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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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






2. 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






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






4. 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






5. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






6. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






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






8. 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






9. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






10. 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.






11. 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.






12. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






13. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






14. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






15. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






16. 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






17. 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






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






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






20. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development


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






22. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






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






24. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with


25. 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.






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. 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.






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






29. 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






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






31. 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.






32. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)






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


34. 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.






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






36. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






37. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






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






39. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






40. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






41. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






42. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






43. 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.






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.






45. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






46. 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.






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






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






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






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