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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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






2. State Board of Eduation






3. 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






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






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






6. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






7. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






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


9. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






10. 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






11. 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






12. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






13. 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.






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


15. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






16. 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.






17. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






18. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






19. 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






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






21. Academic Language Therapy Association






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.






23. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






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






25. Feeling through fingertips






26. r-controlled syllable






27. English as a second language






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






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






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






31. 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.






32. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






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






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






35. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






36. 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






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






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






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






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






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






42. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






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






44. 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.






45. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






46. Whole body learning






47. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






48. 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






49. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






50. 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.