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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 30 minutes.
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1. Feeling through fingertips






2. 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.






3. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






4. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






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






6. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






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






8. 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






9. 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






10. 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






11. Closed syllable






12. 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.






13. 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.






14. 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






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






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






17. 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.






18. Academic Language Therapy Association






19. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






20. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






21. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






22. 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






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






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






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






26. 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






27. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






28. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






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






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






31. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






32. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






33. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






34. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






35. Whole body learning






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






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






38. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






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






40. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






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






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






43. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.


44. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






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






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


47. 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.






48. Multisensory Structured Language Education






49. State Board of Eduation






50. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development