RTI Action Network - Tier 3 - Intensive, Individual Interventions

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"We started Response to Intervention (RTI) as a way to meet the many needs of our students." [Read full story »]

— Linda Dittmer
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Are there lists of research-based interventions for secondary and tertiary levels of both RTI and Positive Behavior Support (PBS)?

Response from George Sugai, Ph.D.: RTI is a larger problem solving framework for improving decision making based on student responsiveness to intervention for both academic and social behavior. On the behavior side of RTI, positive behavior support provides an organizational structure for establishing a continuum of behavioral interventions for all students...[read full response]

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Tier 3 - Intensive, Individual Interventions

In the opening article for this section, Ruth Ervin of the University of British Columbia provides a general overview of special considerations pertaining to the provision of Tier 3 prevention and intervention efforts. Specifically, this article describes a self-questioning process to guide decision making at Tier 3. For each step of the process, references to additional resources are provided for further exploration.

Read "Considering Tier 3 Within a Response-to-Intervention Model"

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