The Slingerland® Approach Multisensory Structured Language Comprehensive Classes are based on an adaptation by Beth H. Slingerland of the multisensory approach of Dr. Samuel T. Orton and Anna Gillingham. The techniques she developed are based on sound neurological principles of learning and give children the necessary tools to be successful readers, writers, and spellers.
The class includes a practicum with students, demonstrations, and observations. This intensive class of study includes instructional techniques in handwriting, written language, decoding, and reading comprehension.
This Comprehensive Classes at Stellar Academy for Dyslexics are offered at two levels: (introductory and third level continuum.)
Location: Stellar Academy, Newark, CA
Dates: July 5 – August 4, 2023
Cost: $3075
For complete course details and registration, please click here.
Scholarship information available here.
CLASS DETAILS
Introductory Level Class: This class is the core of the Slingerland training program. Class content includes:
- Instruction in the introductory steps of handwriting, written language, decoding and reading comprehension
- Practice with multi-sensory teaching principles through daily work with children.
- The study of phonic rules and their application to encoding and decoding
- The neurology of language as a means of developing oral language skills
- The history, philosophy and current research in the field of dyslexia, structured literacy, and science of reading
- The relationship of curriculum and classroom organization to the language arts program
Introductory Class includes texts and teaching tools with a retail value of $215 ($235 with Shipping & Handling).
Third Level Continuum: This class is for those who have already gone through the process to become a Certified Slingerland Teacher (CST) and wish to become staff teachers in Slingerland’s multisensory structured language training course or deepen their practice as a CST.
Third Level Continuum/Intern class content includes:
- Evaluations of participant lesson plans, materials, and teaching stations
- Evaluations of delivery of planned lessons Assisting with the completion of forms for the Slingerland® Literacy Institute
- Preparation and delivery of lectures to participants
- Preparation of an orientation about dyslexia and the Slingerland® Approach
Classes are accredited through the International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council (IMSLEC).
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