Graduate Certificate in Dyslexia

Program Overview

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. 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.