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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. 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






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






4. 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






5. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






6. Whole body learning






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






8. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






9. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






10. State Board of Eduation






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






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






13. 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






14. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






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






16. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






17. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






18. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






19. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






20. Final stable syllable

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






22. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






23. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






24. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






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






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






27. 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.






28. English as a second language






29. 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.






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






31. 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.






32. Individual Educational Plan






33. 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.






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

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






36. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






37. Ability to understand and express spoken language






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






39. 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






40. 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.






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






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






43. 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






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






45. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






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






47. 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.






48. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






49. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






50. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.