BREYER STATE UNIVERSITY

TEACHING DYSLEXICS

CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

Instructor: Catherine A. Moran, MS.Ed, PhD

Introduction

COURSE OVERVIEW: Breyer State University offers a complete Certificate program in Teaching Dyslexics. This is a twelve-semester hour course and provides a comprehensive and detailed curriculum in this teaching specialty. The program uses the latest and authoritative texts. The certificate program objective is to prepare teachers to practice at a competent level of knowledge and skill in teaching children with special needs.

Upon successful completion of the certificate program, graduates receive a College Certificate in Teaching Dyslexics, and twelve-semester hours of college credit. CEU certificates are also available for 180 contact hours.

You may enroll at anytime and begin your studies. The Certificate Program is designed to be a self-paced program with one to one faculty mentoring. You are permitted twelve months from the date of enrollment to complete the program. You study and meet the program objectives at your own pace, and are permitted to complete the program in less than the twelve-month allotted time frame.

Once officially enrolled, you are given a security password and directions to accessing the online classroom for the Certificate Program. The classroom contains information about me your course instructor, course assignments, ordering information for textbooks, course objectives, syllabus and information regarding exams. You are to correspond with me via email, and/or phone.

Courses in the Certificate Program:

1). EDC 420 - Teaching Dyslexics I   - 4 semester hours
2). EDC 425 - Teaching Dyslexics II  - 4 semester hours
3). EDC 429 - Teaching Dyslexics III - 4 semester hours

EXAMS: During your studies, you will use five textbooks and will create a “Learning Portfolio” by moving through the texts and answering questions related to the reading assignments. Following completion of the Learning Portfolio, youwill take one final examination, which is open book. You are given a particular time frame in which to complete the final examination.

GRADES: The Learning Portfolio is graded on a Pass/Fail basis. The final examination is objective type and students receive a letter grade based on the following scale:

90–100%    = A
80-89%      = B
70-79%      = C
Below 70% = Fail

You must receive a letter grade of C or higher to successfully complete the program.

TEXTBOOKS: The following textbooks are used in the Certificate Program.

Book 1: Help for Teaching Dyslexics. T.R. Miles and Elaine Miles. Routledge Publisher. 1998: ISBN # 0-415-04570-3.

Book 2: Dyslexia and Mathematics. T.R. Miles and Elaine Miles. Routledge Publisher. 1995: ISBN # 0-415-04987-3.

Book 3: Activities for Developing Visual Perception. Polly Behrman. Academic Therapy Publications. ISBN # 0-87879-012-8.

Book 4: Edu-K for Kids. Paul E. Dennison, Ph.D. and Gail E. Dennison. Edu-Kinesthetics, Inc. ISBN # 0-942143-01-9.

Book 5: Teaching and Assessing Phonics. By Jean S. Chall and Helen M. Popp. Educators Publishing Service, Inc. ISBN # 0-8388-2314-9.

Ordering Information: you may order these books from any source that you wish. Many of the major bookstores through out the country will special order this book for you.

You can also order them online at:

Borders Books at:
www.borders.com

Amazon.com at:
www.amazon.com

Barnes & Noble at:
www.bn.com

PREREQUISITE: Bachelors Degree in Education or Psychology. Others by request only.

INSTRUCTOR: The instructor for this Certificate Program is Catherine Moran, B.S., MS.Ed., PhD

Tuition and Fees: See the tuition and fee schedule for Certificate Programs here.

Frequently Asked Questions: See our FAQS on Certificate Programs here.

COURSE CONTENT: Asmall sample of course content follows:

1). Laterality repatterning.
2). Reading across the midline.
3). Reading and writing in mathematics.
4). The use of patterns.
5). Tracing.
6). Visual stimuli-motor response.
7). Tracking.
8). Tactile-Visual-Motor.
9). Visual sequencing.
10). Effective phonic instruction.
11). Objective and teaching strategies.
12). Language, cognition and word identification.
13). Why do some phonics programs fail?

TUITION: The tuition for this certificate program is $900.00. This does not include the cost of textbooks. You are provided ordering information for the textbooks, and must order on your own.

Our tuition payment plan allows you to pay for one course at a time. You may also elect to pay the entire tuition for all three courses at one time. Each course must be paid for prior to beginning each course.

ENROLLING: You may enroll at anytime for this certificate program. Enroll today and begin your studies toward a professional college certificate in Teaching Dyslexics. Breyer State University has a secure online credit card server, and so you can pay for courses right on line. Upon enrolling in the program, you will be given a unique student ID number and pass word to access the classroom for your course. Each course has its own classroom where all assignments are posted, as well as the course syllabus. All examinations are also accessed through the classroom. Each classroom has a chat room and a message board where you and faculty may communicate.

OPTION: Some you may be interested in taking only one or two of the courses offered within a certificate program. This is acceptable. The price per course will be prorated based on the total tuition cost of the certificate program. If you elect not to take all three of the courses within the program, however, you will not be granted your college certificate. You must complete all three courses in the certificate program to be awarded the college certificate.

PROGRAM COMPLETION: Upon successful completion of all three courses in the program, you are graduated and receive your official transcripts as well as an official Diploma Certificate very suitable for framing.

INFORMATION: If you have any questions regarding this program, you may address them to ihm51@neo.rr.com