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Letter from NCLD
NCLD's Executive Director, James Wendorf, discusses the ways in which NCLD highlights the creative voices of individuals struggling with LD with the "30 Voices of LD" Competition 2007 and the Anne Ford Scholarship.

Research Roundup
NCLD's Director of Professional Services, Dr. Sheldon Horowitz, discusses the often overlooked (and misunderstood) features of nonverbal learning disabilities.

Policy Updates
This month, find out about two conferences that addressed interesting and important issues about the implementation and impact of the No Child Left Behind Act, and more.

News Desk
This month, find out about the effects of racial segregation on student achievement, learn how video games can help prepare you for the work force, visit Google's new literacy Web site, and more.
 
LD Links
Get resources to help improve parental involvement in schools, read about an online training curriculum aimed at helping high school teachers and college faculty understand how to meet the needs of students with disabilities, find out how to improve writing skills in middle and high school students, and more in this month's LD Links.

RTI Update
NCLD Participates in "New Roles Publication" on Response to Intervention
In order to create a common language to discuss Response to Intervention (RTI), 13 organizations, including the National Center for Learning Disabilities, have joined together to release New Roles in Response to Intervention: Creating Success for Schools and Children. The participating organizations hope that by collecting their statements on RTI together, competition between organizations will decrease, and focus will turn, rather, to what's in the best interest of the child.

RTI identifies students who are struggling with learning before it becomes a problem. Struggling students are given increasingly intensive lessons and monitored continuously, and students who do not respond at the most intensive levels will be referred for possible placement in a special education setting. The National Education Association, the Learning Disabilities Association of America, and the International Reading Association are among the organizations involved in the collection, offering new ideas and research on RTI as well as raising questions to assure that, as a new method, it is studied carefully.