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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
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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. 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.






3. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






4. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






5. 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






6. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






7. 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






8. Feeling through fingertips






9. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






10. 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.






11. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






12. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






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






14. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






15. 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






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






17. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






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






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






20. 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






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






22. 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.






23. 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 -






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






25. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






26. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






27. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






28. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






29. 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






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

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






32. 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






33. Academic Language Therapy Association






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






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






36. 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.






37. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






38. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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39. Multisensory Structured Language Education






40. 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






41. Ability to understand and express spoken language






42. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






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






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






45. 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.






46. 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






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






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






49. 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






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