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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Whole body learning






2. 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.






3. 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






4. 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.






5. 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






6. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






7. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






8. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






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






10. 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






11. Individual Educational Plan






12. 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






13. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






14. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






15. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






16. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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17. 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.






18. 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.






19. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.






20. 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.






21. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






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






23. 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.






24. 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.






25. 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






26. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






27. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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28. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






29. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






30. 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






31. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






32. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






33. Multisensory Structured Language






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.






35. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






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






37. 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






38. 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






39. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






40. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






41. State Board of Eduation






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






43. 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






44. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






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






46. 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.






47. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






48. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






49. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






50. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek