Overview
The Graduate Certificate in Dyslexia Knowledge and Practice is a synchronous online 12-credit graduate program that enables educators to acquire knowledge, skills, and competencies required to teach those with dyslexia and other language-based learning difficulties.
We encourage reading specialists, elementary, middle, and high school teachers, special education teachers, TESOL/BDL and speech-language pathologists, and other graduate students to apply.
Why the Graduate Certificate in Dyslexia Knowledge and Practice?
● Experts in reading, language, and learning disabilities co-teach classes
● Participants will learn to
- engage in depth and breadth of content within 180 hours of coursework
- engage in 100 hours of assessment and instruction practicum
- gain expert coaching and feedback via video platform
- learn a structured language literacy approach based on Orton-Gillinham principles
- develop a wide range of research-developed tools to address a continuum of language bases needs ranging from mild severe dyslexia
- develop dyslexia screening tools
- administer and interpret a full diagnostic language and literacy evaluation
- develop knowledge of the neurocognitive aspects of learning, individualizing for students needs
- use technology to engage learners