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From: Nina Reeves
Date: 14 Oct 2012
Time: 22:38:54 -0500
Remote Name: 173.173.94.35
Hi Nancy; I chime in with Scott in thanking you for kind words... In regards to RTI, I have had a lot of experience dealing with the confusion over it; both at my own districts and across the country! We don't use any RTI for school age students who stutter. The underlying rationale for RTI is to keep children who do not need specialized instruction (special education) out of the SE rolls. The guidelines often mention that (paraphrase) if a child presents with an OBVIOUS disorder, then RTI is not appropriate. As you can imagine, I feel that school age stuttering is an obvious disorder. Nothing we do for a sort (tiered) bit of time is going to "resolve" stuttering in a school age child. So...no RTI for school age stuttering. Right to referral team. As for preschool, there could be reasons for moving in a different direction, but that age range is under R & R...and that is a whole different can of worms, eh? Again, thanks for writing Nancy. See you soon!