Assessment of Learning Disabilities and Response to Intervention (RTI) Approach: Effect of Response to Intervention (RTI) on Learning Disabilities of Primary and Secondary School Students’ Assessment

Abstract

The study is to examine the evidence from a multistage study with primary and secondary school students regarding reading difficulties and to make effective Response to intervention based treatment plan to modify those problems so that student, teachers and parents know the students learning disabilities and difficulties and to make them able to learn in better way in his educational life 320 students age ranges from 8 to 14, calculated mean for total sample is  11.15 years, Response to Intervention (RTI)  strategy were used for learning disabilities modification and treatment of students with RTI three tier interventions had been used, with structured curriculum based measurement(CBM) of oral, spelling and writing skills by pre and posttest study design i.e. Experimental and Control conditions. Result indicated that RTI is an effective treatment plan for modification and altering in students with learning disabilities. The results are like in Pre and post Experimental performance on Oral skills are (M,-1.03 SD, 2.0), p, (29) degree of freedom is 29 for all and in spelling skills result were (M,-1.8, SD.2.5) and for writing skills (M-1.96, SD, 2.5).The result revealed that there is positively significant (P .01) effect of RTI on Students performance with three tier/stage interventions.

Key words: Intensive intervention, RTI (response to intervention), LD (learning disabilities).