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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






2. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






3. 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






4. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






5. Feeling through fingertips






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






7. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






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






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


10. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






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. 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






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






14. 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






15. 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






16. 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






17. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development


18. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






19. 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






20. 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.






21. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






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






23. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






24. 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






25. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






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






27. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.






28. 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






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






30. r-controlled syllable






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






32. 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






33. Academic Language Therapy Association






34. 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






35. 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






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


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






38. 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






39. Wide Range Achievement Test






40. Multisensory Structured Language Education






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






42. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






43. 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.






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






45. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






46. 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.






47. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






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






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






50. 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