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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






2. Final stable syllable

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






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






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






6. 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.






7. 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.






8. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






9. 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






10. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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11. 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






12. 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






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






14. 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.






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






16. 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.






17. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






18. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






19. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






20. 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






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






22. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






23. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






24. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






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






26. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






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






28. 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






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






30. 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.






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






32. Individual Educational Plan






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






34. 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






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






36. Academic Language Therapy Association






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

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38. 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






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






40. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.






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






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

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43. 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






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






45. 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.






46. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)






47. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






48. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






49. Feeling through fingertips






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







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