Week 5: IRIS 2
1.
What are the two options for identifying students with learning disabilities? Briefly
summarize each one.
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IQ-Achievement Discrepancy Model is where the traditional method used to determine
whether a student has a learning disability and needs special education services.
However,
students with learning disabilities, however, exhibit unexpected learning
difficulties because their level of achievement is far below what is predicted by their IQ
scores.
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Response-to-Intervention (RTI) Approach is where struggling students’ skills are
monitored to determine whether they show adequate growth following the
implementation of high-quality instruction. Students who do not respond adequately to
research-validated instruction in the general education classroom are provided with
increasingly intensive and validated interventions. Students’ progress in skill areas of
concern is monitored frequently (e.g., weekly), and the data collected inform subsequent
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