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:
STATE | INSTITUTION | CREDENTIAL/PROGRAM | ACCREDITATION LEVEL |
AR | University of Central Arkansas |
UGRAD Elementary Education |
Accreditation/AccreditationPlus |
CO |
Colorado College | GRAD Literacy Intervention Specialist Program | AccreditationPlus |
CT | Fairfield University | GRAD Reading and Language Development | AccreditationPlus |
Southern CT State University | GRAD Reading | AccreditationPlus | |
FL | Southeastern University |
UNGRAD Elementary Education with Reading/ESOL Endorsements |
Accreditation |
UNGRAD Special Education with Reading/ESOL Endorsements |
AccreditationPlus |
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University of Florida | Dyslexia Certificate Program | AccreditationPlus | |
MA | Gordon College | GRAD: Reading Specialist | AccreditationPlus |
MS | University of Southern Mississippi | GRAD Dyslexia Therapy Master’s of Education in Dyslexia Therapy |
AccreditationPlus AccreditationPlus |
William Carey University | GRAD Dyslexia Therapy | AccreditationPlus | |
MO | Webster University |
MA in Reading with a Graduate Certificate in Dyslexia |
AccreditationPlus |
Graduate Certificate in Dyslexia |
Accreditation |
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NJ | Fairleigh-Dickinson University | Orton Gillingham Teacher Training Program | AccreditationPlus |
NY | Columbia University | GRAD Reading Specialist | AccreditationPlus |
OH | Anitoch University Midwest | CERTIFICATE: Dyslexia Certificate Program | AccreditationPlus |
Mount Saint Joseph’s University |
GRAD: Reading Science Program |
AccreditationPlus | |
Notre Dame College | Reading Endorsement | AccreditationPlus | |
University of Dayton | UGRAD Early Childhood/Middle Level/Intervention Specialist GRAD Reading Endorsement |
AccreditationPlus | |
PA | Arcadia University |
GRAD: Reading Specialist Program PreK-4 Undergraduate with a certificate |
AccreditationPlus Accreditation |
Carlow | MEd in Reading Specialist | AccreditationPlus | |
Clarion University | GRAD: Special Education: Reading Concentration | Accreditation | |
Drexel University |
GRAD Special Education: Multisensory Reading Concentration Master’s of Special Education – Dyslexia Specialist |
AccreditationPlus AccreditationPlus |
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Robert Morris University |
GRAD: Reading Specialist Structured Literacy Intervention Certificate |
Accreditation/AccreditationPlus Accreditation |
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Saint Joseph’s University |
GRAD: Special Education M.S.: Special Education/Systemic Literacy B.S.: Elementary Education PreK-4 Special Education Reading Intervention Certificate Accreditation Plus |
AccreditationPlus |
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Temple University | UGRAD: Early Childhood Education (ECED) UGRAD: ECED/Special Education |
Accreditation |
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TX | Southern Methodist University | GRAD: Reading and Writing AccreditationPlus | AccreditationPlus |