RTI TACKLES THE LD EXPLOSION

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DVD • RTID799W

Price $99.95

Program Contents:  32 minutes

Captioning: None

Copyright Date: 2007

What is RTI*, and who is truly learning disabled? According to the research that drove changes to the IDEA in 2004, 50% of children identified as students with disabilities in the United States are identified with learning disabilities. Of those, 70 to 80% would never have been identified if only they had been effectively taught to read.

Determined to tackle the LD explosion, Congress introduced a whole new approach for identifying children with learning disabilities. While it authorizes an assessment of a child’s response to research-based reading instruction in regular education — referred to as *Response to Intervention (RTI) — as a prerequisite to referral, it eliminates continued reliance on the now discredited discrepancy model.

Learn how these seemingly minor changes in federal law place new and far reaching demands on the entire school community and how they serve as a powerful catalyst designed to redefine the roles and responsibilities of special education and general education in tackling illiteracy.

Karen Norlander, an attorney, explains the changes in the federal law and the research that drove the changes. Karen Kemp, national educational consultant and educator, shares her experiences in moving the traditionally separate and independent systems of special and general education toward the unified and effective collaborative model the law demands. Together, Ms. Norlander and Ms. Kemp identify the obstacles, offer ways to overcome them, and provide a roadmap to facilitate the transition.