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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
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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
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
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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
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
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Simmons, Katharine C.; Mayo, Robert – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1997
A survey of 100 speech-language pathologists involved in the assessment and treatment of patients with dysarthria investigated their attitudes toward the Darley, Aronson, and Brown (DAB) method of classification. Results indicated that most clinicians, believing it helps in the design of a treatment protocol, used the DAB classification system.…
Descriptors: Classification, Disability Identification, Intervention, Program Attitudes
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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