For many parents, there is probably no greater outcome for RTI than for their child to receive assistance promptly when they begin struggling in school. When students receive interventions early, negative behaviors due to frustration are often avoided. Successful students feel better about themselves and maintain a positive view of learning and their school experience.
RTI eliminates the "wait to fail" dilemma for students to become eligible for special education services as a student with disabilities. RTI has the potential to reduce the numbers of students who are referred for special education evaluations while increasing the number of students who are successful within regular education. The exact numbers of students receiving the interventions they need, who will not need special education services is hard to estimate. The best outcome is always to provide students the help they need when they need it.
Parents and educators have reported that RTI interventions through frequent monitoring of student progress, have produced more information about successful teaching strategies than previous assessments for the individual student leading to the student?s success.
RTI helps educators to tell the difference between students with a disability and those who may have academic or behavioral difficulties due to other issues leading to fewer referrals to special education. Other populations of students have in the past been over identified for special education. These students from diverse, racial, cultural, language backgrounds are more likely to benefit form the early interventions and they also may also be referred less often for evaluation.
