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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.






2. Open syllable






3. 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.






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






5. 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






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






7. 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






8. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






9. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






10. 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.






11. Multisensory Structured Language






12. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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13. 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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14. 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.






15. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






16. 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.






17. 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






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






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






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. 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






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






24. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






25. 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






26. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






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






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






29. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






30. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






31. 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






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






33. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






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






35. 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.






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






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






38. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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39. 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.






40. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






41. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






42. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






43. 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.






44. 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






45. Academic Language Therapy Association






46. State Board of Eduation






47. 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






48. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






49. 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






50. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek