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ASHA has engaged in two major initiatives related to responsiveness-to-intervention for students with specific learning disabilities:
- National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities (NJCLD). ASHA is one of 11 national member organizations involved in developing a document on RTI that includes information on the structure and components of an RTI program; implementation issues; and current research. This document is being reviewed by the NJCLD member organizations and will be available in 2005.
- LD Roundtable. ASHA is one of 14 national organizations that participate in the LD Roundtable which has reviewed the sections of IDEA '04 that relate to determining if a child has a specific learning disability. The LD Roundtable also has developed language for proposed regulations for determining if a child has a specific learning disability including the criteria for determining the existence of a specific learning disability if a scientific, research-based intervention process is used. This proposed language will be submitted to the U.S. Department of Education for use as they develop the regulations related to IDEA '04.
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