What is Early Intervening Services/ Response to Intervention?

Early Intervening Services

• "The preventive components of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004 (IDEA'04)."
• EIS" Involves a tiered approach to providing the most appropriate instruction, services and scientifically based interventions to struggling students- with increasing intensity at each tier (Cortiella, 2005). RtI is often used in conjunction with identifying students as having a specific learning disability."

Response to Intervention

• “Practice of providing high quality instruction and interventions matched to student need, monitoring progress frequently to make changes in instruction or goals, and applying child response data to important educational decisions”