RTI: Educators’ and Specialists’ Role and Responsibilities

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This course identifies the roles and responsibilities of all the RTI stakeholders. Under the RTI model, general educators and paraprofessionals become the primary tier 1 level interventionists by identifying and implementing processing, reading, math, spelling, written language, spoken language, and behavior interventions. Special educators, speech therapists, and occupational therapists become the tier 2 and 3 level interventionists. The school psychologist’s role changes from the traditional role of tester to identifier of student intervention needs. In addition, the school psychologist determines the formal referral to special education if RTI fails.