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One Year Training

Certified Academic Language Practitioner

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CALP's are...

  • Trained at the Practitioner Level – ALTA Certified Academic Language Practitioners (CALP) are skilled in Multisensory Structured Language methodology, and teach reading, writing, study, and testing skills.

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  • Skilled In Multisensory Structured Language – Certified Academic Language Practitioners utilize Multisensory Structured Language to integrate visual, auditory, and motor processing with explicit understanding of the structure of the English language, enabling students to develop a solid foundation for reading and writing.

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  • Results-Driven – Certified Academic Language Practitioners enable students to apply explicit understanding of the structure of the English language (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and orthography), to develop and strengthen both reading and written expression.

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  • Eligibility – Master’s Degree

  • Class Contact Hours: (100 hours):

    • Take Flight I (two weeks) plus 4 full day seminar days

  • Therapy Experience: (60 teaching hours)

    • A minimum of three therapy situations

    • Begin the curriculum at least three times

    • Experience working in the advanced portion of the curriculum

    • Experience with a one-on-one situation recommended but not required

Certification Requirements

Take Flight

Take Flight: A Comprehensive Intervention for Students with Dyslexia is a two-year curriculum written by the staff of the Center for Dyslexia at Scottish Rite for Children. Take Flight builds on the success of the three previous dyslexia intervention programs developed by the staff of Scottish Rite: Alphabetic Phonics, Dyslexia Training Program and Scottish Rite for Children Literacy Program.

 

Take Flight contains the five components of effective reading instruction identified by research from the National Reading Panel.

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  • Phonemic Awareness – following established procedures for explicitly teaching the relationships between speech sound production and spelling-sound patterns

  • Phonics – providing a systematic approach for single word decoding

  • Fluency – using research-proven directed practice in repeated reading of words, phrases and passages to help students read newly encountered text more fluently

  • Vocabulary – featuring multiple word learning strategies (definitional, structural, contextual) and explicit teaching techniques with application in text

  • Reading Comprehension – teaching students to explicitly use and articulate multiple comprehension strategies (i.e., cooperative learning, story structure, question generation and answering, summarization and comprehension monitoring)

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Take Flight was designed for use by Academic Language Therapists for children with dyslexia ages 7 and older. The two-year program is designed to be taught four days per week (60 minutes per day) or five days per week (45 minutes per day). It is intended for one-on-one or small group instruction with no more than six students per class.

 

Take Flight is taught daily in the Center for Dyslexia’s lab school where students from the surrounding Dallas-Fort Worth area who are identified in our diagnostic center attend classes daily. The lab school gives the Scottish Rite staff the opportunity to learn from students with dyslexia and improve Take Flight strategies.

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