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The Wrights Law site has everything you need to now about IDEA 2004, and how it ties into to **Response** **to** **Intervention** (RT) and new ways to identify students with Specific Learning Disabilities. Parents, educators, advocates, and attorneys come to this site for accurate, reliable information about special education law, education law, and advocacy for children with disabilities. Legal questions and their answers for special education teachers and administrators. [|www.wrightslaw.com]

The Florida Center for Reading Research. This site gives basic research on reading, reading growth, reading assessment, and reading instruction that will contribute to the scientific knowledge of reading to benefit students of all ages and abilities. [|www.fcrr.org]

Oregon Reading First Center. This website is designed to provide information, technology, and resources to teachers, administrators, and parents focusing on the big ideas of early literacy. The website includes definitions and descriptions of the research and theories behind each of the big ideas, describes how to assess the big ideas, and provides information on how to teach the big ideas in your classroom. []

Texas Center for Reading and Language Arts This site promotes academic success for students by improving education outcomes and providing research to teachers. [|www.texasreading.org]

Intervention Central. Intervention Central is committed to the goal of making quality Response-to-Intervention resources available to educators at no cost--//especially// in these times of tight school budgets. The site was created in 2000 by Jim Wright, a school psychologist and school administrator from Central New York. [|www.interventioncentral.org]

National Center for Learning Disabilities. Their mission is to ensure that the 15 million children, adolescents, and adults with learning disabilities have every opportunity to succeed in school, work, and life. [|www.ncld.org]

National Association of School Pyschologists. Resources and links to help all children in school with a variety of issues and learning problems [] Illinois ASPIRE Illinois ASPIRE (Alliance for School-based Problem-solving and Intervention Resources in Education) is a coordinated, regionalized system of personnel development designed to increase the capacity of school districts to provide early intervening services, aligned with the general education curriculum, to at-risk students and students with disabilities. This system consists of four regional Illinois ASPIRE Centers established by the Illinois State Board of Education, and each is responsible for activities to support the following project objectives:. [|www.illinoisaspire.org/ .]

National Center On Response to Intervention. **Response to intervention** integrates assessment and intervention within a multi-level prevention system to maximize student achievement and to reduce behavior problems. This site provides multiple resources on RtI for teachers and administrators. phttp://www.rti4success.org/

National Research Center on Learning Disabilities. NRCLD's goal is to help educators, policymakers, and parents understand the complexity and importance of making sound decisions regarding whether a child has a specific learning disability. Our research in this area--including studies of the role of and best practices associated with responsiveness to intervention--is the foundation underlying all of the materials available on this site. []