Learning Disabilities/Response to Intervention

National Research Center on Learning Disabilities - Responsiveness to Intervention (RTI) has gained momentum as a means of determining learning disabilities in school-age students. NRCLD has undertaken a number of activities examining RTI best practices and offer the results on their website at http://www.nrcld.org.

The National Center on Student Progress Monitoring - www.studentprogress.org, provides information and technical assistance to implement progress monitoring techniques.

The National Research Center on Learning Disabilities (NRCLD) - DIBELS - The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) are standardized, individually administered measures of early literacy development. They are designed to be short fluency measures used to monitor the development of pre-reading and early reading skills.

Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) - established a review process to analyze reading curricula and materials; website has reports about reading programs.http://www.fcrr.org/

National Reading Panel - The National Reading Panel published their findings on research based reading in two reports and a video, "Teaching Children to Read." They also identified effective instructional strategies for teaching students with reading difficulties. http://www.nationalreadingpanel.org

Reading Rockets - a national multimedia project offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help.http://www.readingrockets.org/

Response to Intervention (RTI) within a Problem-Solving Model -
Building a Foundation by Scientifically Based Progress Monitoring
by Mark R. Shinn, Ph.D., National Louis University
Mark Shinn RTI presentation.pdf, a 19-page (76-slide) presentation in PDF File format (2.67MB)

Intervention Central - MASP Fall Conference 2007 Materials

Follow this link to find selected resources from these training sessions.

Vocational Resources for Older Students

Disability Training Videos & Resources

Skills for Today's Workforce: Communication Skills, Workplace Skills, Life Skills, Literacy Skills

Medications

Partners in Education, a self-study course designed to help parents of children with developmental disabilities navigate the special education system.

Behavioral Interventions

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