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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. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






2. Multisensory Structured Language Education






3. 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






4. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






5. 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






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






7. 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.






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






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






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






11. 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.






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






13. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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14. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






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






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

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






18. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






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






20. 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.






21. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






22. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






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






24. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






25. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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26. 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

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






28. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






29. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






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






31. 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






32. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






33. 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.






34. 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






35. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






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

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37. 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.






38. 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






39. 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






40. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






41. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






42. 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.






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. 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.






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






46. 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






47. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






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






49. 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






50. r-controlled syllable