This page is intended to help educators and other building-based personnel find tools and resources to support students with intensive needs, including students with disabilities and those who have not responded to validated intervention programs delivered with fidelity. General and special education teachers, interventionists, school psychologists, school counselors, and others may find this information helpful.
Learn the basics of intensive intervention
Dig deeper into the 5 steps of DBI
Get an overview of the DBI process
Hear from teachers, leaders, students, and parents about the value of intensive intervention.
Identify potential ways to intensify intervention based on your students’ needs
Using the learning hierarchy to intensify intervention
Learn about academic progress monitoring
Learn about behavior progress monitoring
Review academic goal-setting strategies
Review decision rules for analyzing academic progress monitoring data
Graph progress monitoring data and set goals
Explore tools to support the facilitation of efficient and effective data team meetings
Review questions to guide hypothesis development and adaptations to interventions
Explore how to use informal diagnostic data to individualize intervention
Read about considerations for using diagnostic data to inform intervention planning
Intensify interventions for students with reading difficulty
Intensify interventions for students with math difficulty
Engage parents and families in intensive intervention
Provide an overview of intensive intervention to parents and families
Help parents and families to generate questions in order to learn more about intensive intervention
Provide tips for parents and families
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Office of Special Education Programs