Academic Skills Problems

Book excerpt: This popular practitioner guide and text presents an effective, problem-solving-based approach to evaluating and remediating academic skills problems. Leading authority Edward S. Shapiro provides practical strategies for working with students across all grade levels who are struggling with reading, spelling, written language, or math. Step-by-step guidelines are detailed for assessing students' learning and their instructional environment, using the data to design instructional modifications, and monitoring student progress. The research base for the approach is accessibly summarized. The companion workbook, available separately, contains practice exercises and reproducible forms. New to this edition: incorporates the latest advances in evidence-based assessment and instruction shows how the author's approach fits perfectly into a Response-to-Intervention (RTI) model chapter and extended case example focusing on RTI 30 of the figures, tables, and forms are new or revised. This book will be invaluable to school psychologists, K-12 school administrators, special educators, and classroom teachers; graduate students and researchers in these fields. Together with the companion Workbook, it will serve as a text in graduate-level courses dealing with academic assessment and intervention.