Program Description | Admission | Certificate Requirements | Courses
Program Description
The Graduate Dyslexia Certificate provides students with the strategies and techniques necessary to effectively assess and plan instruction for dyslexic students. This certificate will benefit individuals who wish to incorporate instructional strategies in the classroom or as a building dyslexia specialist. This dyslexia certificate course work covers the necessary components that the State of Texas outlines in The Dyslexia Handbook (2010). SHSU students who complete the course work for this certificate will gain competence in assessment and differential diagnosis, instruction in the components of phonological and graphophonemic knowledge, and instruction that is multisensory, explicit, sequential, and cumulative.
Admission
Applicants seeking admission to the graduate certificate program in Early Childhood Education must submit the following directly to the Office of Graduate Studies:
- A Graduate Studies Application with the application fee
- Official transcript from the baccalaureate degree granting institution
- 2.8 GPA (3.0 or higher waives GRE score)
- GRE scores (these may be waived under certain situations)
- Online survey and interview on Survey Monkey
Certificate Requirements
Plan 1 - Graduate Certificate Dyslexia
Item |
Requirement |
Options |
Hours Required |
| 1 | Specified Courses | Required Courses: SPD 530 <SPED 6313> Seminar in Learning and Learning Disabilities SPD 5XX <SPED XXXX> TBA RDG 530 <READ 5306> Survey of Reading RDG 532 <READ 5307> Practicum in Literacy Assessment and Instructional Strategies I RDG 532 <READ 5307> Practicum in Literacy Assessment and Instructional Strategies II |
15 |
TOTAL |
15 |
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