Dyslexia Therapist Diploma OfCourse
Price: USD 12
USD 25
  • Duration: Flexible

Course details

43 lectures; 1h video instruction; 29 activities
  • Regular quiz assessments; downloadable resources and checklists
  • Understand dyslexia as an experience, and its diagnosis
  • Use exercises and activities to diagnose, treat and evaluate
  • Build an inclusive classroom and coping strategies for work
  • Learn about medical and nutritional treatments for dyslexia

With around 10% of people suffering with dyslexia, it's never been more important to understand the disorder. This course will help those close to people with dyslexia and those seeking to become dyslexia therapists.

Led by the qualified experts of Renaissance Life Therapies, this course provides a comprehensive guide to dyslexia and its therapies. You will understand the basis of dyslexia, its diagnosis and assessment techniques.

The second half of the course will cover managing dyslexia using technology, and different approaches to take in the classroom, the workplace, and seminars to lead. Finally, the course will look at clinical therapy and treatments.

Welcome to the course
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  • Welcome to the course
Understanding Dyslexia
  • Defining Dyslexia
  • Living With Dyslexia
  • Causes of Dyslexia
  • Related Concerns and Issues
  • Activities and Downloadable Resources
Diagnosis
  • Diagnosis Criteria
  • Changes to the DSM and SLD Diagnosis… 
  • Downloadable Resources
Assessment and Evaluation
  • Language
  • Phonological awareness
  • Reading comprehension
  • Writing
  • Other Considerations
  • Activities and Downloadable Resources
Managing Dyslexia
  • Assistive and Adaptive Technology
  • Self-advocacy
  • Remediation Training
  • Activities and Downloadable Resources
Learning The Basics
  • Learning The Basics - Language
  • Learning The Basics - Writing
  • Activities and Downloadable Resources
Dyslexia in The Classroom
  • Intro
  • Building an Inclusive Classroom
  • Differentiated instruction
  • Classroom Modifications
Dyslexia in The Workplace
  • Dyslexia in the Workplace - Downloadable Resouces
  • Awareness
  • Reading Strategies
  • Memory Strategies
Information Seminars
  • Organising Seminars
  • Sensitivity Training and Real Change
  • Activities
Intervention for Dyslexia
  • Intervention of Dyslexia - Downloadable Resources
  • Testing
Clinical Therapy
  • Clinical Therapies - Downloadable Resources
  • Nutritional/Allergic Treatment
  • Sensory Integration, Reading Reflex, and Optometric Treatment
Quiz
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
  • Part 4
  • Part 5
  • Part 6
  • Part 7
  • Part 8
  • Part 9
  • Part 10
Updated on 14 October, 2018

About OfCourse

OfCourse Learning is one of the UK's leading e-learning providers, with over 700 expert-led online courses. Their course categories range from well-being and health to personal and career development. Their courses contain numerous video-lectures, downloadable written materials and engaging assessments. Whether you want to learn sign language, become an excel whizz, or need the latest stress-busting techniques, OfCourse has something for everyone.

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