RTI Seminar Set for May 4
ASHA will host a telephone seminar on "Responsiveness-to-Intervention: An Alternative to Special Education" on May 4 from 3-5 p.m. Eastern time. The last day to register for the live broadcast is noon on April 27. Presenters Judy Montgomery, professor of special education and literacy at Chapman University in Orange, CA, and Barbara Moore-Brown, director of Special and Alternative Education in the El Rancho Unified School District, Pico Rivera, CA, will explain how SLPs can work as part of an RTI team, with special focus on a language/literacy team. Results of a two-year study in a large, culturally diverse urban school district will be shared.
Capacity Building Forum
"Building Capacity to Deliver Multi-Tiered Reading Intervention in Public Schools and the Role of Response to Intervention" was the topic of a forum sponsored by the International Dyslexia Association, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. Co-sponsors included ASHA and the Council for Exceptional Children/Division of Learning Disabilities, the National Center for Learning Disabilities, and the National Research Center on Learning Disabilities. A total of 33 organizations participated in the forum which included brainstorming teams that focused on issues related to the social marketing of educational change and organizational roles in RTI capacity building. Visit www.interdys.org/html/forumsummary.htm for an executive summary of the meeting.
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