What is the Celebrate Dyslexia Learning Center?
Celebrate Dyslexia is proud to offer a range of professional development and training opportunities for educators and school districts to strengthen their knowledge and skills in supporting students with dyslexia. Our educator preparation program follows the guidelines of the International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council (IMSLEC), enabling participants to meet the coursework requirements for pursuing professional certification.
In addition, the Celebrate Dyslexia Learning Center has earned Independent Course Approval from the Academic Language Therapy Association (ALTA), a nationally recognized benchmark for excellence in dyslexia instruction. This designation allows us to provide ALTA-approved coursework directly through partnerships with universities and school districts, creating a more accessible pathway for educators to earn nationally recognized credentials and expanding the availability of evidence-based dyslexia training throughout Texas.
What is a CALT?
A Certified Academic Language Therapist (CALT) is an individual who is able to provide diagnostic, explicit, systematic multisensory structured language intervention which builds a high degree of accuracy, know and independence for students with written-language disorders, such as dyslexia.
CALTs are trained with in depth knowledge of reading and the science of dyslexia, and are eligible to provide school wide professional development on best practice for the student with dyslexia.
A Qualified Instructor (QI) is a CALT who aspires to train other CALTs through teaching the coursework and observing CALTs in training.
The hands on practicum and interspersed training conversations make this program more effective and different than most trainings we experience in education.
I've been a teacher for over a decade and someone who considered myself an "expert" in literacy. The systemic, research-based approach to teaching children to read was a huge gap in my schema.
They teach you to curate a collection of activities that intentionally meet student needs while following the scope of a program that has the child's needs of mastery as the focus.
Professional Development
Dyslexia 101: 3-hour seminar includes a simulation activity and best practices on how to support students with dyslexia in the classroom.
BUILD: Day-long training in a small group intervention program tailored for Kindergarten and 1st-grade students who need extra support in reading. BUILD strengthens foundational literacy skills through engaging, multisensory instruction, helping young learners overcome challenges and achieve reading success.
Rite Flight: Day-long training in a Tier II reading intervention program designed for students in
1st -8th grade. This program can be implemented as supplemental instruction, small group intervention or whole-class support, empowering educators to build students’ critical literacy skills.
Certification Pathways
Certified Academic Language Practitioner:
1-year program for practitioner-level training in Multisensory Structured Language instruction that fosters strong accuracy, deep knowledge and self-reliance in students with dyslexia in reading and writing.
Certified Academic Language Therapist:
2-year program to gain therapist-level knowledge in methodical Multisensory Structured Language targeted, diagnostic Tier-3 intervention for students with dyslexia.
Reading By Design: 1-year program for training in a systematic, multisensory intervention program that can be used as dyslexia intervention for individuals or small groups to develop literacy skills at all grade levels.
JET: 1-year program for training in a program designed for students at least 14 years old; focusing on the five components of effective reading: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
Our Training Center Team
Janice Robson,
M.Ed, LDT, CALT, QI
Director
