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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
Adolf Kusmaul
Base Word
MSL
Towre
2. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Vowel Digraph
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Affix
Syntax
3. 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
Grade equivalents
Digraph
Expressive language
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
4. 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
Orthography
James Hinshelwood
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
IDEA
5. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
VC
Keith Stanovich
Criterion referenced tests
6. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Diagnostic tests
Mastery level
Impulsivity
Keith Stanovich
7. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Sight Words
Affix
Texas Education Code 28.06
Analytic
8. 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
Cognitive Assessment
Receptive language
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Joe Torgesen
9. r-controlled syllable
Affix
Quadrigraph
Syllable
Vr
10. 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
Kinesthetic
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Cedilla
Consonant Digraph
11. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood
IEP
Samuel T. Orton
Auditory Processing
Open Syllable
12. 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
Phoneme
Old English
Diphthong
Linguistic Method
13. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Phonics approach
Greek layer of language
CTOPP
Frank Smith
14. 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
V >
VAKT
Achievement test
Dyslexia
15. 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.
RTI
Impulsivity
Sight Words
Multi-Sensory Approach
16. 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.
Trigraph
VV
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Vowel
17. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Ability
Cognition
WIATII
Achievement test
18. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Sound Symbol Association
Trigraph
Academic Achievement Tests
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
19. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Profile
Auditory Processing
Samuel T. Orton
Progress Monitoring
20. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.
Components of Reading Instruction
Phonics approach
Diagnostic tests
Vowel Digraph
21. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Phonics
Grapheme
Phonological Awareness
Chall's Stage 4
22. Feeling through fingertips
Macron
Tactile
Letter naming Chart
ESL
23. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Whole Language
Semantics
Texas Education Code 38.003
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
24. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
ESL
Accuracy
Modern English
Profile
25. 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.
Accent
Oral Language
Digraph
Orthography
26. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Tilde
V-e
Prefix
Percentile/ percentile rank
27. 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.
Base Word
Consonant
Stanine Scores
Cedilla
28. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Criterion referenced tests
Age equivalent
Modern English
Multisensory
29. 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.
Letter naming Chart
VAKT
Social language
WIATII
30. State Board of Eduation
Macron
Cedilla
SBOE
Reliability
31. 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.
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Percentile
Keith Stanovich
Sound Symbol Association
32. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Comprehension
Cedilla
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Auditory Processing
33. 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
Attention
GORT
Anna Gillingham
Morpheme
34. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Middle English
Analytic
Consonant
Multisensory
35. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Great Vowel Shift
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
RTI
36. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Consonant Digraph
Ability
Composite Score
Syllable Instruction
37. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Academic Achievement Tests
IMSLEC
Linguistic Method
Vowel
38. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
Keith Stanovich
Standard deviation
Anna Gillingham
Direct Instruction
39. Ability to understand and express spoken language
Modification
Oral Language
Affix
Suffix
40. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
IEP
Trigraph
Phonemic/ decodable words
Profile
41. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Suffix
Profile
Visual Learners
Reliability
42. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Standardized test
Tilde
Derived Score
Kinesthetic
43. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
VC
VV
Visual Processing
Pre-English
44. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Visual Processing
Components of Reading Instruction
Phonology
V-e
45. 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
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
CTOPP
IMSLEC
Multi-Sensory Approach
46. 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
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Phonemic/ decodable words
The Norman Conquest
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
47. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Simultaneous teaching
Keith Stanovich
Texas Education Code 28.06
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
48. 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.
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Diagnostic tests
Battery
Syllable
49. 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.
Norm-Referenced Test
The Norman Conquest
Breve
NICHD
50. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Criterion-Referenced Test
Morpheme
Reading Comprehension Support
Three Layers of Language