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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
Battery
MSLE
Digraph
Reliability
2. 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.
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Accent
Keith Stanovich
IEP
3. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Accuracy
Reliability
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Sight Words
4. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words
Towre
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Visual Processing
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
5. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Stanine Scores
WRAT
Age equivalent
Pre-English
6. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
Comprehension
Chall's Stage 1
IMSLEC
Analytic
7. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the
Progress Monitoring
Dyslexia
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
VC
8. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Base Word
Adolf Kusmaul
Cognition
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
9. 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.
Derived Score
IEP
Social language
NICHD
10. 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.
Prefix
Visual Learners
Standard Scores
Trigraph
11. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Norm-referenced tests
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Morpheme
Letter naming Chart
12. 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.
Anglo Saxon
Phonics
Breve
Achievement test
13. 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.
Percentile/ percentile rank
Diphthong
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
RTI
14. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Pre-English
Multi-Sensory Approach
Phonemic/ decodable words
Mastery level
15. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
Derived Score
Cedilla
Receptive language
SBOE
16. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Phoneme
Semantics
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
17. 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
Trigraph
MSL
Components of Reading Instruction
Samuel T. Orton
18. Academic Language Therapy Association
Attention
ALTA
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Towre
19. 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.
Visual Processing
Anglo Saxon
ALTA
Consonant Digraph
20. 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
Top-down Reading Approach
Phonemic Awareness
Whole Language
The Norman Conquest
21. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Three Layers of Language
Impulsivity
Criterion-Referenced Test
CTOPP
22. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.
Cedilla
Breve
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Norm-referenced tests
23. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Frank Smith
Diagnostic Teaching
Matthew Effect
Sound Symbol Association
24. 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.
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Sound Symbol Association
Affix
IDEA
25. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.
Accuracy
Diagnostic tests
Sight Words
Breve
26. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Three Layers of Language
Syntax
Composite Score
Syllable Instruction
27. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Kinesthetic
Chall's Stage 1
Syllable
Texas Education Code 38.003
28. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
VAKT
Chall's Stage 3
IEP
Cognition
29. 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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30. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Middle English
Synthetic Instruction
Phonemic/ decodable words
Expressive language
31. Wide Range Achievement Test
Social language
IEP
Trigraph
WRAT
32. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
Joe Torgesen
Samuel T. Orton
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Diagnostic tests
33. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Comprehension
Trigraph
VC
34. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Funding
Texas Education Code 28.06
Mathew Effect
Mastery level
35. 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 -
Sound Symbol Association
Kinesthetic
Social language
Middle English
36. 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
Syntax
NICHD
Standardized test
Three Layers of Language
37. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Progress Monitoring
Latin layer of language
VV
Stanine Scores
38. 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
Accent
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Visual Learners
Standard score
39. Whole body learning
Kinesthetic
Percentile/ percentile rank
Percentile
Multi-Sensory Approach
40. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Percentile
Standard score
Visual Processing
Ability
41. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Morphology
Criterion referenced tests
NICHD
Sight Words
42. 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
Cognitive Assessment
Standard deviation
Letter naming Chart
James Hinshelwood
43. 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
Accuracy
Tilde
Grapheme
Curriculum referenced tests
44. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.
Chall's Stage 4
Breve
Composite Score
Suffix
45. 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.
Standardized test
RTI
Anna Gillingham
Norm-referenced tests
46. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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47. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Closed Syllable
Base Word
Diphthong
GORT
48. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Fluency
Old English
Greek layer of language
49. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Old English
Composite Score
Criterion referenced tests
CTOPP
50. State Board of Eduation
VAKT
SBOE
Phonemic/ decodable words
Raw score