The Scottish Rite Learning Center of West Texas offers a dyslexia therapist training course which provides an opportunity for teachers to learn a curriculum and strategies that are recognized as being effective for teaching students with dyslexia. Course content and techniques are based on the original Orton-Gillingham model with additions and refinements developed in the Language Laboratory of the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Dallas.
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Graduate Level
Therapist Training
IMSLEC Accredited
Dyslexia Therapist Training
The Scottish Rite Learning Center’s graduate level therapist training program offers training for teachers of students with dyslexia. The program includes academic instruction, supervised teaching, on-site observations, and demonstration of teaching competency in the curriculum. Teachers completing the multisensory structured language education training course graduate as dyslexia therapists.
Step One
First Year Course Work
• Introductory Course (105 hours), 3 weeks in June, M – F, 8:00-4:30
• Four Introductory Seminars and the Lecture Series (36 hours)
• Teaching the curriculum in therapy situations to either an individual and/or small groups
• Minimum of five demonstration lessons
Step Two
Second Year Course Work
• Advanced Course (60 hours), 2 weeks in June; M-F, 8:00-4:30
• Three Advanced Seminars and the Lecture Series (28 hours)
• Continuation of teaching the curriculum in therapy situations to either an individual and/or small groups
• Minimum of five demonstration lessons