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Texas Occupations Code - OCC § 403.001. Definitions

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

In this chapter:

(1) “Commission” means the Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation.

(2) “Department” means the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.

(3) “Executive director” means the executive director of the department.

(4) “License holder” means a person who holds a license issued under this chapter.

(5) “Multisensory structured language education” means a program described by the International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council for the treatment of individuals with dyslexia and related disorders that provides instruction in the skills of reading, writing, and spelling:

(A) through program content that includes:

(i) phonology and phonological awareness;

(ii) sound and symbol association;

(iii) syllables;

(iv) morphology;

(v) syntax;  and

(vi) semantics;  and

(B) following principles of instruction that include:

(i) simultaneous multisensory instruction, including visual-auditory-kinesthetic-tactile instruction;

(ii) systematic and cumulative instruction;

(iii) explicit instruction;

(iv) diagnostic teaching to automaticity;  and

(v) synthetic and analytic instruction.

(6) “Qualified instructor” means a person described by Section 403.110.

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