Understand Dyslexia. Identify It Early. Teach So It Sticks.
An expert-led course covering the science, identification, and treatment of dyslexia, built for the educators who meet struggling readers every day. Led by Dr. Ed Schultz of Midwestern State University, who has spent more than two decades training the people who identify dyslexia.
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The Need: Every Classroom Has a Struggling Reader
Dyslexia is one of the most common learning disabilities in every school in America, and one of the most misunderstood. Educators are asked to spot it, support it, and explain it to families, usually without ever having been taught how.
This course closes that gap in three moves: the real science and definition of dyslexia (and the myths that follow it around), early identification through screening and risk factors, because the earlier the intervention the better the outcome, and treatment through structured literacy: reading instruction that is explicit, systematic, sequential, and cumulative, woven directly into strong core teaching.
The course's central conviction: a struggling reader is not a student who simply needs more reading. They need a different level of explicitness, support, practice, and feedback to access the same learning.
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Dr. Ed Schultz
Dr. Edward Schultz is a Professor of Special Education in the West College of Education at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas, where he trains educational diagnosticians and dyslexia specialists. He is co-author of the Core-Selective Evaluation Process (C-SEP), a widely used approach to identifying specific learning disabilities, and has published extensively on SLD and dyslexia identification, MTSS, and students with emotional and behavioral disorders. He is also the parent of a child with dyslexia.
Is This Course Right for Me?
- Are you a special education teacher serving students with reading goals?
- Are you a classroom teacher who suspects dyslexia but isn't sure what to look for?
- Are you a reading interventionist or literacy coach building your dyslexia knowledge?
- Are you an educational diagnostician or school psychologist refining identification skills?
- Are you a parent trying to understand what your child's school should be doing?
- Does your state now require dyslexia training you never received?
Then this course is for YOU!
What Will You Learn in Dyslexia Identification and Intervention?
You will learn how to:
- Understand what dyslexia is and is not: the history, the science, and the working definition
- Recognize the early warning signs and risk factors, from preschool through the early grades
- Use screening to find at-risk readers before they fail, and understand the path to identification
- Understand why early intervention changes outcomes, and what the research says about waiting
- Implement structured literacy: explicit, systematic, sequential, and cumulative reading instruction
- Embed dyslexia-friendly practices into core classroom instruction so students don't wait for pull-out help
- Plan from student need: adjusting explicitness, practice, and feedback instead of just adding 'more reading'
- Communicate accurately with families about what dyslexia means and what helps
Everything in this course is practical, classroom tested, and designed to support real world special education teaching.
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Who is NASET?
The National Association of Special Education Teachers (NASET) is the leading professional organization dedicated exclusively to supporting special education teachers across the United States.
Committed to advancing excellence in the field, NASET promotes high professional standards, ongoing development, and advocacy to ensure that children with special needs receive the best education possible.
Founded by and for educators, NASET provides a trusted platform for research, resources, and recognition in special education.