Implementing Response-to-Intervention to Address the Needs of English-Language Learners

<p>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. <i>Implementing Response-to-Intervention to Address the Needs of English-Language Learners</i> increases school psychologists’ knowledge of intervention strategies related to ELLs through its examination of the challenges associated with evaluating ELLs and by 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.</p>