(a) To be eligible for a licensed dyslexia therapist license, an applicant must have:
(1) earned at least a master’s degree from an accredited public or private institution of higher education;
(2) successfully completed at least 200 hours of course work in multisensory structured language education from a training program that meets the requirements of Section 403.106;
(3) completed at least 700 hours of supervised clinical experience in multisensory structured language education;
(4) completed at least 10 demonstration lessons of the practice of multisensory structured language education, each observed by an instructor from a training program that meets the requirements of Section 403.106 and followed by a conference with and a written report by the instructor; and
(5) successfully completed a national multisensory structured language education competency examination approved by the department and administered by a national certifying professional organization.
(b) Clinical experience required under Subsection (a)(3) must be obtained under:
(1) the supervision of a qualified instructor or an instructor from an accredited training program that meets the requirements of Section 403.106; and
(2) guidelines approved by the department.