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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






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.






3. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






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






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






6. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






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






8. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






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.






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.






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






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.






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.






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






15. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






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






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






18. Academic Language Therapy Association






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.






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






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






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.






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






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.






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.






26. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






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






28. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






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.






31. Wide Range Achievement Test






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






33. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






34. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






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 -






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






37. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






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






39. Whole body learning






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






41. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






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






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






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.






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.






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.






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






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






50. State Board of Eduation