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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






2. 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






3. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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4. Academic Language Therapy Association






5. 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






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






7. 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.






8. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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9. 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.






10. 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






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






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






13. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






14. Final stable syllable

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15. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






16. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






17. English as a second language






18. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






19. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






20. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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21. 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.






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






23. 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.






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






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






26. Open syllable






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






28. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






29. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






30. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






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






32. 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






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

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






35. 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






36. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






37. Whole body learning






38. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






39. Feeling through fingertips






40. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






41. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






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






43. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






44. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






45. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






46. 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)






47. 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.






48. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






49. 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






50. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.







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