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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






2. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






3. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






4. r-controlled syllable






5. 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.






6. 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






7. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school






8. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






9. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss






10. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






11. 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






12. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






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






14. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






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






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






17. Closed syllable






18. Open syllable






19. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






20. Multisensory Structured Language Education






21. 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.






22. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






23. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






24. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






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






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






27. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






28. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






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






30. 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






31. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






32. 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






33. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






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






35. 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.






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






37. 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.






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






39. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






40. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






41. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






42. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






43. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






44. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






45. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






46. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






47. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






48. 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






49. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






50. 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