It seems that as soon I start to understand something, the questions begin to pour into my mind. Today I followed around Mr. H. I went to the school site I will be working at with him, met the staff and saw our tiny office. Although it is a tiny space - it is perfectly placed. It is situated right in between the SDC and RSP rooms. That will make it really easy to get kids in that you need to speak with. We also went over the tests that they have there, and how he qualifies kids for SLD without cognitive testing using RTI. With that he gave me a brief over view of RTI (again) and I looked over some of the data that Fairfield collected last year regarding their reading interventions. The data is so impressive. It appears that most of the children who receive intervention services do make impressive gains and are eventually exit from the intervention.
My new question was, what happens to the kids after they are exited from tier 2 to 1? Do they then progress as well as their peers? Are they able to keep up then? Or do they revert back to what previous levels? If they needed extra help before - I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see them require intervention services again... I think this could be another good possibility for my Thesis project! So many possibilities. Since they have already collected data pre intervention and during the intervention, I could follow up with some of the kids who have been exited and see how they are keeping up this year. An amazingly easy ABA design. I really like this idea, I will have to think about it some more.
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