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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






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






3. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






4. 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.






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






6. 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






7. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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8. 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






9. English as a second language






10. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






11. 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.






12. Feeling through fingertips






13. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






14. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






15. 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






16. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






17. Closed syllable






18. 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.






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






20. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






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






22. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






23. 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






24. Academic Language Therapy Association






25. 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






26. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






27. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






28. 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






29. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






30. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






31. 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






32. Multisensory Structured Language Education






33. 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.






34. 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






35. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






36. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






37. 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






38. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






39. 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.






40. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






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






42. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






43. 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






44. 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.






45. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






46. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






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






48. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






49. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






50. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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