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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. 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
Great Vowel Shift
Sound Symbol Association
Phoneme
Grapheme
2. 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
Components of Reading Instruction
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Analytic
3. 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
Visual Learners
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Affix
Adolf Kusmaul
4. 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
CTOPP
Whole Language
Great Vowel Shift
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
5. 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
Three Layers of Language
Syntax
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Composite Score
6. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Kinesthetic
Base Word
Reading Comprehension Support
Joe Torgesen
7. 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
Progress Monitoring
IDEA
Towre
Criterion-Referenced Test
8. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Grade equivalents
Open Syllable
Frank Smith
Vowel Digraph
9. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Towre
V-e
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Rate
10. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Auditory Processing
Syllable Instruction
SBOE
Towre
11. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Latin layer of language
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Kinesthetic
12. 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.
Frank Smith
Norm-Referenced Test
VC
Breve
13. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Rate
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Joe Torgesen
Texas Education Code 38.003
14. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
15. 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
Morphology
WIATII
Progress Monitoring
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
16. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.
Curriculum referenced tests
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
VAKT
Suffix
17. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Battery
Whole Language
Texas Education Code 28.06
IMSLEC
18. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Profile
Great Vowel Shift
Diagnostic tests
Digraph
19. 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
Tactile
Syntax
Synthetic Instruction
20. Open syllable
Reading Comprehension Support
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
V >
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
21. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Impulsivity
Phonemic/ decodable words
Closed Syllable
Chall's Stage 3
22. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Suffix
Vowel Digraph
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
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
IDEA
Adolf Kusmaul
Grade equivalents
The Norman Conquest
24. Individual Educational Plan
Suffix
Modern English
IEP
IMSLEC
25. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Norm-referenced tests
Trigraph
Morphology
Macron
26. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
IDEA
Fluency
Macron
NICHD
27. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
28. 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.
V >
Affix
RTI
IMSLEC
29. 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
Tactile
[-'le
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Reading Comprehension Support
30. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Orthography
Standardized test
Norm-Referenced Test
Criterion-Referenced Test
31. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Adolf Kusmaul
Mathew Effect
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
32. Academic Language Therapy Association
Auditory Learners
Expressive language
Direct Instruction
ALTA
33. 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
IEP
Consonant Digraph
Rate
James Hinshelwood
34. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Morpheme
Receptive language
Impulsivity
Linguistic Method
35. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Vowel
Morpheme
Universal Screening
WIATII
36. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Chall's Stage 4
Percentile
Age equivalent
ADHD
37. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Standard Scores
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Linguistic Method
Three Layers of Language
38. 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
Latin layer of language
Norm-Referenced Test
Texas Education Code 28.06
Norm-referenced tests
39. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Criterion referenced tests
Ability
Quadrigraph
Stanine Scores
40. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Chall's Stage 1
Syllable Instruction
Texas Education Code 38.003
Prefix
41. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
IDEA
Curriculum referenced tests
Greek layer of language
Open Syllable
42. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Diphthong
Composite Score
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Digraph
43. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
CTOPP
Trigraph
Standard score
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
44. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
Receptive language
Phonemic Awareness
Reliability
Accent
45. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale
ADHD
MSLE
GORT
Morphology
46. 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
Age equivalent
Chall's Stage 1
Multi-Sensory Approach
WIATII
47. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Auditory Learners
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
VV
Vowel
48. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Syllable Instruction
Profile
VAKT
Direct Instruction
49. Multisensory Structured Language Education
Vowel Digraph
MSLE
Derivative
Attention
50. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Curriculum referenced tests
Orthography
Derivative
Chall's Stage 0