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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
Criterion-Referenced Test
Comprehension
Linguistic Method
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
2. 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
Sight Words
Diagnostic Teaching
Accent
3. 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
Adolf Kusmaul
RTI
Achievement test
Closed Syllable
4. 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
Orthography
Vowel Digraph
Middle English
5. 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.
Profile
Fluency
Accommodation
Syllable
6. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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7. English as a second language
Accuracy
ESL
Morphology
Accent
8. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Phonics approach
CTOPP
WIATII
Anglo Saxon
9. 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
Funding
Grapheme
Kinesthetic
Syllable
10. 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
Frank Smith
Analytic
Vowel Digraph
The Norman Conquest
11. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Standard Scores
Pre-English
Visual Processing
Digraph
12. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Phoneme
SBOE
Expressive language
Multi-Sensory Approach
13. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Components of Reading Instruction
Phoneme
Chall's Stage 1
Receptive language
14. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Phonological Awareness
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Tilde
15. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Syllable Instruction
Progress Monitoring
Receptive language
16. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Keith Stanovich
Anna Gillingham
Phonics
Consonant Digraph
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
Trigraph
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Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Pre-English
18. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Fluency
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Combination
Percentile
19. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
Diagnostic Teaching
Chall's Stage 1
Multi-Sensory Approach
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
20. 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 5
Syllable Instruction
Profile
Grade equivalents
21. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Multisensory
Reliability
Funding
Standard score
22. 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
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Criterion referenced tests
Diagnostic tests
Quadrigraph
23. Whole body learning
Auditory Processing
IDEA
Chall's Stage 1
Kinesthetic
24. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
Base Word
Phonology
Combination
Synthetic Instruction
25. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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26. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Phonemic Awareness
Modern English
Sound Symbol Association
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
27. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Raw score
Composite Score
Oral Language
Closed Syllable
28. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Auditory Processing
Phonology
Letter naming Chart
VAKT
29. Ability to understand and express spoken language
Standard deviation
Kinesthetic
Oral Language
Tilde
30. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Prefix
Pre-English
Impulsivity
31. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo
Matthew Effect
Accent
Impulsivity
Top-down Reading Approach
32. 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
Phonological Awareness
Joe Torgesen
Kinesthetic
Phonology
33. Feeling through fingertips
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Visual Learners
Tactile
[-'le
34. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Universal Screening
Chall's Stage 2
James Hinshelwood
Letter naming Chart
35. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Expressive language
Standard deviation
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
RTI
36. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Visual Processing
Syntax
Mastery level
VC
37. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Letter naming Chart
Morphology
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
38. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
IMSLEC
Simultaneous teaching
Orthography
Norm-referenced tests
39. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Rate
Consonant
Visual Learners
Morpheme
40. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Funding
Raw score
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Reading Comprehension Support
41. 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
Middle English
Anna Gillingham
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
IEP
42. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Stanine Scores
Modern English
Visual Learners
Latin layer of language
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
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Vowel
Progress Monitoring
Impulsivity
44. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
NICHD
Multi-Sensory Approach
Chall's Stage 0
Affix
45. 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.
VV
NICHD
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
46. 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
Multi-Sensory Approach
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
47. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Letter naming Chart
Open Syllable
Orthography
48. 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
Ability
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
IDEA
49. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Anglo Saxon
Quadrigraph
Derived Score
Phonological Awareness
50. 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
Cedilla
Orthography
Trigraph
Auditory Learners