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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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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.
Composite Score
Analytic
Closed Syllable
Consonant
2. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Visual Processing
Morpheme
Impulsivity
Semantics
3. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Chall's Stage 0
Criterion referenced tests
Profile
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
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.
Old English
Phonics approach
Phonology
Phonemic Awareness
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.
Chall's Stage 5
Affix
Linguistic Method
Sight Words
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
Percentile/ percentile rank
Raw score
Three Layers of Language
Vowel
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
Cognitive Assessment
IEP
Oral Language
Six basic types of syllables
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
Greek layer of language
VC
Syntax
Tactile
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.
Middle English
Vowel Digraph
IDEA
Standard deviation
12. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Whole Language
Social language
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
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.
Diagnostic Teaching
Accuracy
Norm-referenced tests
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
14. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Norm-referenced tests
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Simultaneous teaching
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
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.
Digraph
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Expressive language
CTOPP
16. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Phoneme
Top-down Reading Approach
Old English
Chall's Stage 5
17. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Phonics
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Digraph
Phonological Awareness
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
Impulsivity
Texas Education Code 38.003
Reading Comprehension Support
Standardized test
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
Direct Instruction
Grade equivalents
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Tilde
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.
NICHD
Synthetic Instruction
Orthography
Modification
21. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Impulsivity
Composite Score
Prefix
Pre-English
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.
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Chall's Stage 1
Texas Education Code 28.06
Anglo Saxon
23. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Modification
Combination
Trigraph
Digraph
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
Diphthong
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Prefix
Age equivalent
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.
Consonant Digraph
Keith Stanovich
Mastery level
Universal Screening
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.
Synthetic Instruction
Diagnostic tests
Cognition
Expressive language
27. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Texas Education Code 38.003
Whole Language
Achievement test
28. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Criterion referenced tests
Sight Words
Expressive language
Accent
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
Receptive language
WIATII
Great Vowel Shift
Prefix
31. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Mastery level
Macron
Visual Processing
Pre-English
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
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Vowel Digraph
Accent
MSLE
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
Comprehension
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Suffix
James Hinshelwood
34. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Reliability
Top-down Reading Approach
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Closed Syllable
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
Accuracy
GORT
VV
Expressive language
36. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Consonant Digraph
NICHD
Latin layer of language
Standard deviation
37. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Receptive language
Chall's Stage 3
Pre-English
Auditory Processing
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
[-'le
CTOPP
Visual Processing
Affix
40. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Derived Score
MSL
Auditory Processing
WRAT
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
Simultaneous teaching
Samuel T. Orton
VAKT
ESL
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.
Whole Language
Grapheme
Accommodation
Standard Scores
43. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Battery
Frank Smith
Reliability
Phonemic/ decodable words
44. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Letter naming Chart
Curriculum referenced tests
VC
Sight Words
45. Wide Range Achievement Test
WRAT
Synthetic Instruction
Pre-English
Sound Symbol Association
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
Kinesthetic
Multi-Sensory Approach
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Consonant Digraph
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.
Whole Language
Samuel T. Orton
Reading Comprehension Support
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
48. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
IMSLEC
Suffix
Digraph
Derivative
49. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
The Norman Conquest
Breve
Derivative
MSL
50. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Texas Education Code 28.06
Top-down Reading Approach
WIATII
Tactile