Presentations by NRCLD staff members

Council for Exceptional Children Conference (April 2008)

Donald D. Deshler Response to Intervention: Moving from Research to Implementation (ppt).

Council for Exceptional Children Conference (April 2008)

Doug Fuchs Response to Intervention: The Context for Reforming General and Special Education (ppt).

Response to Intervention Summit (December 2007)

Donald D. Deshler and Joseph F. Kovaleski Secondary Applications of RTI: a Guided Discussion (ppt). Notes from Presentation (pdf).

Pacific Coast Research Conference (2007)

Doug Fuchs, Don Compton, and Lynn Fuchs Innovations in Identifying Learning Disabilities Using Responsiveness to Instruction. (pdf)

Parent Technical Assistance Centers (2007)

Daryl Mellard What Do We Mean by "Scientifically-Based Instruction"? (pdf)

Council for Exceptional Children (2007)

Douglas Fuchs RTI and Identification of Children with Learning Disabilities. (pdf)
Charlie Hughes and Don Deshler RTI in Middle and High School: How Will the Game Play Out? (pdf)
Lynn S. Fuchs and Douglas Fuchs So How Do We Tell Whether RTI Is Working? (pdf)

National Association of School Psychologists annual conference (March 2007)

Daryl Mellard Responsiveness to Intervention: Research, Policy and Implementation (pdf)

OSEP Part B Regulations Regional Implementation Meetings (January 30-31, February 12-13, 15-16, 2007)

National Association of School Psychologists annual conference (March-April 2006)

Daryl Mellard, Donald Compton, Douglas Fuchs Integrating IDEA Provisions with School Reform: Early Intervening Services (EIS) and Responsiveness to Intervention (RTI) (pdf)
Douglas Fuchs, Donald L. Compton, Lynn S. Fuchs, Joan D. Bryant The Prevention and Identification of Reading Disability (pdf)
Don Compton, Doug Fuchs, Lynn Fuchs, Joan Bryant Selecting At-Risk Readers in First Grade for Early Intervention: A Two-Year Longitudinal Study of Decision Rules and Procedures (pdf)
Kim Grant, Scott Showalter, Daryl Mellard, Sonja de Boer, Barbara Starrett Student Poster: School Psychologists' Perspectives on LD Determination Practices and Student Characteristics (pdf)
Student Poster Handout

Council for Exceptional Children (2006)

SLD Identification: What We Know...What We Don't Know

Daryl Mellard, SLD Identification: What We Know....What We Don't Know (pdf)
Douglas Fuchs, The Prevention and Identification of Reading DIsability (pdf)

Strand: Responsiveness to Instruction: What, Why, and How Valid Is It?

Session 1: Policy, Advocacy, and Overview of Strand

Donald Deshler, The National Research Center on Learning Disabilities (pdf)
Mary Beth Klotz, LD Roundtable's Role in the Formulation of Policy & References (pdf) |Reference List (pdf)
Edward Kame'enui, Response to Intervention: Ode to George Fox (pdf)
Louis Danielson, OSEP LD Initiative (pdf)

Session 2: RTI: Screening and Assessment

Deborah Speece, RTI: Screening for Secondary Intervention (pdf)
Pamela Stecker, RTI: Progress Monitoring (pdf)

Session 3: RTI: Intervention and Scaling Up

Donald Deshler and Daryl Mellard, RTI and Scaling Up (pdf)

Session 4: What Research Says About RTI as Early Intervention and as a method of LD Identification

Douglas Fuchs, Applying Progress Monitoring to RTI Prevention and Identification (pdf)
Lynn Fuchs, The Prevention and Identification of Math Disability Using RTI (pdf)
Deborah Simmons and Sara McDonagh, Principles, Profiles, and Promises of Shared Book Reading: Developing Vocabulary and Oral Comprehension in Young Children (pdf)

2005

Council for Exceptional Children (April 2005)
Download PowerPoint: Responsiveness-to-Intervention: A New Method of Identifying Students with Disabilities

National Association of School Psychologists (March-April 2005)
Download PowerPoint: National Research Center on Learning Disabilities

2004

International Dyslexia Association (December 2004)
Download PowerPoint: The Scaling of Innovations: Factors to Consider Beyond Professional Development