Research Update on Assessment-Intervention Links: Scientifically Supported Practices for Preventing and Treating Reading and Writing Problems in School Settings

By Virginia W. Berninger University of Washington

CASP Today asked me to update research, including its direct implications for practice, in my invited presentation at the 2000 annual CASP Convention in Monterey. I had presented an overview of our National Institute of Child Health and Human Developmental (NICHD)-funded research program at the University of Washington on the assessment, prevention, and treatment of reading and writing disabilities.

In progress since 1989, this research program, has used cross-sectional, longitudinal, and instructional research; and has been conducted by school psychology faculty and graduate students. In this program we have two separate but related projects -- Literacy Trek and the Write Stuff Intervention - in which we have studied

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