Merlion Academy – Borderless Training

Welcome to
Merlion Academy

Merlion Academy is authorised by renowned tertiary institutions and professional organisations, including IACT, AETS and LRTAS, to deliver content-rich practitioner qualifications and academic programmes with rigour and depth. Obtain globally recognised certification as an educational therapist, reading therapist, arts therapist, or behavioural therapist, and begin your professional practice with confidence.

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Welcome to
Merlion Academy

Merlion Academy is committed to training aspiring and passionate therapists and special needs community practitioners, equipping them with the right professional knowledge and skills to serve children and adolescents with learning differences and special needs.

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HIGHLIGHTS

ADVANCED CERTIFICATE IN EDUCATIONAL THERAPY

In partnership with SMU Academy, this programme is designed for both employed professionals and self-sponsored individuals who want to step up to be a special educator, therapist, and learning support professional, committed to making a real difference in the lives of students with diverse learning needs. SkillsFuture funding (including SkillsFuture Credit, Workfare Skills Support Scheme, SkillsFuture Mid-Career Enhanced Subsidy and Enhanced Training Support For SMEs) is available to Singaporeans/ Permanent Residents.

SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATIONAL THERAPIST PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATION PROGRAMME

Educational therapy has been classified under procedure code 93.82 (“Educational therapy”) in the ICD-9-CM Volume 3 (the U.S. clinical modification of the WHO’s ICD-9) since the 1980s. It is a non-pharmacological, individualised approach that addresses a wide range of learning difficulties, disorders, differences and deficits.

PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATION PROGRAMMES

Merlion Academy is the only organisation in Asia authorised by the International Association of Counselors & Therapists (IACT) to offer its Practitioner Certification Programmes, specialising in training educational therapists, arts therapists, reading therapists, and special needs community practitioners. Merlion Academy also supervises and verifies trainees’ work in support of their IACT membership application.

IACT is the largest and most prestigious professional body of its kind, based in the USA, with approximately 40,000 members globally. Admission requires fulfilment of rigorous Practitioner Certification Programme requirements, and membership is a mark of high standards and excellence, reflecting the practitioner’s extensive education, training, and evaluation. The IACT’s practitioner certification is widely recognised internationally.

Certified practitioners are clinically knowledgeable, skilled, and highly respected professionals. They are eligible to establish intervention or special educational needs centres globally (subject to local regulations), and provide functional assessment and individualised intervention programmes for children, adolescents, and adults with special educational needs.

IACT’s practitioner certification comprises three tiers: Credentialed, Registered and Board-certified, with Board-certified being the highest.