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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 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






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






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






4. r-controlled syllable






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






6. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






7. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






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






9. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






10. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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11. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






12. Ability to understand and express spoken language






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






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

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15. 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.






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






18. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






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






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






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






22. 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.






23. 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






24. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






25. 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.






26. 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.






27. State Board of Eduation






28. 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






29. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






30. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






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






32. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






33. 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






34. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






35. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






36. 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.






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






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






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






40. 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






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






42. Feeling through fingertips






43. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






44. 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






45. 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.






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






47. 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.






48. Whole body learning






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






50. Individual Educational Plan