Another course taught at the San Diego County Office of Education's North County Regional Education Center in San Marcos that I have attended was Response to Intervention taught by Lorraine Wyant on behalf of the North Coastal Consortium for Special Education. Lorraine is a very well known special education coordinator for the California Department of Education. She created the California Response to Intervention model I and II and then drove across California implementing it. Her amazing skill at connecting the needs of special education students to general education situations were astounding. she said "think about one of your classes, 30 students in all...10 of those students have documented disabilities let me let you in on a secret all 30 of your students in your class suffer from some form of learning disability and its your job to teach all 30 students with no special education training" Lorraine continued to explain how her RtI model's can be successfully implemented in a general and special education setting for even the most emotionally disturbed students so that both the student and the teacher can be successful in the classroom.
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