The Dyslexia Education Specialist Certification Ceremony for the first half of 2024, hosted by the Dyslexia Education Institute of Kookmin University (President Jeong Seung Ryul), was held on Saturday, August 17th. The ceremony was attended by Professors Yang Min Hwa and Kim Bo Bae of the Institute for Dyslexia Education. Kookmin University's dyslexia education specialist qualification requires academic understanding of dyslexia pedagogy and clinical expertise in dyslexia education, and is a public qualification registered as a private qualification with the Korea Vocational Qualification Institute (Registration No. 2022-00554). Previously awarded only to graduate students of Kookmin University's Department of Dyslexia Education, the third-level course was opened to outside special education teachers, elementary and secondary school teachers, and speech therapists from this year.

The Institute of Dyslexia Education at Kookmin University, in conjunction with the ERiD Literacy Clinic, the largest dyslexia education clinic in Korea, provides basic education support projects for Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education and Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education, as well as many regional education support agencies, and is leading clinical research on dyslexia methods optimized for Korean.

“This qualification is differentiated from other dyslexia-related qualifications in that it provides sufficient theoretical education through the dyslexia education graduate program, and it is possible to train data-based teaching decisions using AI education software optimized for Korean.” ‘We hope that this qualification will help to increase the credibility of the dyslexia education department and curriculum, and above all, to train high-quality dyslexia education instructors,’ said Professor Yang Min Hwa, director of the Institute of Dyslexia Education.