Become a Certified Academic Language Therapist!
(Virtual Options Available)

Academic Language Therapy Training

Are you passionate about helping individuals overcome challenges in reading and writing? Join the ranks of skilled professionals dedicated to making a difference in the lives of those with dyslexia and related disorders through our intensive Academic Language Therapy (ALT) Training program. Over the course of two years, you will immerse yourself in evidence-based strategies that empower struggling readers and writers.

What Is Academic Language Therapy Training?

The ALT training is an accredited program designed to equip you with the most effective methods for addressing reading and written language difficulties. Through rigorous education, supervised practice, and the latest research, you will harness the tools necessary to support learners on their journey to academic success.

Accreditation and Professional Development

Our program is proudly recognized by the Academic Language Therapy Association (ALTA) and accredited by the International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council (IMSLEC) and the International Dyslexia Association (IDA). ALT is included in the CDE Approved READ Act Professional Development, ensuring that you receive top-tier training recognized nationally across the educational landscape.

Program Details

  • Dates: July 14 – August 1, 2025
  • Location: Colorado Springs, CO
  • Virtual Option Now Available!
  • Early Registration: Sign up by June 1, 2025, for a $200 discount!
  • Final Registration Deadline: June 15, 2025

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Comprehensive Coursework

Throughout the program, you’ll navigate the READ Act approved curriculum Take Flight: A Comprehensive Intervention for Students with Dyslexia, based on the Orton-Gillingham approach from the Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia at Scottish Rite for Children.

Year 1 Highlights:

  • 15 Days of Classroom Instruction: Dive deep into the structure and history of written English, uncover the science of literacy, and explore dyslexia. Engage with hands-on activities that develop essential skills in reading, spelling, handwriting, and comprehension instruction..
  • Five Saturday Seminars: Expand your expertise through advanced discussions on multisensory instructional strategies, tailored lesson design, and effective assessment practices.
  • Supervised Practicum: Gain real-world experience through a guided practicum including 5 observations where you will provide direct instruction to students with dyslexia or similar challenges.

By the end of Year 1, you’ll be poised to sit for the ALTA national exam and achieve your certification as a Certified Academic Language Practitioner (CALP).

Year 2 Highlights:

  • Advanced Classroom Instruction: Extend your knowledge with five additional days focusing on specialized assessment techniques and advanced therapeutic practices.
  • Five Saturday Seminars: Delve into advanced methodologies for reading instruction, evaluating curriculum choices, and implementing evidence-based strategies in diverse learning environments.
  • Supervised Practicum: Enhance your skills with in-depth guided practice including 5 advanced observations as you continue to work closely with students.

Upon completing Year 2 and the required practicum hours, you may take the ALTA national exam to become a Certified Academic Language Therapist (CALT).

Additionally, you’ll have the option to participate in an intensive day of training on Jet: A Fast-Paced Intervention for Secondary Students.

Graduate Credit Available

All coursework is eligible for graduate credit and can be applied towards a master’s degree, making this an invaluable opportunity for your professional growth.

Enrollment Requirements

To apply for the ALT program, please prepare the following:

  • A college transcript (bachelor’s degree minimum; master’s degree required for CALT certification)
  • A letter of intent expressing your passion for literacy intervention
  • Two professional recommendations from employers or academic mentors
  • Virtual attendance at an informational session

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To register for the course or learn more, please contact [email protected].

“The person who does things differently is the one who changes the world.”
— Steve Jobs

New Courses Coming to Colorado Springs and Castle Rock Summer 2025!

Jet: A Fast Paced Reading Intervention

A one-year curriculum for individuals with dyslexia fourteen years and older.

Upcoming Courses:

• Castle Rock 7/30/25 9a-3p

Virtual Option Now Available!

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Build: A K-1 Early Reading Intervention

For K-1 students who have been identified at risk for dyslexia.

Upcoming Course: 6/23/25 9a-3p

Virtual Option Now Available!

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Turbo Start: A Dyslexia Curriculum for Newly Identified Students with Dyslexia

A nine-week, evidence-based dyslexia intervention that can be used as part of a standard protocol dyslexia instruction program

Additional Courses Available

Most courses can be customized. Requirements include providing a location and audio/visual equipment. Six-person minimum per course. For more information please Contact Us.

Parents and educators in Colorado are speaking out that it’s time to identify students with characteristics of dyslexia and provide the appropriate instruction. Although Colorado public schools do not assess or diagnose dyslexia, the identification of students with characteristics of dyslexia is sufficient to plan and implement reading intervention for those students. Most Colorado schools have procedures in place through the READ Act or MTSS framework to support screening. Now we must get to identification and provide intervention!

CLLC offers a seminar for educators responsible for administering tests and performance measures, interpreting assessment results to identify students with a profile of dyslexia, and recommending specific instructional intervention. This seminar will highlight:

  • Understanding the definition of dyslexia and its importance in the identification of a profile of dyslexia.
  • Identifying a profile of dyslexia.
  • Reviewing case studies of student profiles both with and without dyslexia
  • Recognizing co-morbid disorders including ADHD.
  • Making appropriate intervention decisions.
  • Case studies may be submitted by those attending.

Letters are the springboard for reading. Beginning readers must be able to quickly identify letters before they can begin to recognize familiar letter sequences. Not only does research support that letter naming be accurate, but it must also be rapid. Letter identification must be effortless. Teachers who provide literacy instruction must understand the underlying principles and terminology of effective alphabet instruction and decoding.

Our seven hour Alphabet/Beginning Phonics uses an Orton-Gillingham approach providing teachers with multisensory methods which focus on:

  • Rapid association of letter symbols with names and sounds
  • Principles of effective instruction and Socratic questioning
  • Teaching to automaticity and early identification and intervention

Audience:

  • Pre-k through 2nd grade
  • Intermediate Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventionists
  • Special Education staff

– 6 CEUs
– CDE READ Act funds apply

This course is designed for teachers who desire a strong foundation in scientifically based reading research from which to make judgments about what to teach and how to teach it. Course content is designed to produce successful outcomes for all students and is especially important for those working with students at risk of failing to learn to read or with those who have already fallen behind.

Topics covered include oral language development, phonemic awareness, systematic phonics, orthography, handwriting, fluency, comprehension, morphology, history of the language, dyslexia, and assessment. Components of effective instruction will address environmental, cultural, and social factors impacting student performance.

Rite Flight is a research-based classroom fluency and comprehension program from the Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children (TSRH). This program can be used as supplemental or intervention instruction by classroom teachers, reading specialists, and special education teachers, and utilized in conjunction with a variety of core curricula that employ evidence-based components in phonemic awareness and phonics. Data collected through TSRH demonstrates clinically significant improvements in reading rate on curriculum-based and standardized measures. Rite Flight Comprehension may also be used for more intensive instruction within the framework of a Response-to Intervention (RTI) model of reading instruction.

  • Progress monitoring included.
  • Training takes about 6 hours.
  • CE credit is available.
  • In addition to a course fee, there is also a curriculum fee (may be shared by teachers within building)

Research demonstrates a strong link between children’s early abilities in phonemic awareness and their later reading skills. Struggling readers are apt to have phonological processing deficits that are causal to their word-reading deficits. Extensive meta-analysis demonstrates the powerful effect of phonemic awareness training on reading and spelling, especially when the prevention and early remediation occurs during Pre-K through 2nd grade.

Our ten hour Introduction to Phonemic Awareness uses an Orton-Gillingham approach by providing teachers with multisensory methods.

  • The structure of sounds, syllables, words, and sentences
  • Engaging, playful and highly effective for teaching phonemic awareness, metacognitive strategies and listening skills
  • Accelerated reading and writing growth of entire classroom
  • Reduced incidence of children with reading delays

Participants will leave with both teacher and student materials to be used immediately.

Audience:

  • Pre-K through 2nd grade teachers
  • Intermediate Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventionists
  • Special Education staff

– 10 CEUs (1.5 day training)
– CDE READ Act funds apply

ALT is accredited by the International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council (IMSLEC) and the International Dyslexia Association (IDA). CLLC is recognized by the Colorado Department of Education as a professional development provider.

“Dyslexia isn’t a barrier to achievement—it’s a different path to success.”

“Dyslexia isn’t a barrier to achievement—it’s a different path to success.”

— Henry Winkler