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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






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.






4. 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






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






6. 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






7. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






8. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






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






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






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






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






13. 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






14. 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.






15. 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.






16. 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.






17. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






18. 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.






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






20. 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






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






22. Open syllable






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






24. Whole body learning






25. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






26. 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.






27. Closed syllable






28. 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.






29. 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






30. 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.






31. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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

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33. 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






34. 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






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






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






37. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






38. Wide Range Achievement Test






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






40. 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






41. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






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






43. 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.






44. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






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






46. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






47. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






48. 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.






49. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






50. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.