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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
ALTA
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Towre
Middle English
2. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat
Oral Language
Cognitive Assessment
Orthography
Digraph
3. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Kinesthetic
Morpheme
Digraph
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
4. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Mathew Effect
Great Vowel Shift
Diagnostic tests
5. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Letter naming Chart
Receptive language
Open Syllable
Standard Scores
6. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Frank Smith
Receptive language
Diagnostic tests
WIATII
7. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Percentile
Syllable Instruction
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Chall's Stage 3
8. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu
Multisensory
Grade equivalents
Criterion referenced tests
Norm-referenced tests
9. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
Receptive language
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Joe Torgesen
Direct Instruction
10. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.
Fluency
WIATII
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Grade equivalents
11. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.
Phonology
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Breve
Components of Reading Instruction
12. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
NICHD
Quadrigraph
Composite Score
Prefix
13. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.
Digraph
VC
Texas Education Code 28.06
Diagnostic tests
14. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Base Word
Frank Smith
Open Syllable
Stanine Scores
15. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Chall's Stage 4
Social language
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
16. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag
Vowel
Breve
The Norman Conquest
Modification
17. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t
Chall's Stage 5
ADHD
Affix
Anna Gillingham
18. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
Phonology
Consonant
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
IMSLEC
19. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
Diagnostic Teaching
Chall's Stage 0
Impulsivity
Battery
20. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
21. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Vowel
Phonemic/ decodable words
Auditory Processing
Consonant
22. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
IDEA
Criterion-Referenced Test
Visual Learners
NICHD
23. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Stanine Scores
Criterion-Referenced Test
Derived Score
Texas Education Code 38.003
24. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with
25. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.
IEP
Diagnostic Teaching
Norm-referenced tests
Standard score
26. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
Multi-Sensory Approach
Joe Torgesen
Top-down Reading Approach
Greek layer of language
27. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
Profile
Rate
Affix
Funding
28. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Chall's Stage 3
Anglo Saxon
Sound Symbol Association
Modern English
29. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school
Direct Instruction
Phonics approach
Stanine Scores
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
30. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Modification
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Affix
Vowel Digraph
31. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Simultaneous teaching
Derivative
Standard Scores
ADHD
32. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)
Open Syllable
Combination
Chall's Stage 2
Components of Reading Instruction
33. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
34. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.
Analytic
Semantics
Consonant
Synthetic Instruction
35. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Mathew Effect
Sight Words
Greek layer of language
Cognitive Assessment
36. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Modern English
ADHD
Progress Monitoring
VV
37. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Greek layer of language
Adolf Kusmaul
GORT
VAKT
38. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Pre-English
Breve
ALTA
Vowel
39. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi
Visual Learners
Accommodation
Receptive language
Tilde
40. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Trigraph
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Matthew Effect
Chall's Stage 2
41. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Mathew Effect
Achievement test
Macron
Consonant Digraph
42. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Stanine Scores
Orthography
Chall's Stage 3
Standard deviation
43. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.
Standard deviation
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
IDEA
44. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.
MSL
Syllable Instruction
Accent
[-'le
45. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Syllable Instruction
Tactile
Three Layers of Language
MSL
46. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.
Expressive language
Chall's Stage 4
Keith Stanovich
Vowel Digraph
47. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Phonological Awareness
Synthetic Instruction
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
VV
48. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Texas Education Code 38.003
Trigraph
Modern English
GORT
49. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Three Layers of Language
Components of Reading Instruction
Rate
VV
50. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Auditory Learners
Breve
Mathew Effect
Texas Education Code 38.003