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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. 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 -






2. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






3. 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






4. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






5. Open syllable






6. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






7. 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.






8. 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






9. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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10. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






11. 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






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






13. 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.






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






15. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






16. 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






17. 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.






18. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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19. 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






20. 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






21. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






22. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






23. 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






24. Multisensory Structured Language Education






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






26. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






27. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






28. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






29. 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)






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






31. r-controlled syllable






32. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






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






34. 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






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






36. 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.






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






38. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






39. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






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






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






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






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. 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






45. 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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46. 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.






47. Individual Educational Plan






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






49. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






50. 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