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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Composite Score
Percentile
Combination
IEP
2. 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)
Combination
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Phonological Awareness
The Norman Conquest
3. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Quadrigraph
Standard score
V-e
James Hinshelwood
4. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Great Vowel Shift
Consonant Digraph
Universal Screening
Mastery level
5. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
WIATII
Phonology
Chall's Stage 2
Samuel T. Orton
6. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Phonemic Awareness
Profile
Affix
7. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
NICHD
Sight Words
Reliability
Phonemic/ decodable words
8. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Orthography
Suffix
Auditory Learners
Reading Comprehension Support
9. 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
Tactile
Oral Language
Profile
10. 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
Criterion referenced tests
Phoneme
Joe Torgesen
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
11. Academic Language Therapy Association
Norm-referenced tests
ALTA
Standard score
Anglo Saxon
12. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Oral Language
Chall's Stage 0
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
13. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Great Vowel Shift
Middle English
Fluency
Closed Syllable
14. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Semantics
Whole Language
Battery
Quadrigraph
15. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
RTI
Joe Torgesen
Receptive language
Direct Instruction
16. 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.
Linguistic Method
Keith Stanovich
Macron
Tactile
17. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Orthography
Affix
Quadrigraph
Reliability
18. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Adolf Kusmaul
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Macron
19. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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20. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Academic Achievement Tests
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Whole Language
Battery
21. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Composite Score
RTI
Standard score
Affix
22. 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
Syntax
Closed Syllable
Criterion-Referenced Test
Multi-Sensory Approach
23. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Diagnostic Teaching
Three Layers of Language
Joe Torgesen
Mastery level
24. Wide Range Achievement Test
Towre
Fluency
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
WRAT
25. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Age equivalent
Whole Language
ADHD
26. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Phonics
Mathew Effect
ALTA
IMSLEC
27. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Norm-Referenced Test
Standardized test
Joe Torgesen
Morpheme
28. Closed syllable
Diagnostic tests
VC
Syntax
Comprehension
29. Ability to understand and express spoken language
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
IMSLEC
Consonant Digraph
Oral Language
30. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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31. 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
Linguistic Method
Anna Gillingham
Accent
Syllable Instruction
32. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Reliability
Diagnostic Teaching
Vowel
Social language
33. Feeling through fingertips
Diagnostic tests
IMSLEC
SBOE
Tactile
34. Multisensory Structured Language Education
IDEA
Attention
MSLE
Joe Torgesen
35. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Consonant
Orthography
Accuracy
Visual Processing
36. 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
Chall's Stage 4
Towre
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Chall's Stage 1
37. 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
Derivative
Matthew Effect
Vowel
GORT
38. English as a second language
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
ESL
Anglo Saxon
Ability
39. 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.
Diphthong
Six basic types of syllables
Standard Scores
[-'le
40. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
ALTA
Rate
Syllable Instruction
41. 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
Multi-Sensory Approach
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Visual Processing
Profile
42. 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
ESL
Tilde
Grade equivalents
Cognition
43. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Vowel Digraph
Vr
Visual Learners
Percentile
44. Individual Educational Plan
Closed Syllable
Middle English
Progress Monitoring
IEP
45. 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
Quadrigraph
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
[-'le
46. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
Simultaneous teaching
Achievement test
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Old English
47. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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48. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
GORT
V >
Modification
49. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Quadrigraph
Standard deviation
Morphology
Multisensory
50. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Direct Instruction
Components of Reading Instruction
Receptive language