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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






2. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






3. 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






4. 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.






5. Individual Educational Plan






6. 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






7. Closed syllable






8. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






9. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






10. 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






11. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






12. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






13. 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.






14. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






15. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






16. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






17. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






18. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






19. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






20. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






21. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






22. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






23. Multisensory Structured Language Education






24. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






25. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






26. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






27. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






28. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






29. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






30. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






31. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






32. Academic Language Therapy Association






33. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






34. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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35. 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.






36. Open syllable






37. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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38. English as a second language






39. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






40. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






41. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






42. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






43. 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






44. 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






45. 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.






46. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






47. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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48. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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49. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






50. r-controlled syllable