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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






2. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






3. Academic Language Therapy Association






4. Feeling through fingertips






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






6. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






7. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






8. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






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






10. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






11. 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.






12. 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.






13. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






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






15. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






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






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






18. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






19. 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






20. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






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






22. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






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






24. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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25. 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






26. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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






28. 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.






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






30. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






31. 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






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






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






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






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






36. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






37. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






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






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






40. 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.






41. 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






42. 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






43. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






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






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






46. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






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

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48. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






49. 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






50. State Board of Eduation