Membership Qualifying Program: Reading Therapist (ONLINE)
This minimum 1-year course aims to qualify any candidate who has passed all the program’s requirements of International Association of Counselors & Therapists (IACT) and be admitted as a licensed & practising reading therapist at credentialed membership level. A reading therapist is expected to understand about literacy and language difficulties, disabilities and disorders faced by the children and their different challenges in reading, comprehension, writing and spelling processes. The processes include phonological (from letters and words to sentences), morphological (from phrases and clauses to sentences), semantic (from affixes and root words to discourse) and syntactic (grammar, text types and genres) processing and skills. The candidate will also be practising about the using different tools and protocols for screening, informal & standardised assessment, evaluation and profiling of children with language difficulties together with intervention planning and procedures.
IACT is a prestigious professional body based in the USA that admit members who have fulfilled the rigorous requirements of the professional qualification programs to obtain practising memberships as counselors and therapists. The membership with IACT is a mark of high standard and excellence. Practising members are not only knowledgeable and bound by ethical standards, but are also highly respected as well. They are eligible to work in many countries such as North American, Asian and European countries etc.
The three level of IACT’s membership are Credentialed, Registered and Board Certified. A Board Certified member holds the highest status of the membership.
As a requirement of IACT, all coursework, assignments and essays of a candidate must be supervised and verified by an approved instructor of IACT. All works of the candidate are required to be submitted by the instructor to the IACT’s Assessment Board based in the USA for final assessment. A candidate must complete all 5 modules and fulfill the program’s requirements before being awarded practising membership. Only upon completion of the Credentialed level modules, will the candidate be allowed to proceed to the Registered level modules.
Merlion Academy is authorised to supervise and verify candidates’ work seeking to gain admission as an IACT member. Student member will also be supported by the Singapore and Malaysia IACT-chapters.
The modules are:
- Module 1: Literacy as Process and Product
- Module 2: Literacy and Language Difficulties, Disabilities and Disorders
- Module 3: Screening and Assessment for Literacy and Language Difficulties, Disabilities and Disorders
- Module 4: Literacy and Language Contents and Skills
- Module 5: Intervention (focus more on literacy and language issues)
Case Study Presentation Symposium
Trainee will be provided a detailed case study to prepare for his/her oral defense basing on all the five series he/she has acquired from the program.
* Module exemptions will be granted based on individual’s merits and to the graduate of relevant diploma accredited by International Association of Therapists.
Assessment:
1. Assessment is based on coursework, assignments and essays.
2. Guided learning hours to fulfil: 30 hours per module (150 hours in total).
3. Non-guided learning hours (reading time and journal papers writing for publishing): 30 hours per module (150 hours in total).
Entry Requirements:
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Age |
21 years and above |
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Minimum qualification |
Diploma graduate in special education, psychoeducational therapy, speech & language therapy, occupational therapy, diagnostic projective & drawing therapy or psychology |
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English requirement |
1. Pearson Test of English (PTE) 53; or 2. IELTS 6.0 (reading and writing must be at 6.0); or 3. A pass in English Language paper at GCE Ordinary Level 4. TOEFL 65 5. Equivalent (Pearson Versant English Test). Students can attend Pearson Online English (POE) to brush up on English. |
Course Fees:
| (Non-refundable one-time application fee of SGD 95.00 is payable upon application) | |
| Course Fee | SGD 1,500.00 per module |
| Marking Fee | SGD 50.00 per module |
| Total | SGD 1,550.00 per module |
| Payment mode | Stripe / Credit card / Alipay |
| Refund Terms for Course Fee only | 90% – more than 28 days before course commencement 50% – less than 28 days before course commencement 10% – less than 3 days before course commencement 0% – more than 3 days after the course commencement |
