Implementing Response-to-Intervention to Address the Needs of English-Language Learners: Instructional Strategies and Assessment Tools for School Psychologists

by Hudspath-Niemi; Holly S.

• ISBN13: 9780415621946
• ISBN10: 0415621941
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781136257124
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2013-01-25
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

There is considerable concern surrounding the complex issue of how to meet the learning needs of English-language learners within general and special education programs. Implementing Response-to-Intervention to Address the Needs of English-Language Learnersincreases school psychologists' knowledge of intervention strategies related to ELLs, through examining the challenges associated with evaluating ELLs and providing a collaborative framework to enhance educational identification and placement in special education. It accomplishes this by incorporating research-based intervention approaches for ELLs and offering a comprehensive guide to the processes and tools that school teams should consider when utilizing a response to intervention model to support the academic and behavioral needs of ELLs. With a strong focus on alternative assessment, collaboration, and parental involvement, this volume in a definitive touchstone in the quest to provide culturally responsive pedagogy and appropriate adapted classroom instruction for English-language learners of various proficiency levels.