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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






2. 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)






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






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






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






6. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






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






8. 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.






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






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






11. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






12. 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






13. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






14. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






15. Academic Language Therapy Association






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






17. Open syllable






18. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






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






20. 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.






21. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






22. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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23. 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






24. English as a second language






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






26. 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.






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






28. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






29. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






30. 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






31. 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






32. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






33. 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






34. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






35. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






36. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






37. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






38. 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.






39. 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.






40. 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






41. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






42. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






43. Multisensory Structured Language Education






44. 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






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






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






47. 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.






48. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






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






50. 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