Sec. 403.104.  ELIGIBILITY FOR LICENSED DYSLEXIA PRACTITIONER LICENSE.  (a)  To be eligible for a licensed dyslexia practitioner license, an applicant must have:
(1)  earned a bachelor's degree from an accredited public or private institution of higher education;
(2)  successfully completed at least 45 hours of course work in multisensory structured language education from a training program that meets the requirements of Section 403.106;
(3)  completed at least 60 hours of supervised clinical experience in multisensory structured language education;
(4)  completed at least five demonstration lessons of the practice of multisensory structured language education, each observed by an instructor from a training program that meets the requirements of Section 403.106 and followed by a conference with and a written report by the instructor; and
(5)  successfully completed a national multisensory structured language education competency examination approved by the department and administered by a national certifying professional organization.
(b)  Clinical experience required under Subsection (a)(3) must be obtained under:
(1)  the supervision of a qualified instructor or an instructor from an accredited training program that meets the requirements of Section 403.106; and
(2)  guidelines approved by the department.
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1255 (H.B. 461), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2009.