Arkansas Code Title 6. Education § 6-41-612. Certified Academic Language Therapists

(1) Create a network of Certified Academic Language Therapists to support public schools for the purpose of providing a specialized dyslexia instructional program designed to provide therapy to public school students with dyslexia or related reading and written language difficulties;

(2) Establish and coordinate a dyslexia therapy training program for educators to increase the number of Certified Academic Language Therapists available to provide diagnostic, explicit, systematic, multisensory language intervention that builds a high degree of accuracy, knowledge, and independence for public school students with dyslexia or written language disorders;

(3) Annually convene the network of Certified Academic Language Therapists or dyslexia therapists in order to:

(4) Coordinate an International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council-accredited course to create additional pathways for certified teachers to develop proficiency in the science of reading in order to grow the network of dyslexia therapists.