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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. 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.






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






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






4. 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.






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

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6. 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.






7. 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






8. 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






9. 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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10. Closed syllable






11. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.






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






13. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






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






15. 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.






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






17. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






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






19. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






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






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






22. 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.






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






24. 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






25. 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.






26. 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.






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






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






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

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30. 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






31. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






32. 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






33. 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






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






35. 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






36. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






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






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

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






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






41. 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






42. 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.






43. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






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






45. Wide Range Achievement Test






46. 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






47. 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.






48. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






49. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






50. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test