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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






2. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






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






4. 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






5. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






6. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






7. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






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






9. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






10. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






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






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






13. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






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






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

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16. 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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17. Wide Range Achievement Test






18. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






19. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






20. 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 -






21. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






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






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






24. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






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. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






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






28. English as a second language






29. 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.






30. 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






31. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






32. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






33. 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.






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






35. 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.






36. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






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






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






39. 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






40. Feeling through fingertips






41. 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






42. State Board of Eduation






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 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






45. 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






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






47. 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






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






49. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






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