RTI or Response To Intervention is currently the dominant approach to reading instruction in public schools across the United States (over 70% of school districts), but in a just-released progress report funded by the Department of Education from the Institute of...
Dyslexia and IQ: What You Must Know [Premium]
Here are 4 of the Most Important Things You Should Know About Dyslexia & IQ: #1. It Can Be Used to Identify Strengths and Talents. In our minds, one of the best reasons that dyslexic students benefit by IQ testing is that it can quickly establish their intelligence and strengths. There are many strengths that aren’t measured by IQ testing, of course, but also many that it can find – and it provides an objective standard with schools and other institutions wil accept. For dyslexic students in particular, it tends to trump traditional ‘achievement’ assessments because the best tests are given one-on-one (we do not like group IQ tests) and tests of higher order thinking are for the most part untimed (the verbal tests) involve […]
What Works for Dyslexia? RTI and Tier 3 Intensive Reading Intervention [Premium]
Response to Intervention or RTI has been adopted by 1/3 of US states, although the details of its use and requirements varies considerably in terms of how it addresses the needs of dyslexic students. At its best RTI is a multi-tiered approach to the identification and support of students with different learning and behavior needs. At its best RTI provides high quality, scientifically-based classroom instruction, ongoing student assessment, and tiering of instruction to students who require differentiation or individualization. At it’s worse, RTI has been criticized as a “wait to fail” program where student neither get adequately assessed nor provide with appropriate instruction. Wrightslaw’s article The RTI Hurdle begins with “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” Certainly vigilance and advocacy on the part of […]