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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






2. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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3. State Board of Eduation






4. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






5. 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






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






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

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8. 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.






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






10. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






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






12. 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.






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






14. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






15. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






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






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






18. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






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






20. 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






21. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






22. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






23. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






24. 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






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






26. 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






27. 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






28. 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.






29. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






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






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






32. 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






33. Multisensory Structured Language






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






35. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






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

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37. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






38. Academic Language Therapy Association






39. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






40. 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.






41. 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.






42. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






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






44. 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.






45. 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






46. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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47. 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






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






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






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