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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






2. 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






3. 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.






4. 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






5. 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.






6. Individual Educational Plan






7. Final stable syllable


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






9. 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


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






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






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


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






14. 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






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






16. 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.






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






18. 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






19. 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






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






21. 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.






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






23. 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.






24. English as a second language






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


26. 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






27. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






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






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






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






31. Closed syllable






32. 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






33. 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.






34. 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






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






36. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






37. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






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






39. 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.






40. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






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






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






43. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development


44. 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 -






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






46. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






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






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






49. 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.






50. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.