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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Fluency
Components of Reading Instruction
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
MSLE
2. Final stable syllable
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3. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Phonics approach
Comprehension
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
4. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
Derived Score
Morphology
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Macron
5. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Orthography
Joe Torgesen
Diphthong
Cognitive Assessment
6. 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.
IMSLEC
Reliability
Cognition
Universal Screening
7. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
Breve
Diagnostic tests
Affix
Battery
8. 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
NICHD
Semantics
Matthew Effect
Samuel T. Orton
9. 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
Great Vowel Shift
Phonology
Analytic
Cognitive Assessment
10. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies
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11. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy
Syllable
Funding
Macron
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
12. 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
Phonology
Dyslexia
Criterion-Referenced Test
Greek layer of language
13. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Standard score
Universal Screening
Stanine Scores
Chall's Stage 1
14. 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.
Sight Words
Syllable
Academic Achievement Tests
The Norman Conquest
15. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Closed Syllable
MSLE
Norm-Referenced Test
Matthew Effect
16. 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.
Breve
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Semantics
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
17. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
Chall's Stage 2
Consonant Digraph
Letter naming Chart
IDEA
18. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Expressive language
Synthetic Instruction
V-e
Adolf Kusmaul
19. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Linguistic Method
Age equivalent
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Old English
20. 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
Cedilla
Chall's Stage 5
V >
21. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Composite Score
Achievement test
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Funding
22. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun
Anglo Saxon
Auditory Learners
Cedilla
Impulsivity
23. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Texas Education Code 28.06
Cedilla
Phonics
Quadrigraph
24. 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
Oral Language
Joe Torgesen
Auditory Processing
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
25. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Morpheme
Suffix
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Percentile
26. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
WIATII
The Norman Conquest
Open Syllable
Mastery level
27. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Trigraph
Age equivalent
VC
Phonological Awareness
28. 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
WIATII
Texas Education Code 28.06
Visual Learners
Criterion referenced tests
29. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
MSLE
Profile
Dyslexia
Composite Score
30. 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.
Diphthong
Impulsivity
Syllable
Middle English
31. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Percentile
Morphology
Visual Processing
Mastery level
32. Individual Educational Plan
Norm-referenced tests
Raw score
IEP
Orthography
33. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
Quadrigraph
SBOE
Attention
Age equivalent
34. 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
Quadrigraph
Criterion referenced tests
RTI
Composite Score
35. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Texas Education Code 38.003
Phonics approach
Progress Monitoring
Grade equivalents
36. Academic Language Therapy Association
Phoneme
Syllable Instruction
ALTA
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
37. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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38. 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
Affix
Morpheme
The Norman Conquest
Breve
39. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Universal Screening
ALTA
Phoneme
Mastery level
40. 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.
Diagnostic Teaching
Affix
Modern English
Standardized test
41. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Standard score
Matthew Effect
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Base Word
42. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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43. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together
Macron
Modern English
Phonics approach
Prefix
44. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Modification
Stanine Scores
Visual Processing
45. 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.
Consonant
Reading Comprehension Support
Consonant Digraph
IEP
46. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)
Auditory Learners
Chall's Stage 4
Combination
Simultaneous teaching
47. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Digraph
Curriculum referenced tests
Synthetic Instruction
Standard deviation
48. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Phonics
V-e
ESL
Curriculum referenced tests
49. Feeling through fingertips
Profile
Tactile
Criterion referenced tests
RTI
50. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Joe Torgesen
Percentile
Phonemic Awareness
Old English
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