Specific Learning Disability and Responsiveness to Intervention General Information
The general information in this section covers a broad range of issues and provides a solid background on SLD and RTI. Use these materials to build your own knowledge of these topics, distribute copies to others who need an understanding of these issues, or use the information presented here as the foundation for critical conversations as you prepare to change the SLD determination procedures in your state, district, or school.
Executive Summary of the NRCLD Symposium on Responsiveness to Intervention
NRCLD Update on Responsiveness to Intervention: Research to Practice
Information Digest: Responsiveness to Intervention: An SLD Determination Resource
Helping Educators Discuss Responsiveness to Intervention with Parents and Students
Resource List: Specific Learning Disabilities and Responsiveness to Intervention
Specific Learning Disability and Responsiveness to Intervention Tools for Change
The tools in this section will help you begin to make changes in the procedures you use for specific learning disability determination. We developed these tools to help you start the necessary conversations and consider the many factors that influence the SLD determination process.
SLD Identification Overview: General Information and Tools to Get Started
Responsiveness to Intervention in the SLD Determination Process
Screening Tool for Well-Described Responsiveness to Intervention Models and Comparison Models
Getting Started with SLD Determination: After IDEA Reauthorization
Responsiveness to Intervention: How to Do It
This tool will help you design and implement responsiveness to intervention models in the context of SLD determination. This manual provides comprehensive coverage of RTI features, based on current research.
Introduction to Responsiveness to Intervention: How to Do It
Section 1: School-Wide Screening
Section 2: Progress Monitoring
Section 3: A Tiered Service Delivery Mode
Section 4: Fidelity of Implementation
Section 5: School Examples, Student Case Studies, and Research Examples
The PowerPoint presentations and handouts in this section will help you lead discussions about SLD, RTI, and the process of change in the context of revising SLD determination procedures. You must have Microsoft PowerPoint installed on your computer to use these files.
A Research-Based View of Specific Learning Disabilities: Implementing Change
Presentation | Handouts
A Research-Based View of Specific Learning Disabilities: Responsiveness to Intervention Overview
Presentation | Handouts
Responsiveness to Intervention (RTI): Preventing and Identifying Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) for State Educational Agencies
Presentation | Handouts
Responsiveness to Intervention (RTI): Reading and Math Standardized Tier 2 Research-Based Intervention
Presentation | Handouts
Topical Form I: Applying Response-to-Intervention (RTI) to Specific Learning Disability (SLD) Determination Decisions: Research Findings
Presentation | Handouts
As your schools move forward with changes in SLD determination procedures--possibly adopting responsiveness to intervention as one component--parents likely will have questions. The materials in this section are designed to help you answer these questions. You may want to give copies of these materials to parents whose children will be affected by changes at your school.
Who is the Student with Specific Learning Disability?
What is Responsiveness to Intervention?
How Can Early Intervening Services and Responsiveness to Intervention Work Together?
