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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. 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
Reading Comprehension Support
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
V >
2. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
Multisensory
Whole Language
Ability
Raw score
3. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Mastery level
Frank Smith
Accommodation
Fluency
4. 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.
Reading Comprehension Support
Chall's Stage 3
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
VAKT
5. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Semantics
Modification
Kinesthetic
Visual Learners
6. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Phonics approach
Affix
Grade equivalents
7. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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8. 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
Suffix
Towre
Simultaneous teaching
Auditory Processing
9. English as a second language
ESL
Visual Learners
Chall's Stage 2
Accent
10. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
Affix
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Components of Reading Instruction
11. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.
Reading Comprehension Support
Syllable
Accent
Phonological Awareness
12. Feeling through fingertips
IDEA
Tactile
ADHD
Pre-English
13. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Top-down Reading Approach
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Diagnostic Teaching
Latin layer of language
14. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Phonology
Phoneme
Base Word
Ability
15. 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
Latin layer of language
Derived Score
ESL
Criterion referenced tests
16. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Towre
Prefix
Standardized test
Vowel
17. Closed syllable
Towre
VC
Fluency
RTI
18. 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.
Direct Instruction
Receptive language
Joe Torgesen
Breve
19. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Consonant
Curriculum referenced tests
Vowel
Multi-Sensory Approach
20. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
Vowel Digraph
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Simultaneous teaching
VV
21. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
V >
Vr
WIATII
22. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Age equivalent
Morpheme
Three Layers of Language
Orthography
23. 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
Tilde
IEP
Reliability
24. Academic Language Therapy Association
Chall's Stage 3
Frank Smith
Syntax
ALTA
25. 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
Samuel T. Orton
Linguistic Method
Vowel
Syntax
26. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Breve
Direct Instruction
Texas Education Code 28.06
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
27. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
NICHD
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Raw score
Phonics
28. 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
Reading Comprehension Support
Syntax
Vowel Digraph
Auditory Learners
29. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Percentile/ percentile rank
Sight Words
Reliability
Chall's Stage 0
30. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
VC
Suffix
Open Syllable
Visual Learners
31. 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
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
[-'le
Norm-Referenced Test
V-e
32. Multisensory Structured Language Education
Analytic
Great Vowel Shift
MSLE
Modern English
33. 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.
Diagnostic Teaching
VC
Combination
Joe Torgesen
34. 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
Top-down Reading Approach
Kinesthetic
Vowel Digraph
Anna Gillingham
35. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Base Word
Expressive language
Modern English
Six basic types of syllables
36. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Great Vowel Shift
Base Word
Phoneme
Ability
37. 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
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Matthew Effect
Chall's Stage 2
Samuel T. Orton
38. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Breve
Morphology
ADHD
Norm-referenced tests
39. 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.
Cedilla
Standardized test
Synthetic Instruction
Anglo Saxon
40. 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
Three Layers of Language
Linguistic Method
MSL
Criterion-Referenced Test
41. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
VAKT
Towre
Six basic types of syllables
Stanine Scores
42. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
Middle English
VAKT
SBOE
Rate
43. 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
Diagnostic tests
James Hinshelwood
Percentile/ percentile rank
Auditory Learners
44. 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.
Analytic
Norm-referenced tests
Cognition
Grapheme
45. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Profile
Academic Achievement Tests
Modern English
Multisensory
46. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Visual Processing
Rate
CTOPP
Accuracy
47. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Affix
Mathew Effect
Impulsivity
Texas Education Code 38.003
48. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
IDEA
Quadrigraph
WIATII
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
49. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
V-e
VV
Stanine Scores
Adolf Kusmaul
50. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies
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