Specialist Teaching for Literacy-Related Difficulties

The Dyslexia Action Postgraduate Certificates, Diploma and MEd qualifications are a unique and prestigious programme at Master’s level 7 that provides training to become informed practitioners and specialist teachers and/or assessors.

This programme was developed and is delivered and assessed by Dyslexia Action, awarded by and quality assured by Middlesex University. The courses are modular and flexible and are undertaken part-time, through online learning. Access is available 24/7 to the Virtual Learning Environment and all modules are tutor-supported through online forums.

Why take this Certificate?
Delegates completing this Certificate will gain the skills and knowledge to:

- Examine research on literacy acquisition and related difficulties; explore a range of factors that influence typical and atypical communication, language and literacy skills and review the construct of intelligence and how it is applied in learning environments

- Develop the complex and extensive skill-set needed to be an effective specialist literacy teacher and in order to facilitate literacy understanding in learners; conduct a placement process and deliver a series of structured multisensory learning sessions with a learner

The Certificate is split into two modules:

- DAPP21-01: Literacy Acquisition – Underpinning Theory – 30 credits, six months, one semester

- DAPP21-02: Specialist Literacy Teaching – Linking Theory to Practice – 30 credits, six months, one semester