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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. 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
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Chall's Stage 4
Grade equivalents
Samuel T. Orton
2. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Auditory Learners
Morphology
Linguistic Method
Top-down Reading Approach
3. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
Components of Reading Instruction
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Accuracy
Stanine Scores
4. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Greek layer of language
Social language
Phonemic/ decodable words
Simultaneous teaching
5. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Fluency
Trigraph
Impulsivity
Standard score
6. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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7. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn
Cedilla
Achievement test
Morpheme
VC
8. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Cedilla
WIATII
Social language
9. Multisensory Structured Language Education
MSLE
Tactile
Norm-referenced tests
Norm-Referenced Test
10. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale
Diagnostic Teaching
GORT
Mastery level
Sound Symbol Association
11. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
IDEA
Phoneme
Three Layers of Language
Rate
12. 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.
Sound Symbol Association
Curriculum referenced tests
Derivative
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
13. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Chall's Stage 1
Criterion-Referenced Test
RTI
Mastery level
14. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl
Profile
Cognition
Whole Language
Towre
15. 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
Norm-Referenced Test
Prefix
IDEA
Cognitive Assessment
16. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.
Dyslexia
Accommodation
Achievement test
NICHD
17. Wide Range Achievement Test
WRAT
Open Syllable
Chall's Stage 0
Phonological Awareness
18. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
MSLE
Visual Processing
Morphology
Derived Score
19. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.
WIATII
Diagnostic tests
Academic Achievement Tests
Sight Words
20. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy
MSLE
Oral Language
Funding
Letter naming Chart
21. Feeling through fingertips
RTI
Tactile
Mastery level
Accommodation
22. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Quadrigraph
Closed Syllable
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Affix
23. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
V >
Rate
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
24. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Phonemic Awareness
V-e
Joe Torgesen
Orthography
25. 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.
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Attention
Norm-Referenced Test
Middle English
26. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Prefix
Tactile
Consonant
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
27. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Phonological Awareness
Syntax
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
VC
28. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Cedilla
Diagnostic tests
Percentile
Mathew Effect
29. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.
Linguistic Method
Norm-referenced tests
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Texas Education Code 38.003
30. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Modern English
Accuracy
[-'le
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
31. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents
Trigraph
MSLE
Grapheme
Funding
32. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
NICHD
Suffix
IDEA
ADHD
33. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Frank Smith
NICHD
Rate
Texas Education Code 28.06
34. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
NICHD
Comprehension
CTOPP
Combination
35. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes
Derivative
Sight Words
Percentile/ percentile rank
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
36. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
Consonant
SBOE
Battery
Comprehension
37. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Tilde
Accuracy
Cognitive Assessment
Samuel T. Orton
38. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Samuel T. Orton
Phonology
WIATII
39. 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.
Oral Language
Keith Stanovich
Auditory Learners
Linguistic Method
40. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
CTOPP
Joe Torgesen
Cognition
Chall's Stage 2
41. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Age equivalent
Stanine Scores
Phonics approach
Anna Gillingham
42. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer
Age equivalent
Criterion-Referenced Test
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Universal Screening
43. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
Anglo Saxon
Middle English
The Norman Conquest
Universal Screening
44. 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.
Accent
Standard Scores
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Suffix
45. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
VC
Attention
Middle English
46. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
Mathew Effect
Cedilla
Direct Instruction
Phonological Awareness
47. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.
CTOPP
Standard deviation
Modern English
MSL
48. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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49. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Phonics
Auditory Learners
Academic Achievement Tests
50. English as a second language
Raw score
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Chall's Stage 3
ESL