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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. 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
Norm-Referenced Test
Percentile
Oral Language
Whole Language
2. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Affix
Consonant Digraph
Accuracy
3. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Prefix
NICHD
Cognitive Assessment
Open Syllable
4. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Standard deviation
Battery
Grade equivalents
Six basic types of syllables
5. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Raw score
Grade equivalents
Impulsivity
Receptive language
6. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Receptive language
Reliability
Profile
Top-down Reading Approach
7. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
WIATII
Top-down Reading Approach
Syllable Instruction
Phonology
8. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Synthetic Instruction
Macron
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Mathew Effect
9. 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
Reading Comprehension Support
Cognition
Orthography
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
10. 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.
Social language
Analytic
Profile
Stanine Scores
11. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Mathew Effect
ALTA
Combination
12. 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
Rate
Receptive language
Keith Stanovich
Linguistic Method
13. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Keith Stanovich
Open Syllable
Matthew Effect
Academic Achievement Tests
14. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Direct Instruction
Top-down Reading Approach
Linguistic Method
Stanine Scores
15. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Derived Score
Reliability
Phonics
Morpheme
16. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Frank Smith
Expressive language
James Hinshelwood
Base Word
17. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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18. 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
Quadrigraph
Academic Achievement Tests
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Funding
19. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
SBOE
Derivative
Multi-Sensory Approach
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
20. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
RTI
Sight Words
Six basic types of syllables
Visual Learners
21. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Consonant Digraph
Fluency
Standard deviation
Syllable Instruction
22. 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.
Syllable
Adolf Kusmaul
Phonemic Awareness
Affix
23. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
Tactile
GORT
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Pre-English
24. 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
MSL
Sight Words
Base Word
Grade equivalents
25. 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
Chall's Stage 0
Achievement test
Open Syllable
Six basic types of syllables
26. Multisensory Structured Language
MSL
Morpheme
Multisensory
Old English
27. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Percentile
Morphology
Multisensory
Phonology
28. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Morphology
Raw score
Chall's Stage 4
Multisensory
29. 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 Administrative Code 74.28
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Battery
30. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)
Achievement test
Macron
Combination
Criterion referenced tests
31. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
Rate
Texas Education Code 38.003
Simultaneous teaching
Anglo Saxon
32. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
Rate
Reliability
Attention
Profile
33. 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
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Norm-referenced tests
Pre-English
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
34. 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
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Samuel T. Orton
Macron
Joe Torgesen
35. 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.
Expressive language
Phonics
Sight Words
Top-down Reading Approach
36. English as a second language
ESL
WIATII
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Cedilla
37. 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
Samuel T. Orton
Curriculum referenced tests
Grapheme
Simultaneous teaching
38. 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
Auditory Learners
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Accent
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
39. 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.
Morphology
Keith Stanovich
RTI
Modern English
40. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Academic Achievement Tests
Auditory Learners
ESL
Age equivalent
41. 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.
Tactile
Dyslexia
VC
Breve
42. 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
The Norman Conquest
Phonology
Phonics approach
V >
43. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.
Synthetic Instruction
Norm-referenced tests
Curriculum referenced tests
Phoneme
44. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Cognition
Criterion-Referenced Test
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
GORT
45. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Derived Score
Open Syllable
WIATII
James Hinshelwood
46. 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.
Standard deviation
Analytic
Diagnostic tests
Accommodation
47. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Joe Torgesen
Achievement test
VV
48. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.
Standard Scores
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Pre-English
Phoneme
49. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
Ability
V-e
Three Layers of Language
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
50. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Latin layer of language
Chall's Stage 4
VV
Multi-Sensory Approach