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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Grapheme
Stanine Scores
Phoneme
Cognition
2. 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
Derived Score
Phonology
Rate
3. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
VC
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
CTOPP
Texas Education Code 28.06
4. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Digraph
Phonics approach
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Accuracy
5. State Board of Eduation
Three Layers of Language
Tilde
SBOE
Standard score
6. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Norm-referenced tests
Standard score
Grade equivalents
Achievement test
7. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Modern English
Attention
Percentile
Latin layer of language
8. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
Cedilla
Ability
VV
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
9. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Quadrigraph
Age equivalent
Auditory Processing
Fluency
10. 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
Vowel
Syntax
Cognitive Assessment
Oral Language
11. 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
IEP
Breve
Auditory Learners
12. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
Three Layers of Language
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
CTOPP
13. 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
Rate
Keith Stanovich
Grapheme
Great Vowel Shift
14. 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
Chall's Stage 0
Syllable
Grade equivalents
Modern English
15. 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.
Phonological Awareness
Mastery level
Keith Stanovich
Macron
16. 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
Standard score
CTOPP
Joe Torgesen
Tilde
17. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language
MSLE
Ability
Age equivalent
Pre-English
18. 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
V-e
Adolf Kusmaul
Analytic
The Norman Conquest
19. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Closed Syllable
Comprehension
Accuracy
Semantics
20. 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.
Affix
VC
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Dyslexia
21. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Reading Comprehension Support
Middle English
Great Vowel Shift
Sight Words
22. 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
James Hinshelwood
Accuracy
Samuel T. Orton
Battery
23. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Top-down Reading Approach
Composite Score
Prefix
Cognitive Assessment
24. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Texas Education Code 28.06
Universal Screening
Fluency
Mastery level
25. 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
Chall's Stage 4
Criterion referenced tests
The Norman Conquest
Frank Smith
26. 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
Syllable
Grapheme
Composite Score
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
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.
Consonant
Phonological Awareness
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Diagnostic Teaching
28. Closed syllable
Reliability
VC
Funding
Base Word
29. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Semantics
Kinesthetic
Phonological Awareness
Chall's Stage 5
30. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Norm-referenced tests
Chall's Stage 3
Academic Achievement Tests
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
31. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
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32. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Social language
RTI
ESL
33. 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
IEP
Cognitive Assessment
Standard Scores
Trigraph
34. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Synthetic Instruction
Standardized test
Rate
Phonics approach
35. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
[-'le
Fluency
Impulsivity
Expressive language
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 3
Standard Scores
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
WIATII
37. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Accent
Progress Monitoring
Phoneme
Suffix
38. 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
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Diphthong
Chall's Stage 0
39. 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
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Direct Instruction
Battery
Cedilla
40. 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.
Diagnostic Teaching
Grade equivalents
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
41. Whole body learning
Tilde
Kinesthetic
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Fluency
42. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Derivative
Sound Symbol Association
Anglo Saxon
Accuracy
43. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Phonemic Awareness
Consonant
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Derived Score
44. 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.
Cognition
Accent
Phonics approach
MSLE
45. Multisensory Structured Language Education
Visual Learners
Prefix
SBOE
MSLE
46. Multisensory Structured Language
Multisensory
Analytic
Sound Symbol Association
MSL
47. 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.
Auditory Learners
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Universal Screening
Pre-English
48. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Mastery level
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Base Word
Greek layer of language
49. 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
Age equivalent
Towre
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Samuel T. Orton
50. 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.
Norm-referenced tests
Accent
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Texas Education Code 38.003