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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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






2. 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






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






4. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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






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






7. 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






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






9. 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






10. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






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






12. 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






13. 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.






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

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






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






17. Multisensory Structured Language Education






18. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






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






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






21. Feeling through fingertips






22. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






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






24. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






25. 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






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






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






28. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






29. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






30. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






31. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






32. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






33. 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






34. 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






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






36. 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.






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






38. 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






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






40. 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.






41. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






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






43. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






44. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






45. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






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






47. 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






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






49. 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.






50. 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.