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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. 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.
Accuracy
Towre
Texas Education Code 38.003
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
2. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Whole Language
CTOPP
Adolf Kusmaul
Sight Words
3. 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.
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Percentile
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Samuel T. Orton
4. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Macron
Sound Symbol Association
Profile
5. 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
Percentile
Pre-English
IMSLEC
Accommodation
6. 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.
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
MSLE
Breve
SBOE
7. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
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8. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Accuracy
Modification
Multi-Sensory Approach
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
9. 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
Academic Achievement Tests
Syntax
Synthetic Instruction
Towre
10. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat
Criterion-Referenced Test
Cognitive Assessment
Mastery level
V-e
11. 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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12. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Old English
Diphthong
Digraph
Morpheme
13. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Diphthong
Tilde
Base Word
Percentile
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
Norm-Referenced Test
Syllable
Vowel
Towre
15. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Chall's Stage 0
Chall's Stage 2
Analytic
SBOE
16. 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
Diphthong
Matthew Effect
Phonemic/ decodable words
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
17. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
Comprehension
V >
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Funding
18. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Open Syllable
Greek layer of language
Cognition
Adolf Kusmaul
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.
Frank Smith
Phonics
Samuel T. Orton
Phonics approach
20. 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
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Great Vowel Shift
Linguistic Method
Grade equivalents
21. 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 -
Middle English
Curriculum referenced tests
Diagnostic Teaching
Cognition
22. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Diagnostic tests
Visual Processing
Achievement test
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
23. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Trigraph
Linguistic Method
Composite Score
IEP
24. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
IDEA
Multisensory
Attention
Simultaneous teaching
25. 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
Old English
VAKT
Orthography
Whole Language
26. 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
Multi-Sensory Approach
Multisensory
Texas Education Code 38.003
Quadrigraph
27. 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
Base Word
VV
Achievement test
Vowel Digraph
28. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Kinesthetic
Raw score
Academic Achievement Tests
MSL
29. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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30. 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.
Whole Language
V-e
Sight Words
Standardized test
31. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Open Syllable
Letter naming Chart
Cognitive Assessment
Trigraph
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
Greek layer of language
Criterion referenced tests
Impulsivity
Phonemic Awareness
33. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
Universal Screening
RTI
Samuel T. Orton
IDEA
34. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
Percentile
Chall's Stage 4
Joe Torgesen
Breve
35. 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.
Vowel Digraph
Consonant
Academic Achievement Tests
ESL
36. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Mastery level
IMSLEC
James Hinshelwood
Phonological Awareness
37. Multisensory Structured Language
MSL
Syllable
VV
Quadrigraph
38. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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39. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo
MSLE
Matthew Effect
Consonant
Expressive language
40. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Open Syllable
Cognitive Assessment
WIATII
Vr
41. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.
Receptive language
Raw score
Keith Stanovich
Grade equivalents
42. Ability to understand and express spoken language
Chall's Stage 4
Phonics
Oral Language
Criterion-Referenced Test
43. 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.
Multi-Sensory Approach
Accommodation
Components of Reading Instruction
Adolf Kusmaul
44. Feeling through fingertips
Funding
Auditory Processing
Tactile
The Norman Conquest
45. 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.
Chall's Stage 4
Old English
Comprehension
ALTA
46. 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
Derivative
Analytic
Criterion referenced tests
The Norman Conquest
47. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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48. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Phonemic Awareness
Age equivalent
Macron
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
49. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
Vowel
Receptive language
Texas Education Code 28.06
Simultaneous teaching
50. 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
Joe Torgesen
Anna Gillingham
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Old English