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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Phonics
Middle English
Impulsivity
Diagnostic Teaching
2. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Derived Score
Standard Scores
IEP
IDEA
3. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Combination
ADHD
VV
Modern English
4. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Sound Symbol Association
V-e
Adolf Kusmaul
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
5. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
Greek layer of language
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Multisensory
Three Layers of Language
6. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
RTI
Three Layers of Language
Raw score
Accuracy
7. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Syllable Instruction
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Simultaneous teaching
8. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Universal Screening
Chall's Stage 5
Open Syllable
Consonant Digraph
9. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Social language
Chall's Stage 1
Percentile/ percentile rank
Digraph
10. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Chall's Stage 2
Texas Education Code 38.003
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
11. 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
Anna Gillingham
Vowel
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Semantics
12. 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
Norm-Referenced Test
Chall's Stage 2
VV
Multi-Sensory Approach
13. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
ALTA
VV
Phonemic Awareness
Phonology
14. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Phonemic/ decodable words
Anna Gillingham
Semantics
Visual Learners
15. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Simultaneous teaching
Expressive language
VAKT
Vowel Digraph
16. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
17. 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.
Multi-Sensory Approach
Breve
Phonemic Awareness
Stanine Scores
18. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Funding
Sound Symbol Association
ALTA
Vowel Digraph
19. 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.
Cognition
Stanine Scores
Oral Language
NICHD
20. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
Universal Screening
Chall's Stage 2
CTOPP
Derivative
21. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Grapheme
Diagnostic tests
Expressive language
Keith Stanovich
22. 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
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Cognitive Assessment
Great Vowel Shift
Texas Education Code 28.06
23. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Great Vowel Shift
Stanine Scores
Percentile
Phonological Awareness
24. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
MSL
Adolf Kusmaul
Standardized test
Age equivalent
25. 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
IEP
Phonology
Phoneme
26. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Percentile
Semantics
VC
Reliability
27. Open syllable
Three Layers of Language
V >
The Norman Conquest
Joe Torgesen
28. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Phoneme
MSL
Syntax
VAKT
29. Wide Range Achievement Test
Reading Comprehension Support
Vr
WRAT
Whole Language
30. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Affix
Visual Processing
Raw score
Great Vowel Shift
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.
Keith Stanovich
Profile
Rate
VAKT
32. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
Anna Gillingham
Raw score
Profile
Battery
33. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Social language
Old English
34. 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.
Direct Instruction
Sight Words
GORT
Whole Language
35. 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.
Social language
Cedilla
Digraph
The Norman Conquest
36. 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
Letter naming Chart
[-'le
Achievement test
Chall's Stage 3
37. 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
Chall's Stage 3
Anna Gillingham
Standard score
38. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media
Visual Learners
Combination
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
IMSLEC
39. 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
Auditory Learners
Pre-English
Mathew Effect
Six basic types of syllables
40. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Prefix
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Grade equivalents
41. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Profile
Morpheme
Phonics approach
Funding
42. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.
NICHD
Vr
Top-down Reading Approach
Phoneme
43. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
Keith Stanovich
Achievement test
VV
Digraph
44. 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)
Ability
Pre-English
Combination
Linguistic Method
45. 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.
NICHD
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Syllable
Chall's Stage 5
46. r-controlled syllable
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Adolf Kusmaul
Six basic types of syllables
Vr
47. 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
Chall's Stage 3
Multisensory
Mastery level
48. Feeling through fingertips
Cognition
Reading Comprehension Support
Diphthong
Tactile
49. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Pre-English
Mathew Effect
Percentile
Accommodation
50. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer
Whole Language
The Norman Conquest
Components of Reading Instruction
Criterion-Referenced Test