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Date Posted: 20:27:29 02/21/07 Wed
Author: Missy Flinn
Subject: Re: Response to Intervention and ZPD
In reply to: Tish Colvin 's message, "Response to Intervention and ZPD" on 06:55:08 02/16/07 Fri

Here's my opportunity to expound upon Response to Intervention for those of you who may not be familiar with it. In order to reduce the misdiagnosing and overdiagnosing of students with Learning Disabilities, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (2004) developed a method called RTI. This method will shift the focus of a Learning Disability Diagnosis. Currently, the discrepancy criterion is used to determine eligibility for Special Services, meaning that a student has to have a significant discrepancy between his or her ability (IQ) and achievement test scores. With RTI, the focus will shift to instruction within the classroom. The idea is to make instruction more effective with interventions in order to try and help the student succeed rather than merely putting a label on them. Here is a link to an article published by the International Reading Association that will help clarify the Response to Intervention method: http://www.reading.org/downloads/resources/IDEA_RTI_report.pdf

>At the end of Missy's presentation last night she
>mentioned the need to examine a student's "response to
>intervention" before tracking the child in special
>education. Although I don't know much about the
>practice it reminded me of Vygotsky's zone of proximal
>development (ZPD). In both cases the educator is
>looking not only at the student's current ability but
>at what the student can do with the help of others.

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