University Programs Accredited by IDA


The International Dyslexia Association (IDA) has an accreditation program that rigorously reviews educator preparation programs based on an accreditation model that is uniquely aligned with IDA’s Knowledge and Practice Standards for Teachers of Reading (KPS). Alignment with the KPS provides programs with a comprehensive standards-based reading preparation framework to guide the development of their curriculum. Programs that meet these standards are awarded IDA Accreditation.

Programs awarded AccreditationPlus have received IDA accreditation and also produce educators who have engaged in intensive supervised practicum experiences that were sufficiently designed and staffed to promote applied mastery of the principles and practices of structured literacy in the service of preventing reading failure and remediating off-track readers with profiles characteristic of dyslexia.

The following programs have been awarded IDA Accreditation:

INSTITUTION  STATE  CREDENTIAL/PROGRAM

 

ACCREDITATION LEVEL

 

FTF or Online 

Anitoch University Midwest

OH

Dyslexia Certificate Program

AccreditationPlus Online

Arcadia University

PA

Reading Specialist Program PreK-4 Undergraduate with a certificate

Undergraduate with a certificate

AccreditationPlus

Accreditation

 

Bay Path University

MA

Master of Science in Education (MSEd)  in Reading and Literacy Instruction Licensure and Non-Licensure Tracks

Education Specialist Degree (EdS) in  Reading and Literacy Instruction  Licensure and Non-Licensure Tracks

 

Reading Specialist Licensure (Massachusetts)

AccreditationPlus

 

AccreditationPlus

 

Accreditation

Online

Carlow University

PA

M.Ed in Reading Specialist

AccreditationPlus

Online & Hybrid

Central Michigan University MI

Structured Literacy and Language Intervention Certificate (SLLIC)

AccreditationPlus  
City University of Seattle  WA 

Master in Teaching (MIT) – Elementary Education + Reading

Master of Education (M.Ed.): Curriculum and Instruction, Specialized Study: Reading

 

 

Reading Endorsement Program 

Accreditation

 

Accreditation

 

 

Accreditation

 

Clarion University

PA

M.Ed Special Education PK-8/7-12 w/ Reading Concentration

Accreditation

 

Drexel University

PA

Master of Science in Reading (M.S,Ed.) with a concentration in Dyslexia Specialist

AccreditationPlus

Online

Duquesne University

PA

Reading and Literacy Education

AccreditationPlus

 

Fairleigh-Dickinson University

NJ

Orton Gillingham Teacher Training Program

AccreditationPlus

FTF & Hybrid

Faulkner University AL

B.S. Elementary Education

M.Ed. elementary Education (alternative certificate)

Accreditation

Accreditation

 

Gordon College

MA

Master’s Reading Program

AccreditationPlus

 

Mount Saint Joseph’s University

OH

Reading Science Program

OH Reading Endorsement

Dyslexia Certificate: Structured Literacy Interventionist

 

AccreditationPlus

AccreditationPlus

AccreditationPlus

 

 

Pacific University

OR 

Dyslexia Certificate Program

Accreditation

 

Robert Morris University 

PA

Reading Specialist Certificate

Structured Literacy Interventionist

 

AccreditationPlus

Accreditation

FTF
Saint Joseph’s University

 

PA

B.S. Elementary Education PreK-4 and Special Ed

M.S. in Special Education : Systematic Literacy

Reading Interventionist Certificate

 

Accreditation

AccreditationPlus

AccreditationPlus

 

 

Southern CT State University

CT

Master of Science in Reading 

6th Year Certificate in Reading 

Accreditation

Accreditation

FTF and Online

University of Central Arkansas

AR

Master of Science in Reading (M.S,Ed.) in Dyslexia

Graduate Certificate in Dyslexia

AccreditationPlus

AccreditationPlus

 

University of Dayton

OH

Undergrad Dyslexia Certificate

Graduate Dyslexia Certificate Program

AccreditationPlus

AccreditationPlus

FTF & Online

University of Florida

FL

Dyslexia Certificate Program

AccreditationPlus

 

University of Southern Mississippi

MS

M.Ed in Dyslexia Therapy

AccreditationPlus

 

Webster University

MO

Master of Science in Reading (M.S,Ed.) in Reading with a certification

Certificate in Dyslexia

AccreditationPlus

AccreditationPlus

 

William Carey University

 

MS

M. Ed. Dyslexia Therapy

AccreditationPlus

 

Wright State University 

OH

Dyslexia Certificate Program

AccreditationPlus