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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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






2. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






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






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






5. 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






6. 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






7. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






8. Open syllable






9. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






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


11. 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.






12. 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






13. 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






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


15. 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






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






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


18. Feeling through fingertips






19. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






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






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






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






23. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






24. 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.






25. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






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






27. Multisensory Structured Language Education






28. 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


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






30. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






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






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






33. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






34. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






35. Final stable syllable


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






37. 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.






38. 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






39. 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.






40. 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 -






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






42. Individual Educational Plan






43. 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






44. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






45. 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






46. 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.






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






48. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss






49. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






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