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Response to Intervention Task Force

The Chairpersons of this task force are:

Clark Dorman/Amelia Van Name Larson

3234 Renlee Place/6618 Glencoe Dr.
Orlando, FL 32803/Tampa, FL 33617
Work: 813. 391.3059 /813.794.2363
Email: dorman@coedu.usf.edu/
avanname@pasco.k12.fl.us

The FASP Executive Board is committed to ensuring that our membership is provided with timely professional development and resources related to educational policies impacting our practice. To this end, FASP President Mark Neely has continued a task force with an emphasis on addressing Response to Intervention (RtI) in Florida. Please check this link often, as we will be updating this site with relevant RtI resources and materials. If you have resources that you feel would be appropriate to add to this list, please contact the committee chairpersons.

Resources:

Florida Department of Education Technical Assistance Paper on RtI:

www.fldoe.org/ese/tap-home.asp (FY 2006-8)

National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE) publication

Response to Intervention: Policy Considerations and Implementation

This book is an excellent resource for school psychologists, trainers, and administrators and is available for $15 for single copy (discounts for larger orders) through www.nasdse.org.

RtI Wire by Jim Wright of Intervention Central

This excellent site can be accessed through www.jimwrightonline.com/php/rti/rti_wire.php or through the home page of Intervention Central at www.interventioncentral.org

Among the many resources on this link is an RtI training kit including a powerpoint on “Getting Started with RtI: A Guide for Schools” with accompanying presenter notes and an RtI school readiness survey.

RtI Partnership at University of California/Riverside

www.rti.ucr.edu

The site provides training materials on RtI and progress monitoring as well as sample psychoeducational reports that utilize RtI for instructional decision making.

NRCLD: 2003 RtI Symposium

www.nrcld.org/symposium2003/index.html

The National Research Center on Learning Disabilities has posted numerous powerpoints and papers that were presented at this symposium by many of the leaders in the field.

RtI: Latest News and Resources

www.unomaha.edu/psych/schoolrti.php

The Department of Psychology at the University of Nebraska/Omaha maintains this site and provides hyperlinks to excellent research articles on RtI.

RtI: Implementation in Schools

www.schwablearning.org/articles.asp?r=1057&f=search

This website developed by SchwabLearning.org provides a description of important features of RtI in a question/answer format and how this approach might impact school practices and parent involvement. This is an excellent resource when describing RtI to parents.