The intervention is to target her reading deficits and help her learn strategies. Whoa! They’re the same. That’s right.
A lot of the time, special education is basically just good teaching.
All too frequently, special education becomes the only intervention, and that is just sad
Now let’s say the intervention is a 6 week program with a Mandarin reading tutor who teaches you vocabulary, sound-symbol correspondence, Mandarin pronunciation, and does guided reading with you to give you corrective feedback.
Friends, it’s not that your school psychologist doesn’t want to test the student for a disability, it’s that s/he doesn’t have any evidence that the problem can’t be remediated with a decent targeted intervention
Have a disability,
Need special education
So if the students needs can be met in general education, no matter what their processing and IQ scores are, they don't qualify for special education
And here we have the perfect example of theory and practice being at odds. I totally get why special education is so popular as an "intervention.