Basic Language Skills
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The Basic Language Skills courses prepares students to become Academic Language Therapists.
Students wishing to enroll in the Basic Language Skills program must have a Bachelors degree.
The course requirements are:
- 220 training and workshop hours consisting of:
- Basic Language Skills, Introductory Course -
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- Basic Language Skills, Advanced Course -
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- Written Composition/Power Writing Workshop
- History of Grammar Workshop
- Multisensory Grammar Workshop
- Comprehension Workshop
- Fluency Workshop
- Ethics/Certification Workshop
- Progress Report Writing Workshop
- Advanced Spelling Workshop
- 700 + teaching hours with a minimum of 3 teaching situations
- 10 successful demonstrations with feedback
- 10 book reports on professional development
- 3 teaching situations minimum, one being the demonstration situation
- 3 progress reports a year on every teaching situation for the entire
period of training and practice.
- 1 case study documenting the placement, progress, and outcome of one
student chosen from the demonstration teaching situation
When all requirements are met, one can be recommended to take the national
exam for certification. Upon passing, one becomes a Certified Academic
Language Therapist (CALT). There is a five year limit to complete the process.
The therapist-in-training is responsible for maintaining all required
paperwork. The candidate is equally responsible for keeping in close
communication with the Training Director, which includes making sure a
copy of required paperwork is maintained in the Rawson-Saunders School
Training Center file.
The Basic Language Skills-Introductory Course
involves 15 days of
intensive training and was developed at the Neuhaus Education Center in
Houston, Texas. The course is based on Alphabetic Phonics, a therapeutic
curriculum for use by teachers, specialists, and educational therapists working
with students identified with special needs in the areas of reading and spelling.
This curriculum is particularly effective with students identified as having
dyslexia or other types of reading disabilities. The Introductory Course
provides a research-based approach to teaching literacy skills, such as
phonological awareness, letter recognition, decoding, comprehension, spelling,
grammar, and written composition. Completion of this course is the prerequisite
for entering the Dyslexia Specialist Preparation Program.
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The Basic Language Skills-Advanced Course
is offered for those who
have successfully completed the Introductory Course and taught through Concept
50 in Basic Language Skills-Book 1 with a minimum of two observations completed.
This class is designed to refine diagnostic and prescriptive teaching skills and
introduce higher levels of curriculum.
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