioner Brief :  Haciendo frente a la sobrerepresentación de los estudiantes de origen cultural y lingüístico diverso en la educación especial: Pautas para los padres. It is also available in English:

Addressing Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students: Overrepresentation in Special Education: Guidelines for Parents.
Theoretical Assumptions for Addressing the Disproportionate Representation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education
Disproportionate Representation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education: Measuring the Problem
Racial Disproportionality in School Disciplinary Practices
Preventing Disproportionate Representation: Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Prereferral Interventions
Becoming Culturally Responsive Educators: Rethinking Teacher Education Pedagogy
Addressing Diversity in Schools: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
Culturally Responsive Literacy Instruction
Addressing Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students: Overrepresentation in Special Education: Guidelines for Parents
Legal Rights: The Overrepresentation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education


 

National Center on Instruction – Home Page

Center on Instruction Brochure.

RTI Tiered Instruction Goes Mainstream [K-12]

Synopsis of "The Use of Reading and Behavior Screening Measures to Predict Nonresponse to School-Wide Positive Behavior Support: A Longitudinal Analysis"

Secondary Applications of RTI: A Guided Discussion [6-12]

 


National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY) – Home Page

Addressing diversity
Indicator 9: Disproportionate Representation in Special Education that is the Result of Inappropriate Identification

Percent of districts with disproportionate representation of racial and ethnic groups in special education and related services that is the result of inappropriate identification.

Indicator 10: Disproportionate Representation in Specific Disability Categories that is the Result of Inappropriate Identification

Percent of districts with disproportionate representation of racial and ethnic groups in specific disability categories that is the result of inappropriate identification.

 


Southeast Regional Resource Center (SERRC) – Home Page

Achievement Gaps, Diversity, and Disproportionality



IDEA Partnership Organizations IDEA Partnership Organizations


Council of Chief State School Officers - Home Page
Using NCLB Funds to Support Extended Learning Time: Opportunities for Afterschool Programs

 


Council for Exceptional Children – Home Page

CEC Makes Disproportionate Representation a High Priority



National Education Association - Home Page
Truth in Labeling: Disproportionality in Special Education

Seven Questions Every Parent Should Ask about Disproportionality

 


National Association of School Psychologists – Home Page

Disproportionality Issues in Special Education

 


American Association of School Administrators – Home Page

Systems Thinking Tool Kit


 

Education Commission of the States - Home Page
Closing the Achievement Gap Series: Part II Response to Intervention (RTI) Basic Elements, Practical Applications, and Policy Recommendations



National Association of School Psychologists – Home Page
Response to Intervention (RTI): A Primer for Parents

Response to Intervention – resource page

Conceptual Confusion Within Response-to-Intervention Vernacular: Clarifying Meaningful Differences

Evaluating Evidence-Based Practice in Response-to-Intervention Systems

Implementing RTI: Assessment Practices and Response to Intervention

 

 

National Education Association – Home Page
Research Spotlight on Response to Intervention

Going Mainstream



National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) - Home Page

Read the Roadmap to Pre-K RTI: Applying Response to Intervention in Preschool Settings

RTI Action Network

 


Learning Disabilities Association of America – Home Page

Response to Intervention:  Position Paper of the Learning Disabilities Association of America
Responsiveness to Intervention and Learning Disabilities

RTI Summary

A Parent's Guide to Response-to-Intervention (RTI)

 


National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE) – Home Page

Note: NASDSE has additional RTI documents available for purchase.  Go to publications page and search on “Response to Intervention”.
National  Implementation of Response to Intervention (RTI): Research Summary

Response to Intervention: Research for Practice

Response to Intervention Blueprints for Implementation: District Level

Response to Intervention Blueprints for Implementation: School Building Level