NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Feasibility, Acceptability, and Usefulness of a Screening Tool for Caregiver Learning Differences in Early Childhood Home Visiting: Staff and Caregiver Perspectives
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Allison West; Kelsey Williams; Jane Daniels; Leeya Correll – Prevention Science, 2024
Early childhood home visiting programs are well positioned to improve equity and reduce health disparities for families headed by caregivers with intellectual disabilities and other learning differences. Early identification of learning differences through screening may help home visiting staff tailor services and thus improve family engagement…
Descriptors: Parents with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Child Caregivers, Early Childhood Education
Service Coordinators' Perceptions of Autism-Specific Screening and Referral Practices in Early Intervention
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Pizur-Barnekow, Kris; Muusz, Marta; McKenna, Catherine; O'Connor, Emily; Cutler, Ann – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2013
Service coordinators in a statewide early intervention program were surveyed to develop an understanding of screening and referral practices to identify children on the autism spectrum. Quantitative and qualitative data summarizing autism-specific screening and referral practices are reported. More than 50% of the respondents reported that they…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Coordinators, Autism, Screening Tests
Monitoring Progress: Response to Intervention's Promise and Pitfalls
Direct linkDirect link
Education Week, 2011
Response to intervention began as a way to identify and teach struggling readers and special education students. It's fast becoming a way to change schooling for everyone. This special report examines the many forms the approach is now taking, its research base, its influence on the educational marketplace, and the federal regulations that both…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Evaluation, Response to Intervention, Change Strategies
What Special Education Directors Say about RTI
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Werts, Margaret Gessler; Lambert, Monica; Carpenter, Ellen – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2009
An e-mail survey of special education directors was conducted to ascertain practices related to implementation of Response to Intervention (RTI) processes in North Carolina schools. The data indicate that special education directors have information about RTI as a method of identifying students with disabilities, but there is little consensus on…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Mail Surveys, Special Education, Program Implementation
The Effects of Response to Intervention Implementation on Special Education Referral and Identification Rates
Direct linkDirect link
Kreider, Theresa E. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Special education referral and identification rates have risen dramatically over the last thirty years. In fact, several studies report an increase of nearly 200% (Cortiella, 2008; Vaughn, Linan-Thompson, & Hickman, 2003). During the last several years a new model of identifying students with learning difficulties has received much…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Rural Schools, Intervention, Emotional Disturbances
A Transactional Perspective on Reading Difficulties and Response to Intervention
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
McEneaney, John E.; Lose, Mary K.; Schwartz, Robert M. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2006
A Response to Intervention (RTI) model proposes identification of students with reading difficulties on the basis of a series of progressively more intensive instructional interventions over extended periods of time. Learners with serious reading difficulties are those whose difficulties are not resolved by the interventions. Three advantages of…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Intervention, Teaching Methods, Reading Research