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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






2. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






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

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4. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






5. 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






6. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






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






8. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






9. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






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






11. 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






12. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






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






14. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






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






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

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17. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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18. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






19. 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.






20. 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






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






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






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






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






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






27. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






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






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






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






31. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






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






33. Academic Language Therapy Association






34. 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.






35. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






36. 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.






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






38. 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.






39. Individual Educational Plan






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






41. 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






42. 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.






43. 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






44. 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






45. 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






46. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






47. Ability to understand and express spoken language






48. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






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






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