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.

Table of Contents:
Series Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Part I Intervention Planning: Diagnostic Assessment, Response to Intervention, and Consultation 1 One A Systematic Method of Analyzing Assessment Results for Tailoring Interventions (SMAARTI) 3 Jennifer T. Mascolo, Dawn P. Flanagan, Vincent C. Alfonso Two Essentials of a Tiered Intervention System to Support Unique Learners: Recommendations from Research and Practice 56 Devin M. Kearns, Christopher J. Lemons, Douglas Fuchs, Lynn S. Fuchs Three Home-School Collaboration for Intervention Planning 92 Michael J. Coutts, Susan M. Sheridan, Tara M. Sjuts, Tyler E. Smith Part II Selecting and Tailoring Interventions and Individualizing Instruction 121 Four Tailoring Interventions in Reading Based on Emerging Research on the Development of Word Recognition Skills 123 David Kilpatrick Five Selecting and Tailoring Interventions for Students With Reading Difficulties 151 Steven G. Feifer Six Selecting and Tailoring Interventions for Students With Mathematics Difficulties 178 Diane Pedrotty Bryant, Kathleen Hughes Pfannenstiel, Brian R. Bryant, Jessica Hunt, Mikyung Shin Seven Selecting and Tailoring Interventions for Students With Written Expression Difficulties 204 Tanya Santangelo, Steve Graham Eight Individualizing Instruction for Students With Oral and Written Language Difficulties 231 Virginia W. Berninger, Jasmin Niedo Part III Interventions for Underserved and Mis-served Populations 265 Nine Interventions for English Learners With Learning Difficulties 267 Julie Esparza Brown, Samuel O. Ortiz Ten Interventions for Students With Executive Skills and Executive Functions Difficulties 314 George McCloskey, Caitlin Gilmartin, Betti Stanco Vitanza Eleven Interventions for Students With Memory Difficulties 357 Milton J. Dehn Twelve Interventions for Students With Lecture Note–Taking Difficulties 387 Stephen T. Peverly, Gardith Marcelin, Michael Kern Thirteen Interventions for Students from Low Resource Environments: The Abecedarian Approach 415 Craig T. Ramey, Joseph J. Sparling, Sharon L. Ramey About the Editors 449 Index 451 About the CD-ROM 479