Responsiveness-to-Intervention Symposium

December 4-5, 2003 * Kansas City, Missouri

The National Research Center on Learning Disabilities sponsored this two-day symposium focusing on responsiveness-to-intervention (RTI) issues. The speakers, discussants, and participants assembled represented the wide diversity of individuals with a vested interest in LD determination issues. Advocates, instructional staff, researchers, and state-level education officials brought their collective and considerable expertise to the discussions.

Debra M. Kamps of the Juniper Gardens Children's Project at the University of Kansas presented this invited paper during the symposium. For links to other papers and materials, visit the main Symposium 2003 page.

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Debra Kamps

Debra Kamps is senior scientist with the Juniper Gardens Children's Project, at the University of Kansas. Her current work includes the areas of early reading and schoolwide, longitudinal models of prevention and intervention. Federally sponsored research includes prevention of behavior disorders, social and peer mediated interventions for children with autism, and ecobehavioral models of classroom observation assessment. Kamps has published over 60 articles and book chapters in the area of school-based interventions. In July, she participated in a panel presentation on Research on responsiveness-to-intervention as early intervention and LD identification: What we know and don't know at the OSEP Research Director's Annual Meeting.

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The symposium was made possible by the support of the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs. Renee Bradley, Project Officer. Opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the position of the U.S. Department of Education.