These days it seems like a day never passes when I'm not asked how a teacher can help a student or asked to provide a suggestion about interventions that should be tried before a special education evaluation. Don't even get my started on what my brain does in terms of interventions with it comes to special education team meetings .... some times I worry that I won't remember my name because I've pulled so many interventions from my brain.
Over my time in graduate school for school psychology we were exposed to some very valuable resources, especially in the area of interventions. My favorite site for interventions is Intervention Central, hands down. I love this site for a variety of reasons (RtI Supplies, Data Collection ideas, etc.) but the overall reason I love it is because it really caters to a variety of individuals working in education. It doesn't provide the intervention is such a scholarly way that is difficult to read without a dictionary and google. I often print off copies of the intervention I'm suggesting and hand it to the teacher and support works to look at before we meet to discuss it. Not once have I had someone tell me they don't understand it or couldn't grasp what was being explained. Another great things about Intervention Central is that they provide all of the materials that are needed for interventions. For example, the behavioral contracting intervention provides a link for a homework contract. Now some times I have to change things around a little to make them work for my situation, but it's always great to have a foundation to build off of.
The other site I reference a lot is the Evidence Based Intervention Network. This is a great website because it provides information about the evidence behind the interventions and a brief on how to implement the intervention. Just a little background information on it :The EBI Network began in 2007 with the East Carolina University Evidence Based Intervention Project. In 2009, Dr. Rebecca Martinez and students in the Indiana University School Psychology program joined the project with the specific goal of creating YouTube videos for interventions as well as adding to the other resources on the site. In 2011 the site was formally moved to the University of Missouri when Dr. Riley-Tillman joined that faculty. At that time Dr. Erica Lembke and Dr. Melissa Stormont joined the project with the goal of adding a broader range of resources to teachers, problem solving teams and other educational professionals working with children in need.
Both are great resources that I use on a daily bases. In fact, one of my internship goals was to make an intervention binder to provide to the teachers at the elementary school I work at. I created one academic and one behavioral. My thought was that teachers might consult these binders and try some interventions before bringing a student to the special education team meeting. I also thought it would be a great resources for the school to have when I no longer worked there.
I'm always looking for new intervention sites so if you know of some good ones, please feel free to drop me a comment!
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