Response to Intervention: Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Implementation

Abstract

This chapter provides an overview of some of the conceptual and foundation features of response to intervention (RTI). The concept of RTI is an extension of public health service models and many of the practices of problem-solving consultation (and especially behavioral psychology) as applied to individual children. Yet, in adoption and extension of some of these early paradigms of problem solving there are some thorny issues that remain to be resolved and which are highlighted here. And, with the new features of RTI applied within a prevention framework, new challenges will emerge, especially as these models are applied in special education decision-making processes in practice. In many cases, the issues that emerge as primary considerations in implementation of RTI remain to be addressed in research. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)(chapter)