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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






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






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






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






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






7. 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.






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






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






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

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11. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






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






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






14. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






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






16. Multisensory Structured Language






17. Wide Range Achievement Test






18. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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19. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






20. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






21. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






22. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






23. 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






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






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






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






27. 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






28. 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.






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






30. 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)






31. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






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






33. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






34. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






35. 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






36. 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.






37. 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






38. 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






39. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






40. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






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






42. Whole body learning






43. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






44. 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






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






46. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail






47. Multisensory Structured Language Education






48. r-controlled syllable






49. 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.






50. 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.