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

By Holly S. Hudspath-Niemi and Mary Lou Conroy

Book Overview

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 Learners 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415621941
• ISBN13: 9780415621946
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"