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== ==[|What You Need to Know about IDEA 2004 Response to Intervention (RTI): New Ways to Identify Specific Learning Disabilities]     ==

[|Response to Intervention: Guidelines for Parents and Practioners]
By James Hale, Associate Professor, School Psychology Program, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine ==One of the most notable buzzwords today is "Response to Intervention" (RtI). In this paper, I will explore how RtI came to be, what it means for helping children learn, and how it can be used as a method for identifying children with Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD). I conclude that RtI is an important change that should receive widespread adoption in the schools, but that its use in disability determination requires further scrutiny .==