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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






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






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






5. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






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






7. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






8. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






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

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






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






12. Individual Educational Plan






13. 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.






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

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15. 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






16. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






17. English as a second language






18. 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.






19. 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.






20. 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






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






22. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






23. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






24. 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






25. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






26. Closed syllable






27. 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






28. 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






29. 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






30. 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.






31. Feeling through fingertips






32. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






33. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






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






35. Multisensory Structured Language






36. 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






37. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






38. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






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.






40. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






41. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






42. 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






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






44. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






45. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






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






47. 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






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

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49. 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






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