Response to Intervention (RTI) is a strategy that utilizes a tiered system for providing levels of support to students based on their individual needs. While the educator offers the support, depending on a child’s needs, collaboration among various education professionals will be needed to ensure the child receives the right support level. In this discussion you will look at RTI as a strategy to support children with speech, language, hearing, or visual impairments.

To prepare,

• Read Chapter 6: Students With Speech and Language Impairments.
• Read Chapter 10: Students With Hearing Impairment, Deafness, Visual Impairment, Blindness, and Deaf-Blindness.
• Read Responsiveness to Intervention: New Roles for Speech-Language PathologistsLinks to an external site..
• Read RTI: What It Is, What It Isn’tLinks to an external site..
• Review the Writing Open-Ended QuestionsLinks to an external site. resource.

In your initial post,

• Explain the role collaboration with other professionals will play when implementing an RTI framework to support children with speech, language, hearing, or visual impairments.
• Discuss how you would keep families informed about a child’s current level of RTI support.
• Propose an open-ended question related to RTI as an evidence-based strategy to support children with exceptionalities in an inclusive setting.