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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






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






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






4. 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






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






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






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






8. 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






9. Closed syllable






10. Final stable syllable

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11. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






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

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






15. 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.






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






17. 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






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






19. 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






20. 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






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. 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.






23. 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






24. Individual Educational Plan






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

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






27. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






28. State Board of Eduation






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






30. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






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






32. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






33. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






34. 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






35. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






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






37. 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






38. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail






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






40. 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






41. Ability to understand and express spoken language






42. 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.






43. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






44. 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.






45. Multisensory Structured Language






46. 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






47. 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.






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






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






50. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia