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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






2. 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.






3. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






4. Academic Language Therapy Association






5. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






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






7. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






8. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






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






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






11. 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.






12. Wide Range Achievement Test






13. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






14. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






15. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






16. 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.






17. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






18. 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






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






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

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21. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






22. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






23. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






24. Multisensory Structured Language






25. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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26. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






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






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






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

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30. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






31. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






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






33. 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






34. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






35. 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.






36. 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






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






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






39. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






40. 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






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






42. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






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






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)






45. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






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






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






48. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






49. 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.






50. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.