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Beckee:
Absolutely - all children should be monitored for educational problems and have appropriate intervention provided as needed, without waiting for them to fail. That is the spirit of RTI. My point was that provision of special education services, accommodations, modifications, and supports for children with disabilities that affect educational functioning other than suspected specific learning disabilities should not be denied or delayed because the child has not completed a phase two RTI process. The RTI process is not part of determining whether a child has an impairment in any of the other disability categories, but many LEAs are trying to use RTI in this way. RTI is, rightly, part of the process for determining whether a child has a specific learning disability - in this case, it allows you to at least begin to answer the question "Is the problem in performance a problem with learning or a problem with the prior teaching?"