The Key Dyslexia Therapy Training Program offers comprehensive teacher/practitioner and therapy-level training designed to prepare educators to become Academic Language Therapists (ALT) who will provide specially designed instruction to students who have a language-based learning difference such as dyslexia, or a related written language disorder. ALT candidates will become proficient in creating and delivering multisensory structured language interventions utilizing diagnostic and prescriptive instructional techniques.
Information sessions to learn more about becoming an Academic Language Therapist through the Key Dyslexia Therapy Training Program are held on the first Wednesday of each month beginning in February 2026. Sessions are held virtually and are free to attend.
To learn more about the Key Dyslexia Therapy Training Program, email us at training@ksfw.org.
Personalized information sessions are also available. Request a more convenient time at the link below.
To learn more about the Key Dyslexia Therapy Training Program, email us at training@ksfw.org.
The Key Dyslexia Therapy Program abides by the exemplary standards established by the International Multi-sensory Structured Education Council (IMSLEC), the Academic Language Therapy Association (ALTA), and the International Dyslexia Association (IDA).
While working toward your CALT Certification with Key Dyslexia Therapy Training Program, you can gain graduate credits toward your Master of Education in Special Education with Dyslexia Emphasis at Midwestern State University.
Click here for details about the MSU Master of Education in Special Education with Dyslexia Emphasis. Scroll down on the MSU page for specific Dyslexia Emphasis course information.
Academic Language Therapy is the diagnostic and prescriptive application of Multisensory Structured Language to mitigate or remediate written-language disorders, including dyslexia.
Academic Language Therapy Association® (ALTA)
Academic language means that instruction offered to individuals is educational and emphasizes the teaching of reading, spelling, handwriting, and written expression. Therapy indicates that the instruction is intensive and therapeutic rather than tutorial. Students receiving academic language therapy are taught the structure of the English language from its simplest to its most complex form. Multisensory Structured Language (terms which are often used interchangeably) includes the teaching of phonology, phonics, orthography, morphology-etymology, semantics and syntax. These components are taught through an explicit, systematic, sequential, cumulative and repetitive manner.