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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
Greek layer of language
Grade equivalents
IMSLEC
Standardized test
2. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Anna Gillingham
Norm-Referenced Test
Tilde
Multisensory
3. Academic Language Therapy Association
ALTA
IEP
Grade equivalents
Dyslexia
4. Feeling through fingertips
Synthetic Instruction
Closed Syllable
Tactile
Adolf Kusmaul
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.
Phonics approach
Criterion-Referenced Test
Modification
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
6. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Vowel
Phoneme
Mastery level
Standard score
7. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Synthetic Instruction
Semantics
Multi-Sensory Approach
Cognitive Assessment
8. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Achievement test
Cognition
Reading Comprehension Support
[-'le
9. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Percentile
Standard Scores
Adolf Kusmaul
MSLE
10. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Simultaneous teaching
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Matthew Effect
Base Word
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.
Academic Achievement Tests
Old English
Percentile
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
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.
Social language
VC
Phonemic/ decodable words
NICHD
13. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
MSL
Simultaneous teaching
Digraph
Chall's Stage 3
14. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Open Syllable
Visual Processing
Quadrigraph
Oral Language
15. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Chall's Stage 1
Raw score
ALTA
Vowel Digraph
16. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Phonological Awareness
Middle English
VV
Profile
17. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Receptive language
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Stanine Scores
ESL
18. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Phonemic/ decodable words
Phonological Awareness
[-'le
Analytic
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
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Auditory Processing
Visual Processing
Cognition
20. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Towre
Chall's Stage 4
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
21. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Reliability
Base Word
Great Vowel Shift
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
22. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Phonological Awareness
Comprehension
Greek layer of language
ALTA
23. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
[-'le
Funding
Phonemic Awareness
Greek layer of language
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
Morphology
Texas Education Code 38.003
Joe Torgesen
WRAT
26. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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27. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
Phonology
Universal Screening
Vr
Phonemic Awareness
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.
VC
Open Syllable
Affix
Cedilla
29. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Academic Achievement Tests
Accuracy
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Three Layers of Language
30. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
Samuel T. Orton
Rate
Raw score
Attention
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
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Auditory Learners
Chall's Stage 1
Six basic types of syllables
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
Consonant Digraph
Synthetic Instruction
Battery
Mathew Effect
33. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
IDEA
Raw score
RTI
Accent
34. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
Suffix
Morpheme
Visual Processing
Receptive language
35. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
V-e
Derivative
Derived Score
Grapheme
36. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Academic Achievement Tests
Modification
Accuracy
NICHD
37. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Grapheme
VAKT
ADHD
Old English
38. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Phonics approach
Accommodation
Sound Symbol Association
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
39. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Breve
Six basic types of syllables
Visual Learners
Morpheme
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.
Standard Scores
Standardized test
Impulsivity
Percentile/ percentile rank
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
Criterion referenced tests
Chall's Stage 2
Syntax
Phonics approach
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
Matthew Effect
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Norm-referenced tests
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
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.
Modern English
Age equivalent
Standard score
Synthetic Instruction
44. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Semantics
Diagnostic tests
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
WRAT
45. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Matthew Effect
Closed Syllable
Affix
Oral Language
46. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Diagnostic Teaching
Orthography
V-e
Chall's Stage 2
47. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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48. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Linguistic Method
WIATII
Diagnostic tests
Funding
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
Chall's Stage 0
James Hinshelwood
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
IDEA
50. State Board of Eduation
Funding
Modern English
SBOE
Standard Scores