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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






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






3. 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)






4. 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






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






6. 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.






7. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






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






9. 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






10. 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.






11. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






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






13. Closed syllable






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






15. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






16. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






17. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






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






19. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






20. 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






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






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






23. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






24. 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






25. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






26. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






27. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






28. 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






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






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






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


32. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






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






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


35. 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






36. 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






37. 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.






38. Multisensory Structured Language






39. Individual Educational Plan






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






41. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






42. 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.






43. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






44. 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






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






46. 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






47. Academic Language Therapy Association






48. 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






49. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






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