Essentials of Planning, Selecting, and Tailoring Interventions for Unique Learners

This authoritative resource provides step-by-step procedures for planning, selecting, and tailoring interventions for at-risk learners with a unique focus on how to individualise interventions using actual case examples. In addition, this volume offers guidelines for gathering and interpreting data in a manner that assists in identifying targets for intervention and rich discussion and information relating to specific academic, cognitive, and behavioural manifestations of students with learning difficulties in reading, math, writing, and oral language. Practitioners will also recognise and learn how to intervene with students from under served and mis-served populations who are at risk for learning failure including English-language learners and students from impoverished environments.

Each chapter describes how specific difficulties interfere with classroom tasks and explain how to select, modify, or otherwise tailor an intervention based on that information. As with all volumes in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, this volume includes callout boxes highlighting key concepts, extensive illustrative material, and test questions. The companion CD-ROM provides additional worksheets, case studies, and handouts.

Table of Contents

Part I Intervention Planning: Diagnostic Assessment, Response to Intervention, and Consultation

1. A Systematic Method of Analyzing Assessment Results for Tailoring Interventions (SMAARTI) - Jennifer T. Mascolo, Dawn P. Flanagan, Vincent C. Alfonso
2. Essentials of a Tiered Intervention System to Support Unique Learners: Recommendations from Research and Practice - Devin M. Kearns, Christopher J. Lemons, Douglas Fuchs, Lynn S. Fuchs
3. Home-School Collaboration for Intervention Planning - Michael J. Coutts, Susan M. Sheridan, Tara M. Sjuts, Tyler E. Smith

Part II Selecting and Tailoring Interventions and Individualizing Instruction

4. Tailoring Interventions in Reading Based on Emerging Research on the Development of Word Recognition Skills - David Kilpatrick
5. Selecting and Tailoring Interventions for Students With Reading Difficulties - Steven G. Feifer
6. Selecting and Tailoring Interventions for Students With Mathematics Difficulties - Diane Pedrotty Bryant, Kathleen Hughes Pfannenstiel, Brian R. Bryant, Jessica Hunt, Mikyung Shin
7. Selecting and Tailoring Interventions for Students With Written Expression Difficulties - Tanya Santangelo, Steve Graham
8. Individualizing Instruction for Students With Oral and Written Language Difficulties - Virginia W. Berninger, Jasmin Niedo

Part III Interventions for Underserved and Mis-served Populations

9. Interventions for English Learners With Learning Difficulties - Julie Esparza Brown, Samuel O. Ortiz
10. Interventions for Students With Executive Skills and Executive Functions Difficulties - George McCloskey, Caitlin Gilmartin, Betti Stanco Vitanza
11. Interventions for Students With Memory Difficulties - Milton J. Dehn
12. Interventions for Students With Lecture NoteÐTaking Difficulties - Stephen T. Peverly, Gardith Marcelin, Michael Kern
13. Interventions for Students from Low Resource Environments: The Abecedarian Approach - Craig T. Ramey, Joseph J. Sparling, Sharon L. Ramey

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