IDEA 2004 impacts your responsibilities for screening, pre-referral intervention and special education eligibility determination. The line between special education and general education is blurring, with substantial implications for a school’s core curriculum and the academic outcomes for all student subgroups.

In this 90-minute taped audio conference, Dr. Joseph Witt, noted scholar and trainer on Response to Intervention (RTI), discusses the positive, practical aspects of integrating RTI into school-based team decision-making under IDEA 2004. He describes the RTI process and compares it to decision-making under the former system.

You will learn:

• How to build the essential elements of RTI – in plain language
• The critical components of a research-based RTI process (STEEP: System to Enhance Educational Performance), including practical examples of RTI outcomes vs. outcomes of a traditional refer-test-place process
• How to determine whether individual student problems are related to issues with the core curriculum or to potential learning disabilities
• How to use the STEEP RTI process and the “can’t do/won’t do” assessment to determine whether a student has a skill deficiency or merely a motivational problem
• How RTI benefits general education via early detection and remediation of the majority of at-risk learners -- without referrals