Assignment Task: Response to Intervention (RTI) is a strategy that utilizes a tiered system for providing levels of support to students based on their individual needs. While the educator offers the support, depending on a child's needs, collaboration among various education professionals will be needed to ensure the child receives the right support level. In this discussion you will look at RTI as a strategy to support children with speech, language, hearing, or visual impairments.
To prepare:
Read Chapter 6: Students With Speech and Language Impairments.
Read Chapter 10: Students With Hearing Impairment, Deafness, Visual Impairment, Blindness, and Deaf-Blindness.
Read Responsiveness to Intervention: New Roles for Speech-Language Pathologists.
Read RTI: What It Is, What It Isn't.
Review the Writing Open-Ended Questions.
In your initial post:
1. Explain the role collaboration with other professionals will play when implementing an RTI framework to support children with speech, language, hearing, or visual impairments.
2. Discuss how you would keep families informed about a child's current level of RTI support.
3. Propose an open-ended question related to RTI as an evidence-based strategy to support children with exceptionalities in an inclusive setting.