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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Feeling through fingertips






2. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






3. 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






4. 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.






5. 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






6. 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






7. State Board of Eduation






8. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






9. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






10. Academic Language Therapy Association






11. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






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






13. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






14. 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






15. 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.






16. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






17. 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.






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






19. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






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






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






22. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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23. 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.






24. 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






25. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






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






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






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

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






30. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






31. 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






32. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






33. Open syllable






34. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






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






36. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






37. 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






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






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






40. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






41. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






42. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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






44. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






45. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






46. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






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






48. Multisensory Structured Language Education






49. English as a second language






50. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words