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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






2. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development


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






4. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






5. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






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






7. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






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






9. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






10. State Board of Eduation






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






12. 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






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






14. 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






15. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships


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






17. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






18. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






19. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






20. 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






21. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






22. 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.






23. 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.






24. 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.






25. 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






26. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






27. 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






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






29. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






30. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






31. 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






32. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






33. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.


34. Individual Educational Plan






35. Multisensory Structured Language Education






36. 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.






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






38. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






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






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






41. Wide Range Achievement Test






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


43. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






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.






45. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






46. 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






47. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






48. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






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. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound