3 - Tier Reading Model. This project is funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, Principal Investigator: Sharon Vaughn
Co-Principal Investigators: Sylvia Linan-Thompson, Batya Elbaum. Web site is: http://www.texasreading.org/3tier

A New Era: Revitalizing Special Education for Children and their Families, President's Commission on Excellence in Special Education available at: http://www.ed.gov/inits/commissionsboards/whspecialeducation/index.html

And Miles to Go...: State SLD Requirements and Authoritative Recommendations (report from the National Research Center on Learning Disabilities, August 2003) available at: http://nrcld.org/html/research/states/index.html

National Reading Panel (2000). Report on research findings of what works in early reading instruction. Available at: www.nationalreadingpanel.org

National Research Council - Committee on Scientific Research in Education (2002). Available at: www.nap.edu/catalog/10236.html

National Research Council: Minority Overrepresentation in Special Education (2002), available at: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10128.html?se_side

National Research Council: Preventing Reading Disabilities in Young Children (1998). Available at: www.nap.edu/catalog/6023.html?se_side

OSEP: Learning Disabilities Summit (2001). Report on LD Summit held by the Office of Special Education Programs, available at: www.air.org/ldsummit

Rand "Achievement for All Report" (2001), available at http://www.rand.org/multi/achievementforall/reading/readreport.html

Rethinking Learning Disabilities, Chapter 12 of Rethinking Special Education for a New Century, available at: http://www.edexcellence.net/library/special_ed/special_ed_ch12.pdf

Specific Learning Disabilities: Current Approaches to Identification and Proposals for Change. This is a document from the National Association of State Directors of Special Education, available at: http://www.nasdse.org/publications/specific_learning_disability.pdf

Specific Learning Disabilities: finding Common Ground. Statement from national Learning Disabilities Roundtable, available at http://ld.org/advocacy/LDroundtable.cfm

U. S. House of Representatives hearing on "Learning Disabilities and Early Intervention Strategies: How to Reform the Special Education Referral and Identification Process" June 6, 2002, available at http://edworkforce.house.gov/hearings/107th/edr/idea6602/wl6602.htm

Mountain Plains Regional Resource Center Newsletter on RTI
http://www.wested.org/nerrc/Acrobat%20Files/MPRRCrti.pdf