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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Multisensory Structured Language






2. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






3. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






4. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






5. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






6. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






7. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






8. 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






9. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






10. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






11. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






12. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






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


14. 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


15. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






16. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






17. 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






18. 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






19. Whole body learning






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


21. State Board of Eduation






22. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






23. 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.






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






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






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






28. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






29. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






30. 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






31. 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






32. r-controlled syllable






33. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






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






35. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






36. 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






37. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






38. 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






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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






45. 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.






46. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






47. 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.






48. 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.






49. 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.






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