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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Visual Processing
IMSLEC
Phonology
Morphology
2. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Impulsivity
Old English
Semantics
Vowel
3. 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
Criterion referenced tests
Texas Education Code 38.003
Mathew Effect
Diphthong
4. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Receptive language
Norm-Referenced Test
Vr
Six basic types of syllables
5. 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
Breve
Age equivalent
Funding
Morpheme
6. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Composite Score
Curriculum referenced tests
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Standardized test
7. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
Profile
Impulsivity
Middle English
Auditory Learners
8. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
IDEA
V-e
Affix
V >
9. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Prefix
Cognition
Texas Education Code 28.06
Universal Screening
10. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Phonemic/ decodable words
Greek layer of language
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Grade equivalents
11. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Morphology
ADHD
Morpheme
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
12. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Derivative
Matthew Effect
Accuracy
Morpheme
13. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Pre-English
Components of Reading Instruction
Direct Instruction
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
14. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Expressive language
Old English
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Standardized test
15. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Anglo Saxon
Chall's Stage 0
Vowel
Greek layer of language
16. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Six basic types of syllables
Rate
Frank Smith
Top-down Reading Approach
17. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Progress Monitoring
Closed Syllable
Profile
Morphology
18. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Auditory Learners
Towre
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
19. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.
Visual Learners
Whole Language
Grapheme
Accent
20. 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.
MSL
Standard Scores
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Syllable Instruction
21. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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22. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
The Norman Conquest
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
23. 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
Frank Smith
Percentile/ percentile rank
Closed Syllable
Impulsivity
24. Multisensory Structured Language Education
MSLE
Ability
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Diagnostic tests
25. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Stanine Scores
Chall's Stage 4
ADHD
VV
26. 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
Mastery level
Old English
IMSLEC
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
27. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Texas Education Code 38.003
Open Syllable
Standardized test
Phonology
28. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Reliability
MSL
Orthography
Linguistic Method
29. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Adolf Kusmaul
Phoneme
V >
Phonemic Awareness
30. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Battery
Fluency
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
James Hinshelwood
31. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
IMSLEC
SBOE
Trigraph
Derivative
32. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Expressive language
Dyslexia
Visual Learners
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
33. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Closed Syllable
Percentile/ percentile rank
James Hinshelwood
Phonics approach
34. 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
Grade equivalents
GORT
VV
Norm-Referenced Test
35. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
Six basic types of syllables
GORT
Samuel T. Orton
Attention
36. English as a second language
Ability
NICHD
Digraph
ESL
37. 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
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
The Norman Conquest
Phonemic Awareness
Standardized test
38. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl
Tilde
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Whole Language
Letter naming Chart
39. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Affix
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
ADHD
Profile
40. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Reading Comprehension Support
Sound Symbol Association
Auditory Learners
Diagnostic Teaching
41. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
Progress Monitoring
Texas Education Code 38.003
Chall's Stage 5
Phonology
42. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Auditory Learners
VC
Profile
Criterion referenced tests
43. Whole body learning
Kinesthetic
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Six basic types of syllables
Battery
44. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
V >
Linguistic Method
Multisensory
Derivative
45. 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.
Sight Words
Cognition
Trigraph
SBOE
46. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Keith Stanovich
Combination
Rate
Impulsivity
47. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
IDEA
Curriculum referenced tests
WIATII
Visual Learners
48. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Accommodation
ADHD
Components of Reading Instruction
V >
49. 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.
Accommodation
Chall's Stage 4
Standard score
[-'le
50. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t
Samuel T. Orton
Orthography
IMSLEC
Anna Gillingham