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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. 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
Reading Comprehension Support
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Digraph
Dyslexia
2. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
3. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
IDEA
VV
Morpheme
Tactile
4. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Vr
Reliability
Phonemic Awareness
James Hinshelwood
5. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Phonology
Accuracy
Visual Processing
Percentile
6. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Samuel T. Orton
Social language
Standardized test
7. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
VAKT
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Funding
Ability
8. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Components of Reading Instruction
Achievement test
Letter naming Chart
Diagnostic tests
9. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun
Samuel T. Orton
ALTA
Cedilla
Morpheme
10. State Board of Eduation
Composite Score
Simultaneous teaching
VV
SBOE
11. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Anna Gillingham
Norm-Referenced Test
Modification
Simultaneous teaching
12. 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
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
MSLE
Rate
13. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Phoneme
Fluency
Visual Processing
Cedilla
14. 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
CTOPP
Criterion referenced tests
Combination
Syntax
15. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
16. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Fluency
Visual Processing
WRAT
VC
17. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
WIATII
Mathew Effect
Greek layer of language
Top-down Reading Approach
18. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Sound Symbol Association
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Battery
Texas Education Code 38.003
19. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
Consonant Digraph
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Chall's Stage 4
VAKT
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
Quadrigraph
Morphology
Joe Torgesen
Grapheme
21. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Three Layers of Language
Consonant Digraph
Criterion-Referenced Test
Reliability
22. 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.
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Auditory Processing
Raw score
23. 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.
Standard Scores
Auditory Processing
Percentile/ percentile rank
Academic Achievement Tests
24. 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.
WIATII
Affix
Consonant
VV
25. 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
Universal Screening
Linguistic Method
MSL
26. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Grapheme
Mastery level
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Stanine Scores
27. 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
MSL
Progress Monitoring
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Diphthong
28. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Diagnostic tests
CTOPP
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Tilde
29. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
RTI
Comprehension
Latin layer of language
Whole Language
30. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Consonant
Samuel T. Orton
Rate
Standard Scores
31. 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
Cognitive Assessment
Composite Score
Components of Reading Instruction
Keith Stanovich
32. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
MSL
WIATII
Standard Scores
Norm-referenced tests
33. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
34. Individual Educational Plan
Vr
Great Vowel Shift
IEP
ADHD
35. Multisensory Structured Language Education
Tilde
VV
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
MSLE
36. 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.
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Chall's Stage 5
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Cognitive Assessment
37. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Reading Comprehension Support
Auditory Learners
Chall's Stage 3
Syntax
38. 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.
Oral Language
Social language
Receptive language
WIATII
39. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Attention
Prefix
Morphology
Sight Words
40. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Auditory Learners
Comprehension
Chall's Stage 0
Prefix
41. Wide Range Achievement Test
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
WRAT
Direct Instruction
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
42. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
43. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
Funding
GORT
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
IMSLEC
44. 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.
Vr
Receptive language
Accent
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
45. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Tactile
Academic Achievement Tests
Pre-English
Frank Smith
46. 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
WRAT
Matthew Effect
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Base Word
47. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Latin layer of language
Sight Words
VV
Vowel Digraph
48. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Universal Screening
Consonant Digraph
GORT
Digraph
49. 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.
Keith Stanovich
Sound Symbol Association
Standard score
Percentile/ percentile rank
50. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Composite Score
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Visual Learners
Vowel Digraph