Graduate Certificate in Dyslexia Knowledge and Practice

Curriculum

The Graduate Certificate in Dyslexia Knowledge and Practice consists of four 3-credit courses.

Program Requirements

Courses in the program are cumulative. As components of language, literacy, and related cognitive issues are introduced, participants integrate them into assessment and instruction with students. The program culminates in a supervised clinical practicum where participants implement integrated multisensory, structured language literacy plans.

Required Courses

  • EDC/PSY 527, Language Study for Teachers of Reading
    Investigates the language components of phonetics, phonology, morphology, orthography, etymology, and pragmatics, as well as handwriting skills, and how these
    affect reading and writing for students with dyslexia; also focuses on assessment of, and multisensory instruction in sound-symbol association, phonemic awareness, phonics, word reading, and spelling
  • EDC 562, Methods of Intervention for Literacy Difficulties
    Investigates the language components of semantics and discourse processing, and how these affect students’ vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency; explores a
    multidimensional model of comprehension and cognitive text processing in narrative and expository texts; also adds to EDC527 the assessment of, and multisensory instruction in, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency
  • EDC/PSY 544, Reading Acquisition and Reading Disability: Research and Implications for Practice
    Investigates oral language development, the language components of syntax and written expression; examines the origins of dyslexia, including the language, cognitive, neurological characteristics of children who both learn to read successfully and of those who encounter difficulty; adds to EDC527 and EDC562 the assessment of, and multisensory instruction in syntax and written expression
  • EDC566, Intervention in Reading and Writing Difficulties (clinical practicum)
    Provides supervised clinical practicum experience in the diagnosis and intervention for students with dyslexia and other language-based learning difficulties