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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Multisensory Structured Language Education






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






3. 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






4. 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.






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






6. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






7. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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8. 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.






9. 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.






10. 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






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






12. 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






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






14. Final stable syllable

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






16. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






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






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






19. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






20. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






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






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






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






24. 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






25. 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.






26. 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






27. 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






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






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






30. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






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






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






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






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






35. 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






36. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






37. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






38. 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.






39. Multisensory Structured Language






40. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






41. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






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






43. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






44. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat






45. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






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






47. 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.






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

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49. 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






50. Academic Language Therapy Association