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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. 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.






2. 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.






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






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






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






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

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7. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






8. Ability to understand and express spoken language






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






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






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






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






13. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






14. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






15. 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.






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






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






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






19. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






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






21. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






22. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






23. State Board of Eduation






24. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






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






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






27. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






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






30. Feeling through fingertips






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

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32. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






33. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






34. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






35. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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






37. 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






38. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






39. 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.






40. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






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






42. 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.






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






44. 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






45. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






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






47. 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.






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






49. 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.






50. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test