Group items tagged intervention - Special Ed in the 21st Century

RTI Action Network - 0 views

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shared by Peggy George on 24 Jul 08 - Cached

Peggy George on 24 Jul 08

What is RTI? Response to Intervention (RTI) is a multi-tiered approach to help struggling learners. Students' progress is closely monitored at each stage of intervention to determine the need for further research-based instruction and/or intervention in general education, in special education, or both.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">What is RTI? Response to Intervention (RTI) is a multi-tiered approach to help struggling learners. Students' progress is closely monitored at each stage of intervention to determine the need for further research-based instruction and/or intervention in general education, in special education, or both. </div>

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Peggy George on 24 Jul 08

Response to Intervention could easily be implemented through the use of web 2.0 tools. Maybe we should start a discussion forum on RTI and have people contribute specific ways/tools that could be used.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Response to Intervention could easily be implemented through the use of web 2.0 tools. Maybe we should start a discussion forum on RTI and have people contribute specific ways/tools that could be used.</div>

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The Therapy Crisis Intervention System - 1 views

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shared by Eric Sailers on 25 May 10 - No Cached

Eric Sailers on 25 May 10

Developed at Cornell University, the guide provides a crisis prevention and management system that reduces the need to rely on high-risk interventions.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Developed at Cornell University, the guide provides a crisis prevention and management system that reduces the need to rely on high-risk interventions.</div>

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Study: Inexpensive Games Improve Children's Reasoning Ability » Spotlight - 2 views

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shared by Tero Toivanen on 22 Dec 09 - Cached

Perhaps the most important finding in Bunge’s data is that the training helped the neediest kids the most. The farther down a child started on the rankings, the quicker and greater was his cognitive improvement. This is extremely rare in education interventions. Usually, smart kids benefit most, and the kids who struggle at the beginning only fall farther behind.
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Tero Toivanen on 22 Dec 09

Perhaps the most important finding in Bunge's data is that the training helped the neediest kids the most. The farther down a child started on the rankings, the quicker and greater was his cognitive improvement. This is extremely rare in education interventions. Usually, smart kids benefit most, and the kids who struggle at the beginning only fall farther behind.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Perhaps the most important finding in Bunge's data is that the training helped the neediest kids the most. The farther down a child started on the rankings, the quicker and greater was his cognitive improvement. This is extremely rare in education interventions. Usually, smart kids benefit most, and the kids who struggle at the beginning only fall farther behind.</div>

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Music Improves Brain Function -- Signs of the Times News - 2 views

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shared by Tero Toivanen on 25 Jan 10 - Cached

Harvard University researcher Gottfried Schlaug has also studied the cognitive effects of musical training. Schlaug and his colleagues found a correlation between early-childhood training in music and enhanced motor and auditory skills as well as improvements in verbal ability and nonverbal reasoning.
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"[The findings] suggest that a music intervention that strengthens the basic auditory music perception skills of children with dyslexia may also remediate some of their language deficits."
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Shahin said that when a person listens to sounds over and over, especially for something as harmonic or meaningful as music and speech, the appropriate neurons get reinforced in responding preferentially to those sounds compared to other sounds.
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Shahin's main findings are that the changes triggered by listening to musical sound increases with age and the greatest increase occur between age 10 and 13. This most likely indicates this as being a sensitive period for music and speech acquisition.
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Tero Toivanen on 25 Jan 10

"[The findings] suggest that a music intervention that strengthens the basic auditory music perception skills of children with dyslexia may also remediate some of their language deficits."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"[The findings] suggest that a music intervention that strengthens the basic auditory music perception skills of children with dyslexia may also remediate some of their language deficits."</div>

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istation |Reading - 0 views

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shared by Kathleen N on 05 Aug 09 - Cached

Kathleen N on 05 Aug 09

istation Reading What is istation Reading? istation Reading is a data-driven reading intervention program for students in Pre-K through Grade 5. istation Reading promotes reading acceleration and progress through a high-interest online interactive curriculum.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">istation Reading What is istation Reading? istation Reading is a data-driven reading intervention program for students in Pre-K through Grade 5. istation Reading promotes reading acceleration and progress through a high-interest online interactive curriculum.</div>

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Intervention Central: Your Site for Response To Intervention Resources - 0 views

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shared by Christine Southard on 26 Mar 09 - Cached

Christine Southard on 26 Mar 09

Jim Wright Site

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PBIS Az : Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports - 7 views

Reflect on your classroom culture and environment; consider antecedents leading up to a students disruptions, can these two forces be aligned to improve the quality of time spent together? This si...

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