Response to Intervention

Question 1

Purpose of RTI?

Answer 1

To provide an instructional framework that accommodates the needs of all students and results in the improved achievement for all students.
-To offer a means for appropriately identifying/selecting students for continued services through an IEP based on their demonstration responses to scientific research based instruction.

Question 2

Core principles of RTI?

Answer 2

1. Universal screening
2. Continuing progress monitoring
3. Multi-level prevention system
4. Data based decision making

Question 3

Four major issues of the Ability-Achievement Discrepancy Model?

Answer 3

1. wait to fail model
2. test are biased
3. process is biased
4. clinical judgement is biased

Question 4

The role RTI should play in diagnosis of learning disabilities?

Answer 4

1. reduce over-diagnosis
2. reduce misdiagnosis
3. providing more effective instruction by encouraging early intervention when problems arise, rather than waiting for things to get bad. Sooner the issue becomes apparent, the sooner you start to improve the issue.
4. identify the problem regardless if it’s behavioral or academic.
5. helps differentiate students and helps identify students as having a learning disability.