Basic Language Skills: Advanced

In Basic Language Skills: Advanced, participants build on the foundation from Basic Language Skills: Introduction to refine their expertise in planning, delivering, and assessing instruction for students with dyslexia and related disorders, through advanced coursework and an intensive supervised practicum. Instruction emphasizes evidence-based practices in phonemic awareness, decoding, fluency, oral language, comprehension, and composition, continuing participants' progress through the Dyslexia Specialist Preparation Program (DSPP) pathway toward ALTA certification as a Certified Academic Language Practitioner (CALP) or Certified Academic Language Therapist (CALT).

Audience: Reading and Dyslexia Specialists, and Tier III Intervention Teachers.

Details: Runs 10 days, 65.5 hours, in person or live virtual. Includes BLS Advanced and BLS Advanced Follow-up. Recommended lesson routine of at least 180 minutes per week in an intervention setting.

Participants leave with advanced, evidence-based practices for planning, delivering, and assessing instruction for students with dyslexia and related disorders, and progress toward DSPP certification.

Prerequisites: Basic Language Skills: Introduction, Multisensory Grammar, and Developing Metacognitive Strategies, plus completion of Teaching through Basic Language Skills concept 63 (a practicum milestone completed within Basic Language Skills: Introduction).