Credit Validation for Lexercise Participants Only
This 13-week, live, online clinical practicum provides professionals with hands-on experience delivering online clinical intervention to struggling readers of various ages. Participants will apply structured literacy techniques while developing best-practice teletherapy skills and strategies.
Under the mentorship of a CERI-Certified Lexercise therapist, participants will practice providing structured literacy intervention to struggling readers across a range of age groups. The students served through this course receive support through the Natalie Wexler Scholarship, which has provided literacy services to hundreds of students who otherwise may not have been able to access specialized intervention.
Certificate Requirements
Course: EDC-X727AA Course 3: Practicum in Structured Literacy Therapy
Units: 8 units
Total hours: 100
What You Will Learn
- Formulate targeted instructional, diagnostic, and intervention plans for students with reading disorders by applying the foundational principles of the Simple View of Reading theory
- Design explicit, evidence-based lesson sequences that develop alphabet knowledge, phonemic awareness, and accurate decoding skills in emerging readers
- Integrate morphological awareness, advanced vocabulary instruction, and sentence-level fluency techniques into a structured literacy framework to strengthen reading comprehension
- Employ multisensory and multimodal instructional strategies to engage diverse learners in developing handwriting skills and comprehending complex texts
Who Should Attend
- Educators
- School administrators
- Literacy specialists
- Instructional coaches
- Reading interventionists
- Professionals seeking to become literacy therapists
Benefits
- Qualify for high-demand specialist roles in literacy intervention and structured literacy instruction
- Expand instructional expertise in the Science of Reading, structured literacy (Orton-Gillingham), and multisensory teaching techniques
- Launch a private literacy therapy business by developing the knowledge and skills needed to provide evidence-based literacy intervention services
Instructors
The University of San Diego partners with this organization to offer graduate-level extension credit in semester hours through the Credit Validation Program. Instruction is provided by instructors selected by the partner organization. USD does not provide instruction, course materials, or assign grades.