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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. 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.
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Norm-Referenced Test
VV
Sight Words
2. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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3. 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.
Combination
Age equivalent
Anglo Saxon
Visual Processing
4. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
Synthetic Instruction
CTOPP
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Chall's Stage 4
5. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Samuel T. Orton
Norm-Referenced Test
Phonemic/ decodable words
GORT
6. 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
Funding
Breve
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Trigraph
7. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness
Standard score
Social language
James Hinshelwood
Curriculum referenced tests
8. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Rate
Standard Scores
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Vr
9. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Progress Monitoring
Multi-Sensory Approach
Curriculum referenced tests
Syllable
10. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
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Curriculum referenced tests
Fluency
WIATII
11. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
ADHD
Six basic types of syllables
Whole Language
Base Word
12. 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
Syllable
Progress Monitoring
James Hinshelwood
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
13. 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.
Kinesthetic
Achievement test
Accommodation
Tilde
14. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Raw score
ALTA
V-e
Tactile
15. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Three Layers of Language
Grade equivalents
Old English
Receptive language
16. 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.
Phonemic/ decodable words
Accuracy
Social language
Dyslexia
17. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Base Word
James Hinshelwood
Orthography
Standardized test
18. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat
Prefix
Macron
Matthew Effect
Cognitive Assessment
19. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Social language
Curriculum referenced tests
Greek layer of language
Direct Instruction
20. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Modification
Cedilla
Phonology
Multi-Sensory Approach
21. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Tactile
Norm-referenced tests
Phonological Awareness
22. 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
Diagnostic tests
Whole Language
Direct Instruction
Semantics
23. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Stanine Scores
Rate
IDEA
Digraph
24. Wide Range Achievement Test
ESL
Derivative
WRAT
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
25. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Grade equivalents
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
VC
Synthetic Instruction
26. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
Receptive language
VV
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Digraph
27. Ability to understand and express spoken language
Anna Gillingham
Oral Language
Standardized test
Derivative
28. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
IDEA
Samuel T. Orton
VAKT
Great Vowel Shift
29. 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.
Standard Scores
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Reading Comprehension Support
Affix
30. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Chall's Stage 1
Greek layer of language
Pre-English
V-e
31. Final stable syllable
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32. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Visual Learners
WIATII
Vowel Digraph
Chall's Stage 5
33. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Six basic types of syllables
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Multisensory
Universal Screening
34. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
Pre-English
VAKT
Morphology
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
35. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Pre-English
ESL
Consonant
WIATII
36. 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
Chall's Stage 0
Old English
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Dyslexia
37. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Profile
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Phonological Awareness
38. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Chall's Stage 0
Standardized test
Accent
39. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
James Hinshelwood
Morpheme
Visual Learners
Top-down Reading Approach
40. 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.
Norm-referenced tests
ALTA
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Auditory Processing
41. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Multi-Sensory Approach
Impulsivity
Cognitive Assessment
Vowel
42. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Modification
Criterion-Referenced Test
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
CTOPP
43. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
NICHD
Linguistic Method
Oral Language
Chall's Stage 5
44. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Accuracy
Profile
Achievement test
Synthetic Instruction
45. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes
Percentile/ percentile rank
Visual Learners
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Modification
46. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Percentile
Breve
Phonemic/ decodable words
Accent
47. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Phonological Awareness
Syntax
Social language
Grapheme
48. 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
Joe Torgesen
MSL
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Expressive language
49. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Oral Language
Expressive language
Syllable Instruction
Old English
50. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Adolf Kusmaul
MSL
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Funding