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RtI: Let the Collaboration Begin! ASHA 2011 San Diego, CA Marva Mount, M.A., CCC-SLP National Director, EBS Healthcare Jill Parmenter, M.H.S., CCC-SLP Regional Director, EBS Healthcare “Why Change???” (NSBA Toolkit for Change) • Every two or three years, the knowledge base doubles. • Every day, 7,000 scientific and technical articles are published. • Satellites orbiting the globe send enough data to fill 19 million volumes in the Library of Congress every two weeks. • High school graduates have been exposed to more information than their grandparents were in a lifetime. • Only 15% of jobs will require college education, but nearly all jobs will require the equivalent knowledge of a college education. • There will be as much change in the next three decades as there was in the last three centuries. What’s the big IDEA? • Early Intervening Services allow use of up to 15% of special education funds to be used for pre-referral activities • Allows for use of a Response to Intervention model in determining LD RtI: The Big IDEAS • Before we identify a learning disability we must rule out missed educational opportunity • Struggling students can and should be helped early, using strategic approaches • Use of scientifically based, or evidence based intervention • Progress monitoring is a big key • Resources from both general and special education need to be used • It’s about ALL students Response-to-Intervention (RtI) • An approach that provides different levels of intervention to students who are struggling. • Developed as an outgrowth of increased and over- identification in the category specific learning disability (SLD) in special education. • Also intended to address the skyrocketing costs of special education through both prevention of students being identified for the program, as well as utilization of special education resources (e.g. staff and funds for professional development). • Implementation commonly done through use of universal screening, progress monitoring, development of strategic and intensive programs in a tiered model of intervention. • Legislative support comes from IDEA 2004 and NCLB Why we think RtI is the answer!! • RtI is a system change designed to assist struggling learners • RtI is a way to integrate the knowledge and skills of SLPs into the whole school • RtI utilizes EBP • RtI allows flexibility for scheduling and service • RtI provides a mechanism to deal with some of the fundamental concerns about our system What is Response to Intervention (RtI)? • Programs designed to provide intense instructional opportunity, for a specified period of time, to students who may be suspected of having a learning/language disability • May use a problem solving approach or a intense intervention • Designed to provide students instructional opportunities they may have missed Why does RtI Work? • Because it is a systematic process of – Providing high quality instruction/intervention designed to meet the needs of individual students – Using information regarding the learning rate over time to determine the need for special education – Making important educational decisions related to intensity and duration of the intervention NASDSE 2005 In a Nutshell… • Response to Intervention is a well-integrated system that connects general, compensatory, gifted, and special education in providing high quality standards-based instruction and intervention that is matched to students’ academic, social, emotional, and behavioral needs. Multi-tier Model
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