Historical and legal background for Response to Intervention -- Implementing RTI as school reform : instructional prerequisites for using RTI for eligibility decision making -- Determining inadequate academic achievement -- Determining rate of improvement -- Ruling out other conditions -- Ruling out inadequate instruction -- The observation requirement -- Parent involvement in an RTI system -- Determining eligibility for special education : pulling all the pieces together in a comprehensive evaluation -- Using RTI data to build an IEP -- Frequently asked questions about RTI and SLD.