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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






2. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






3. 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.






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






5. 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






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






7. 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






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






9. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






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

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11. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






12. 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.






13. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






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






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






16. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






17. Multisensory Structured Language Education






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






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






20. State Board of Eduation






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






22. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






23. 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






24. 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.






25. 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






26. 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






27. 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






28. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






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

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30. 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






31. 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






32. 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.






33. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






34. 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






35. English as a second language






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






37. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






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






39. 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






40. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






41. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






42. 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.






43. 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






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






45. 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.






46. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail






47. 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






48. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






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






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