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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Academic Language Therapy Association
Morphology
ALTA
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Chall's Stage 3
2. Whole body learning
Mastery level
Texas Education Code 28.06
Kinesthetic
SBOE
3. 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
Auditory Processing
Six basic types of syllables
Dyslexia
Mathew Effect
4. Feeling through fingertips
Phoneme
Tactile
Combination
Consonant Digraph
5. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail
Percentile/ percentile rank
Consonant Digraph
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Norm-Referenced Test
6. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
VV
Components of Reading Instruction
Three Layers of Language
Suffix
7. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Consonant
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Synthetic Instruction
Universal Screening
8. English as a second language
Anglo Saxon
Kinesthetic
Sight Words
ESL
9. 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
WIATII
Diphthong
Base Word
Samuel T. Orton
10. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Reading Comprehension Support
Vowel
Samuel T. Orton
ADHD
11. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.
Battery
Derived Score
Standard deviation
Curriculum referenced tests
12. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Modern English
Syllable Instruction
Vowel Digraph
Auditory Processing
13. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Comprehension
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Trigraph
ALTA
14. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Simultaneous teaching
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Chall's Stage 2
Diagnostic Teaching
15. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Greek layer of language
Syllable Instruction
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Anna Gillingham
16. Open syllable
Whole Language
V >
The Norman Conquest
Top-down Reading Approach
17. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Mastery level
Phoneme
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Grapheme
18. Closed syllable
Modification
GORT
Old English
VC
19. Final stable syllable
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20. 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.
Auditory Processing
Pre-English
James Hinshelwood
Norm-referenced tests
21. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
ESL
Base Word
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
22. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.
Macron
Reading Comprehension Support
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Phonology
23. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
Sight Words
Ability
Battery
Standardized test
24. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
The Norman Conquest
Quadrigraph
Cognition
Expressive language
25. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
MSLE
Phonological Awareness
Six basic types of syllables
Components of Reading Instruction
26. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.
Curriculum referenced tests
Diagnostic Teaching
WRAT
Sight Words
27. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Orthography
Fluency
Diphthong
Mathew Effect
28. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
GORT
Modern English
Greek layer of language
Open Syllable
29. 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.
Diagnostic Teaching
SBOE
Breve
Top-down Reading Approach
30. 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.
IDEA
Quadrigraph
Breve
Vowel
31. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Chall's Stage 4
Sight Words
Funding
Latin layer of language
32. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
James Hinshelwood
Closed Syllable
Chall's Stage 3
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
33. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
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34. 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
The Norman Conquest
Diagnostic Teaching
Ability
SBOE
35. 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
Diagnostic tests
Achievement test
Norm-Referenced Test
Derived Score
36. 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
James Hinshelwood
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Matthew Effect
Profile
37. 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.
Orthography
IDEA
Accent
Chall's Stage 3
38. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Accommodation
Three Layers of Language
Adolf Kusmaul
Raw score
39. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Prefix
Base Word
Orthography
Closed Syllable
40. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
Multi-Sensory Approach
Simultaneous teaching
Mathew Effect
Composite Score
41. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
V-e
Standard Scores
James Hinshelwood
42. 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
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Criterion-Referenced Test
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Cognition
43. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Top-down Reading Approach
Derivative
Reading Comprehension Support
Prefix
44. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Vr
Norm-referenced tests
Macron
Diphthong
45. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
NICHD
Keith Stanovich
Samuel T. Orton
Fluency
46. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Diagnostic tests
Phonology
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Standardized test
47. 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.
Anglo Saxon
Open Syllable
ADHD
Semantics
48. 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.
Trigraph
Academic Achievement Tests
Syllable
Battery
49. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Grapheme
Digraph
Great Vowel Shift
SBOE
50. 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
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
V >
James Hinshelwood
Pre-English