What role does RTI play in special education eligibility?
IDEA 2004 offers greater flexibility to school teams by eliminating the requirement that students must exhibit a “severe discrepancy” between intellectual ability and achievement in order to be found eligible for special education and related services as a student with a learning disability. This increased flexibility has led to a growing interest in using RTI as part of an alternative method to traditional ability/achievement discrepancy comparisons. IDEA 2004 addresses RTI procedures within several contexts. Effective instruction and progress monitoring. For students to be considered for special education services based on a learning disability they first must have been provided with effective instruction and their progress measured through “data-based documentation of repeated assessments of achievement.” Furthermore, results of the student progress monitoring must be provided to the child’s parents. Evaluation procedures. The law gives districts the option of using RTI procedures a
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