The best person to contact is the ESE Director at your son's school. That is who I direct all questions to or go to the county school board's ESE Dept. My son's school has after school tutoring...but at his daycare they tutor him there 1:1.
It's supposed to replace the old discrepency model where a child was considered to have a learning disability if there was a significant discrepency between the child's IQ and his academic achievement. HOwever, NCLB theorized that that put too many children in spec ed who probably just never got the right teaching methods, so now there's a system where a child IS given a teaching method that is scientifically proven to work for what is supposed to be the child's problem (decoding in reading, for example). Then the child's progress (response to intervention) is very carefully followed. IF the child STILL makes less-than-expected progress, then the child will be considered to be LD.
I'm not really sure I understand RTI - Response to Intervention. My son is currently an ESE student for reading and math, he really needs more help with reading comprehension...wouldn't the school need to provide RTI and have tutoring available for him before or afterschool? Maybe I'm not understanding this entirely...can someone help?
Thanks!