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About Take Flight Teacher Training

Multisensory Teacher Training


MCA-MTT offers a comprehensive two year therapist program using Take Flight: A Comprehensive Intervention for Students with Dyslexia, a curriculum written by the staff of the Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia and Learning Disorders at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children.  Take Flight advances the success of previous dyslexia intervention programs developed at TSRHC; Alphabetic Phonics, The Dyslexia Training Program, and TSRH Literacy Program.


Take Flight addresses the five components of effective reading instruction identified by the National Reading Panel's research (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, reading comprehension) and is a comprehensive Tier III Intervention for students with dyslexia.

Take Flight findings:

  • significant growth in all areas of reading skill
  • students maintain the benefits of instruction and word reading skills and continue to improve in reading comprehension
  • effective when used in schools by teachers with advanced training in treating learning disorders
  • students with the lowest reading skills acquire the strongest gains from Take Flight instruction.


Applicant Qualifications:

Please understand that to become a Certified Academic Language Therapist you must take the Intro and Advanced Classes, and also accumulate 700 hours of training with a student or students.

Bachelors Degree - official copy of transcript required
3 References (Please copy link and email to your References)
Application

Intro Course


Completion Requirements:
  • 2 Weeks of training during the summer
  • 5 Workshops throughout the following school year
  • 5 Demonstration lessons
  • Practicum with student(s)
  • Various assignments, book reports, article summaries

Advanced Course


Completion Requirements:
  • Successful completion of Intro Course
  • 2 Weeks of training during the summer
  • 5 Workshops throughout the following school year
  • 5 Demonstration lessons
  • Practicum with student(s)
  • Various assignments, book reports, article summaries
  • Final group project
  • Final paper