Essentials of Response to Intervention

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"This jewel of a book truly lives up to its title providing theessential information needed for school-based practitioners abouthow to implement Response To Intervention (RTI) usingresearch-based practices. While there are many books on RTI, thisone by VanDerHeyden and Burns provides all of the essentialinformation to actually implement RTI at the district, school,class, and student level." --Sharon Vaughn, Ph.D., Executive Director, MeadowsCenter for Preventing Educational Risk H.E.Hartfelder/SouthlandCorp Regents Chair, University of Texas at Austin "VanderHeyden and Burns deftly explore the history of RtI andthen provide a comprehensive guide to its implementation.Complexities and challenges are addressed head-on with concretesolutions and recommendations for educators. Readers will come awaywith a robust understanding of RtI, as well as encouragement to putit into practice so that all students can benefit." --James H Wendorf, Executive Director, National Centerfor Learning Disabilities "A practical guide for education professionals and othersinterested in RTI models, Essentials of Response toIntervention is a thorough review of the issues involved inthese approaches to assessment and service delivery in schools. Thebook contains many useful appendices for assessment and formonitoring of intervention integrity that can be used for RTIimplementation. The authors do a marvelous job of tying practicalimplementation issues to the available research base supporting RTImodels, and also clearly highlight areas of difficulty withimplementation and limitations of RTI approaches to theidentification of children for special education services." --Jack M. Fletcher, Ph.D., Department of Psychology,University of Houston Texas Medical Center Annex "This is an incredibly rich resource. Burns and VanDerHeydenhave managed to put into one small volume, the research, practice,successes, and challenges of implemented RTI models. They offerpractical and clear examples, support their presentation with arich understanding of the literature, and offer a resource thatwill be beneficial long into the future. The volume offers alleducators associated with RTI implementation a "one-stop shop" ofinformation and practical knowledge on RTI implementation. Inaddition, the volume will become required reading for pre-servicetraining of all educational personnel. Thank you, Matt and Amandafor this incredible addition to an already too crowded field ofresources on RTI." --Edward S. Shapiro, Ph.D., Director, Center forPromoting Research to Practice Professor, School Psychology LehighUniversity, Bethlehem, PA