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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






2. 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.






3. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






4. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






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






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






7. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






8. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






9. 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






10. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






11. r-controlled syllable






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






13. 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.






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






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






16. 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






17. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






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






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

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20. 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






21. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






22. 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.






23. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






24. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






25. 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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26. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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27. English as a second language






28. 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






29. State Board of Eduation






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






31. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






32. 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.






33. 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






34. 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.






35. 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






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






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






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






39. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






40. 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






41. 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






42. 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






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






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






45. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






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






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






48. 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






49. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






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