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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. 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.






2. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






3. 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.






4. 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.






5. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






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






7. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






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






9. 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






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






11. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






12. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






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






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






15. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






16. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






17. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






18. 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






19. 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






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

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21. 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.






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






23. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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.






30. 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






31. 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.






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






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






34. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






35. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






36. English as a second language






37. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






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






39. 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.






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






41. Academic Language Therapy Association






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






43. 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






44. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






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






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






47. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






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






49. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






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