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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. Individual Educational Plan






2. 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.






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






4. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






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






6. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






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






8. 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






9. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






10. 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.






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






12. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






13. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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14. 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






15. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






16. 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






17. English as a second language






18. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






19. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






20. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






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






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






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






24. Closed syllable






25. 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






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






27. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






28. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






29. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






30. 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






31. Ability to understand and express spoken language






32. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






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






34. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






35. Final stable syllable

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






37. 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.






38. 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






39. 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.






40. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






41. 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.






42. 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.






43. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






44. 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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45. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






46. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






47. Feeling through fingertips






48. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






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






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