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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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






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






3. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






4. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






5. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






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






7. 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






8. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






9. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






10. 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






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






12. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






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






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






15. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






16. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






17. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






18. 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.






19. 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.






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






21. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






22. Wide Range Achievement Test






23. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






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






25. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






26. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






27. Multisensory Structured Language Education






28. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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29. 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.






30. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






31. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






32. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






33. 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.






34. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






35. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






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






37. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






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






39. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






40. 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






41. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






42. 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






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






44. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






45. 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






46. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






47. Final stable syllable

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48. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






49. 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.






50. Whole body learning