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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Kinesthetic
Phonemic/ decodable words
Syllable
Pre-English
2. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Diphthong
VC
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Consonant
3. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Morphology
Prefix
Morpheme
Three Layers of Language
4. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes
Greek layer of language
Linguistic Method
Matthew Effect
Percentile/ percentile rank
5. Open syllable
Modern English
V >
Standardized test
Components of Reading Instruction
6. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
WRAT
Orthography
Trigraph
Syllable
7. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Profile
Chall's Stage 1
Syntax
IEP
8. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Phonics approach
Profile
Letter naming Chart
9. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Dyslexia
NICHD
Age equivalent
Auditory Learners
10. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
RTI
Diagnostic Teaching
Six basic types of syllables
11. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Accent
Expressive language
Orthography
Impulsivity
12. Closed syllable
Texas Education Code 28.06
VC
Syllable
Raw score
13. English as a second language
Simultaneous teaching
Linguistic Method
Criterion referenced tests
ESL
14. 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.
Derived Score
Composite Score
Consonant
Pre-English
15. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Combination
Visual Processing
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
16. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
GORT
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Attention
Multisensory
17. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Profile
Derivative
Texas Education Code 38.003
Anna Gillingham
18. 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
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Multi-Sensory Approach
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Curriculum referenced tests
19. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Reading Comprehension Support
Composite Score
Great Vowel Shift
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
20. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Raw score
Diphthong
Six basic types of syllables
Diagnostic tests
21. 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
Morpheme
Diagnostic Teaching
Standard score
Great Vowel Shift
22. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
Ability
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Greek layer of language
23. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Chall's Stage 2
Consonant
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Samuel T. Orton
24. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss
Norm-Referenced Test
Linguistic Method
Social language
Composite Score
25. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Suffix
Impulsivity
Simultaneous teaching
MSLE
26. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Percentile
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Morpheme
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
27. 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.
Analytic
Auditory Learners
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Letter naming Chart
28. 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.
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Quadrigraph
Social language
Base Word
29. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Whole Language
Syllable Instruction
Cognitive Assessment
Analytic
30. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Raw score
Cognitive Assessment
Prefix
Components of Reading Instruction
31. 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
Phonological Awareness
Phonics approach
Norm-Referenced Test
Trigraph
32. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Mastery level
Anna Gillingham
Oral Language
Age equivalent
33. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Vr
Impulsivity
Phoneme
Phonics
34. Feeling through fingertips
Prefix
Tactile
Norm-Referenced Test
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
35. 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
GORT
Visual Learners
Grade equivalents
Closed Syllable
36. Whole body learning
Kinesthetic
Letter naming Chart
Modern English
Profile
37. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
WIATII
VC
Letter naming Chart
Impulsivity
38. 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.
Phonemic Awareness
Matthew Effect
MSL
Syllable
39. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
NICHD
Battery
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Six basic types of syllables
40. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Base Word
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Old English
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
41. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Reliability
Expressive language
Open Syllable
VAKT
42. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
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43. 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
Accuracy
Funding
Chall's Stage 4
Letter naming Chart
44. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
Standard deviation
IMSLEC
Criterion-Referenced Test
Phonics approach
45. 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.
Top-down Reading Approach
Academic Achievement Tests
Accuracy
Funding
46. Academic Language Therapy Association
ALTA
Chall's Stage 4
Phonics
Accent
47. 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
Age equivalent
Digraph
Anna Gillingham
Morpheme
48. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Attention
Fluency
Letter naming Chart
Universal Screening
49. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
Keith Stanovich
Prefix
Receptive language
Mastery level
50. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Phonics approach
Quadrigraph
Chall's Stage 4
Progress Monitoring
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