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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. 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.
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Base Word
MSLE
Tactile
2. 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
Old English
Multi-Sensory Approach
Percentile/ percentile rank
Simultaneous teaching
3. 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.
IMSLEC
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Adolf Kusmaul
Standard deviation
4. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Accuracy
Chall's Stage 3
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Morphology
5. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
Stanine Scores
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Battery
6. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
RTI
V >
Academic Achievement Tests
WIATII
7. 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
Standard score
Achievement test
Diagnostic tests
Oral Language
8. 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
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Prefix
Base Word
MSL
9. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
Rate
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Orthography
Direct Instruction
10. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Syntax
Sound Symbol Association
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
RTI
11. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Cognition
Linguistic Method
12. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Expressive language
Derived Score
Diagnostic Teaching
Quadrigraph
13. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.
Kinesthetic
Accommodation
Social language
Multisensory
14. Closed syllable
VC
James Hinshelwood
Suffix
Top-down Reading Approach
15. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Synthetic Instruction
Anglo Saxon
Simultaneous teaching
Joe Torgesen
16. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Standardized test
Dyslexia
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
17. 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
Multi-Sensory Approach
Components of Reading Instruction
Modification
Six basic types of syllables
18. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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19. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Phoneme
Grade equivalents
Accent
Texas Education Code 38.003
20. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Texas Education Code 38.003
Multisensory
Six basic types of syllables
Receptive language
21. 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
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
CTOPP
Visual Learners
V-e
22. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Fluency
Base Word
VAKT
Greek layer of language
23. State Board of Eduation
Open Syllable
Accuracy
SBOE
Auditory Processing
24. 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.
Sight Words
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
NICHD
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
25. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Components of Reading Instruction
Percentile
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Chall's Stage 3
26. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
IMSLEC
Multi-Sensory Approach
Texas Education Code 38.003
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
27. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Combination
Standard Scores
Components of Reading Instruction
Age equivalent
28. 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.
Grade equivalents
Breve
Affix
MSL
29. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Latin layer of language
Anna Gillingham
Derived Score
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
30. 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
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Phonological Awareness
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
31. 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
[-'le
Great Vowel Shift
Semantics
SBOE
32. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Attention
Auditory Processing
Chall's Stage 0
33. 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.
Multisensory
WIATII
Standard Scores
Raw score
34. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Universal Screening
Curriculum referenced tests
Morpheme
Macron
35. 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
Multi-Sensory Approach
Modern English
ESL
Tilde
36. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Direct Instruction
Top-down Reading Approach
Auditory Processing
Mathew Effect
37. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Percentile
Cedilla
Universal Screening
Phonemic Awareness
38. 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
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
SBOE
Digraph
Grade equivalents
39. 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
Prefix
Criterion-Referenced Test
Diagnostic Teaching
Digraph
40. 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
[-'le
Top-down Reading Approach
Rate
Funding
41. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Accuracy
Closed Syllable
Letter naming Chart
Percentile
42. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Composite Score
Cedilla
Macron
Diagnostic Teaching
43. 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.
Cognition
Vowel Digraph
Syllable Instruction
Matthew Effect
44. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Derived Score
Derivative
Consonant Digraph
Vowel
45. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
Reliability
VAKT
Joe Torgesen
Synthetic Instruction
46. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
VV
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Quadrigraph
Stanine Scores
47. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Grade equivalents
Simultaneous teaching
Frank Smith
Tilde
48. Individual Educational Plan
Percentile/ percentile rank
Cognition
IEP
Trigraph
49. 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
Cognitive Assessment
Diagnostic tests
Raw score
Top-down Reading Approach
50. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Linguistic Method
Raw score
Phonemic Awareness