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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






2. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






3. 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.






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. 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


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






7. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






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






9. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






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






11. 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






12. 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






13. 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.






14. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view


15. Multisensory Structured Language Education






16. 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.






17. 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.






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






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






20. 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






21. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






22. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






23. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






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






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






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






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






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






29. Individual Educational Plan






30. 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






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






32. 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






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


34. 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.






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


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






37. 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.






38. 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.






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






40. Wide Range Achievement Test






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






42. 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.






43. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






44. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






45. 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






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






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






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






49. 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.






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