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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. 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.






2. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






3. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






4. 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.






5. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






6. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






7. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






8. Multisensory Structured Language Education






9. 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






10. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






11. 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.






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






13. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






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






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






16. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






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






18. 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.






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






20. 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






21. 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






22. 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.






23. 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






24. 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.






25. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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






27. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






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






29. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






30. 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






31. 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.






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






33. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






34. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






35. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






36. 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






37. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






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






39. 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.






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






41. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






42. 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.






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






44. 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






45. 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.






46. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






47. 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






48. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






49. 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.






50. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail







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