Definition of Terms

Multisensory Structured Language Education (MSL or MSLE)

Multisensory Structured Language (MSL) programs should include the following content areas of:

1. phonology and phonological awareness;
2. sound / symbol association;
3. syllables;
4. morphology;
5. syntax;
6. semantics;

and be taught with the following principles of instruction:

1. simultaneous multisensory (VAKT);
2. systematic and cumulative;
3. direct instruction;
4. diagnostic teaching to automaticity; and
5. synthetic / analytic instruction (see charts following for more detail).

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Graduate

A graduate is an individual who successfully completed an IMSLEC-accredited MSLE training coursework and practicum.

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