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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. 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.






2. 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






3. 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.






4. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






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






6. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






7. 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






8. 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






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






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






11. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






12. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






13. 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.






14. Closed syllable






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






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






17. 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






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

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19. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






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






21. 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






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






23. State Board of Eduation






24. 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.






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






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






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






28. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






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. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school






31. 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






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






33. 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.






34. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






35. 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






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






37. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






38. 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






39. 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






40. 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






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






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






43. 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.






44. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






45. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






46. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






47. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






48. Individual Educational Plan






49. 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






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