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Texas Statutes (Last Updated: January 4, 2014) |
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OCCUPATIONS CODE |
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Title 3. HEALTH PROFESSIONS |
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Subtitle G. PROFESSIONS RELATED TO HEARING, SPEECH, AND DYSLEXIA |
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Chapter 403. LICENSED DYSLEXIA PRACTITIONERS AND LICENSED DYSLEXIA THERAPISTS |
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Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS |
Sec. 403.001. DEFINITIONS
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In this chapter:
(1) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of state health services.
(2) "Department" means the Department of State Health Services.
(3) "Executive commissioner" means the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission.
(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.