A Resource for Designing and Implementing Intervention Programs for At-Risk Learners This authoritative resource provides step-by-step procedures for planning, selecting, and tailoring interventions for at-risk learners with a unique focus on how to individualize interventions using actual case examples. In addition, this volume offers guidelines for gathering and interpreting data in a manner that assists in identifying targets for intervention and rich discussion and information relating to specific academic, cognitive, and behavioral manifestations of students with learning difficulties in reading, math, writing, and oral language. Practitioners will also recognize and learn how to intervene with students from underserved and mis-served populations who are at risk for learning failure including English-language learners and students from impoverished environments. Each chapter describes how specific difficulties interfere with classroom tasks and explain how to select, modify, or otherwise tailor an intervention based on that information. As with all volumes in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, this volume includes callout boxes highlighting key concepts, extensive illustrative material, and test questions. The companion CD-ROM provides additional worksheets, case studies, and handouts.

A Resource for Designing and Implementing Intervention Programsfor At-Risk LearnersThis authoritative resource provides step-by-step procedures forplanning, selecting, and tailoring interventions for at-risklearners with a unique focus on how to individualize interventionsusing actual case examples. In addition, this volume offersguidelines for gathering and interpreting data in a manner thatassists in identifying targets for intervention and rich discussionand information relating to specific academic, cognitive, andbehavioral manifestations of students with learning difficulties inreading, math, writing, and oral language. Practitioners will alsorecognize and learn how to intervene with students from underservedand mis-served populations who are at risk for learning failureincluding English-language learners and students from impoverishedenvironments.Each chapter describes how specific difficulties interfere withclassroom tasks and explain how to select, modify, or otherwisetailor an intervention based on that information. As with allvolumes in the Essentials of Psychological Assessmentseries, this volume includes callout boxes highlighting keyconcepts, extensive illustrative material, and test questions. Thecompanion CD-ROM provides additional worksheets, case studies, andhandouts.

Series Preface xiAcknowledgments xiiiPart I Intervention Planning: Diagnostic Assessment, Responseto Intervention, and Consultation 1One A Systematic Method of Analyzing Assessment Results forTailoring Interventions (SMAARTI) 3Jennifer T. Mascolo, Dawn P. Flanagan, Vincent C.AlfonsoTwo Essentials of a Tiered Intervention System to Support UniqueLearners: Recommendationsfrom Research and Practice 56Devin M. Kearns, Christopher J. Lemons, Douglas Fuchs, Lynn S.FuchsThree Home-School Collaboration for Intervention Planning92Michael J. Coutts, Susan M. Sheridan, Tara M. Sjuts, Tyler E.SmithPart II Selecting and Tailoring Interventions andIndividualizing Instruction 121Four Tailoring Interventions in Reading Based on EmergingResearch on the Development of Word Recognition Skills 123David KilpatrickFive Selecting and Tailoring Interventions for Students WithReading Difficulties 151Steven G. FeiferSix Selecting and Tailoring Interventions for Students WithMathematics Difficulties 178Diane Pedrotty Bryant, Kathleen Hughes Pfannenstiel, Brian R.Bryant, Jessica Hunt, Mikyung ShinSeven Selecting and Tailoring Interventions for Students WithWritten Expression Difficulties 204Tanya Santangelo, Steve GrahamEight Individualizing Instruction for Students With Oral andWritten Language Difficulties 231Virginia W. Berninger, Jasmin NiedoPart III Interventions for Underserved and Mis-servedPopulations 265Nine Interventions for English Learners With LearningDifficulties 267Julie Esparza Brown, Samuel O. OrtizTen Interventions for Students With Executive Skills andExecutive Functions Difficulties 314George McCloskey, Caitlin Gilmartin, Betti StancoVitanzaEleven Interventions for Students With Memory Difficulties357Milton J. DehnTwelve Interventions for Students With Lecture Note-TakingDifficulties 387Stephen T. Peverly, Gardith Marcelin, Michael KernThirteen Interventions for Students from Low ResourceEnvironments: The Abecedarian Approach 415Craig T. Ramey, Joseph J. Sparling, Sharon L. RameyAbout the Editors 449Index 451About the CD-ROM 479