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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. Final stable syllable

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2. 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






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






4. 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






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






6. 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






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






8. 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.






9. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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






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






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






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. 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.






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






16. Academic Language Therapy Association






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






18. English as a second language






19. Ability to understand and express spoken language






20. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






21. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






22. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






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. Multisensory Structured Language Education






25. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






26. 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






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

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28. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






29. 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






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






32. 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






33. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






34. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






35. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






36. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






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






38. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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39. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






40. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






41. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






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






43. r-controlled syllable






44. 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






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






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






47. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






48. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






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






50. 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.