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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
NICHD
Phonemic Awareness
Funding
2. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
IDEA
Tilde
Achievement test
Kinesthetic
3. 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
Accuracy
Direct Instruction
Digraph
Norm-Referenced Test
4. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Raw score
Macron
Auditory Learners
Kinesthetic
5. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Impulsivity
Old English
Direct Instruction
Rate
6. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Semantics
ALTA
Derivative
Chall's Stage 5
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
Norm-Referenced Test
James Hinshelwood
Dyslexia
Vr
8. 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.
Samuel T. Orton
Cognition
RTI
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
9. 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
Quadrigraph
MSL
Top-down Reading Approach
Tilde
10. 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
Grapheme
Tactile
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
VV
11. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Chall's Stage 1
Frank Smith
Closed Syllable
12. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Chall's Stage 4
Auditory Processing
Diphthong
Universal Screening
13. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Receptive language
Phonology
Combination
14. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Cognition
Morphology
ADHD
Standard deviation
15. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Syllable Instruction
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Percentile
Stanine Scores
16. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Anglo Saxon
Base Word
Open Syllable
Middle English
17. 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
Linguistic Method
Accuracy
Norm-referenced tests
Age equivalent
18. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Components of Reading Instruction
RTI
Mastery level
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
19. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Curriculum referenced tests
Derived Score
Raw score
MSL
20. Ability to understand and express spoken language
Chall's Stage 0
Cedilla
Sight Words
Oral Language
21. Feeling through fingertips
Tactile
Samuel T. Orton
Ability
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
22. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Base Word
Attention
Towre
Age equivalent
23. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.
Syllable
Open Syllable
ADHD
Suffix
24. 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.
Closed Syllable
Morphology
Morpheme
Syllable
25. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Syllable Instruction
Impulsivity
Mastery level
Auditory Learners
26. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Consonant Digraph
Combination
Towre
Morphology
27. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Chall's Stage 1
Texas Education Code 38.003
Vowel Digraph
V-e
28. 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.
RTI
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Closed Syllable
Academic Achievement Tests
29. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Simultaneous teaching
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Joe Torgesen
Consonant Digraph
30. 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
Attention
Great Vowel Shift
Phoneme
Modification
31. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Syllable Instruction
Standard Scores
Macron
Phonemic Awareness
32. 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.
RTI
Progress Monitoring
Receptive language
Social language
33. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Norm-Referenced Test
Expressive language
ADHD
Chall's Stage 0
34. 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.
Anna Gillingham
Percentile
Composite Score
Accent
35. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Old English
Six basic types of syllables
Phonics approach
36. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Consonant
Phonemic/ decodable words
Frank Smith
Multisensory
37. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Phonological Awareness
V-e
IDEA
Tilde
38. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Pre-English
Accuracy
Morphology
Derivative
39. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.
Mastery level
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Standard deviation
Macron
40. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Latin layer of language
Profile
Accommodation
Chall's Stage 2
41. Individual Educational Plan
Syntax
Phonics approach
GORT
IEP
42. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
VAKT
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Morphology
Composite Score
43. 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
Attention
Modification
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Linguistic Method
44. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Auditory Processing
Modern English
Six basic types of syllables
NICHD
45. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Comprehension
Letter naming Chart
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Derived Score
46. Wide Range Achievement Test
Visual Processing
Keith Stanovich
WRAT
Reliability
47. 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.
VC
Anglo Saxon
Great Vowel Shift
Diagnostic Teaching
48. State Board of Eduation
Cognitive Assessment
Syllable Instruction
Vowel
SBOE
49. 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
Combination
Towre
Components of Reading Instruction
GORT
50. r-controlled syllable
Towre
Accuracy
MSLE
Vr