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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. r-controlled syllable






2. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






3. 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.






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






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






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






7. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






8. 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.






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

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10. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






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






12. 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.






13. 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






14. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






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






16. Multisensory Structured Language Education






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






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






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






20. 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.






21. 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.






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






23. 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






24. Feeling through fingertips






25. 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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26. 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






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






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






29. 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.






30. 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)






31. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






32. 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






33. 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






34. 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






35. 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.






36. 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






37. 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






38. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






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






40. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






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






42. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






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






44. 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






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






46. 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.






47. 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.






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






49. 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






50. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.