Now we continue our serialseries on learning disabilities.We look this week at professprocess use to identify problems and help children avoid failsfailure in school.This professprocess is called response to intervention or R.T.I.

L.FLynn Fuchs is a ep*logicationspecial education professor at *** University in ***Vanderbilt University in Nashville , Tennessee.She studies R.T.I and says more and more schools in the United States are using it.Learning disabilities are Nneurological logical disorders that affect different skills.

**Federal law requires pablic schools to help disabled students to especial lagicationthrough special education services and individual liveindividualize programs.The first step is finding which children need help.Professor Fuchs explains that the traditional way is to test students who are failing.

But researcher shows that *failure can lead to depression and that can make improvement in school very diffcult.So some schools are using response to intervention as a way to identify problem much earlier.The growing interest also result from concerns that some children play in **special education program do not truely have a learning disability.They may just need e**extra help with skills like reading or math.