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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. 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
Achievement test
Towre
Visual Processing
Standard Scores
2. 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.
Cognition
Consonant
Chall's Stage 5
Multi-Sensory Approach
3. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
WRAT
Fluency
Syntax
Standard score
4. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Impulsivity
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Tilde
Receptive language
5. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Modern English
Derived Score
6. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Standard score
Vowel Digraph
Letter naming Chart
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
7. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Three Layers of Language
Phonemic/ decodable words
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Percentile
8. 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
Matthew Effect
Diphthong
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
WRAT
9. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Quadrigraph
Orthography
V >
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
10. 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.
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Simultaneous teaching
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Comprehension
11. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi
The Norman Conquest
Morphology
ESL
Tilde
12. 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
Synthetic Instruction
Whole Language
Letter naming Chart
Accent
13. 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.
Chall's Stage 5
Vowel Digraph
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Sound Symbol Association
14. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Three Layers of Language
Consonant Digraph
Letter naming Chart
Diphthong
15. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Adolf Kusmaul
Multi-Sensory Approach
Phonics
Tactile
16. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
Comprehension
Phonological Awareness
Accent
Criterion-Referenced Test
17. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Phonological Awareness
Keith Stanovich
Great Vowel Shift
Direct Instruction
18. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Latin layer of language
Sight Words
Oral Language
Expressive language
19. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Auditory Processing
The Norman Conquest
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
20. Multisensory Structured Language Education
MSLE
Standard deviation
Chall's Stage 3
Closed Syllable
21. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
Impulsivity
Kinesthetic
VAKT
RTI
22. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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23. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Analytic
Cognition
Receptive language
Diphthong
24. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale
Three Layers of Language
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Standard Scores
GORT
25. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Multisensory
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Sound Symbol Association
Norm-referenced tests
26. State Board of Eduation
IMSLEC
SBOE
IEP
Diagnostic tests
27. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies
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28. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Affix
Phonemic Awareness
Reading Comprehension Support
Consonant
29. 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
Whole Language
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Anna Gillingham
Syntax
30. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Greek layer of language
Impulsivity
MSLE
Multisensory
31. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
Phonology
Grapheme
Multi-Sensory Approach
Standard Scores
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
Vowel Digraph
Criterion referenced tests
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Chall's Stage 1
33. 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
Mastery level
Criterion-Referenced Test
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
34. Feeling through fingertips
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Tactile
Criterion-Referenced Test
Samuel T. Orton
35. 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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36. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
CTOPP
Vowel
MSLE
The Norman Conquest
37. 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.
Frank Smith
Vowel
Phoneme
Anglo Saxon
38. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Derivative
Adolf Kusmaul
Trigraph
39. Final stable syllable
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40. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
James Hinshelwood
WIATII
Anna Gillingham
ESL
41. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Derived Score
Simultaneous teaching
42. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Breve
VAKT
Cognition
V-e
43. 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
James Hinshelwood
Multi-Sensory Approach
Great Vowel Shift
Syllable
44. English as a second language
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
ESL
Consonant Digraph
[-'le
45. 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
VC
Funding
Top-down Reading Approach
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
46. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
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47. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Texas Education Code 38.003
Syllable Instruction
Keith Stanovich
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
48. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Criterion referenced tests
Letter naming Chart
V-e
Morphology
49. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
Ability
VV
Analytic
Prefix
50. 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
Grapheme
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Samuel T. Orton
Old English