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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Whole body learning
SBOE
Kinesthetic
Phonology
Accuracy
2. 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
VV
Breve
Towre
3. 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
Syntax
Trigraph
Linguistic Method
Visual Learners
4. 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.
Suffix
Age equivalent
Tilde
Six basic types of syllables
5. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress
Standard score
Grade equivalents
Simultaneous teaching
Comprehension
6. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
Kinesthetic
Texas Education Code 38.003
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
VV
7. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Standard deviation
Orthography
Funding
8. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Criterion-Referenced Test
Components of Reading Instruction
9. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
ESL
Analytic
Standardized test
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
10. 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
Matthew Effect
MSL
Multi-Sensory Approach
Universal Screening
11. Individual Educational Plan
IEP
Adolf Kusmaul
Quadrigraph
Reading Comprehension Support
12. 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
Consonant Digraph
Samuel T. Orton
Comprehension
Modification
13. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Middle English
Sight Words
Percentile/ percentile rank
14. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
Oral Language
CTOPP
Whole Language
IMSLEC
15. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
ADHD
Old English
Multisensory
Stanine Scores
16. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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17. 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.
Universal Screening
Towre
Standard Scores
Funding
18. 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.
WIATII
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Consonant
19. 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.
Diagnostic Teaching
Matthew Effect
V >
Syllable
20. 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.
Raw score
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Analytic
Sight Words
21. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Latin layer of language
Morphology
Base Word
MSLE
22. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Linguistic Method
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Diagnostic Teaching
Modification
23. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.
ADHD
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
The Norman Conquest
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
24. 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.
Texas Education Code 38.003
Standard deviation
Impulsivity
Whole Language
25. 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
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Morpheme
Cognitive Assessment
Whole Language
26. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Six basic types of syllables
V-e
Phonemic Awareness
Phonological Awareness
27. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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28. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Morpheme
Anna Gillingham
Age equivalent
VC
29. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Digraph
Auditory Processing
Reliability
Universal Screening
30. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words
Social language
Norm-Referenced Test
Towre
Affix
31. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the
Dyslexia
GORT
Chall's Stage 5
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
32. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
Norm-referenced tests
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
VAKT
33. Multisensory Structured Language
SBOE
MSL
Universal Screening
ADHD
34. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.
Accommodation
Accent
VAKT
Social language
35. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Funding
Derived Score
Top-down Reading Approach
Suffix
36. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
Cognition
Linguistic Method
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
37. 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
Diagnostic tests
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Linguistic Method
Great Vowel Shift
38. 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
Affix
Morphology
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Keith Stanovich
39. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Auditory Learners
Phoneme
Frank Smith
Standard Scores
40. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Ability
Components of Reading Instruction
Mastery level
Phonemic Awareness
41. State Board of Eduation
SBOE
Grade equivalents
Kinesthetic
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
42. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Tilde
Morpheme
Middle English
43. 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
Composite Score
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Percentile
James Hinshelwood
44. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Cognitive Assessment
Vowel
Auditory Processing
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
45. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Diagnostic Teaching
Closed Syllable
Towre
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
46. 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.
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Anglo Saxon
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
47. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Digraph
Profile
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Reliability
48. 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
VAKT
VV
Adolf Kusmaul
Auditory Learners
49. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Mastery level
Raw score
Analytic
Synthetic Instruction
50. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
The Norman Conquest
Three Layers of Language
Phonology
Texas Administrative Code 74.28