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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






2. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






3. 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.






4. 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.






5. 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.






6. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






7. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






8. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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9. 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.






10. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






11. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






12. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






13. 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






14. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






15. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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16. 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






17. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






18. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






19. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






20. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






21. 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.






22. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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23. Feeling through fingertips






24. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






25. 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.






26. 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)






27. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






28. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






29. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






30. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






31. English as a second language






32. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






33. Individual Educational Plan






34. 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






35. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






36. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






37. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






38. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






39. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






40. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






41. 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






42. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






43. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






44. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






45. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss






46. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






47. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






48. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






49. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






50. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)