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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Chall's Stage 3
ADHD
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
2. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Chall's Stage 3
Top-down Reading Approach
Morphology
Visual Processing
3. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
Phonics approach
Syllable Instruction
MSLE
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
4. 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.
Syntax
Linguistic Method
Social language
Sight Words
5. 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
Diphthong
Impulsivity
Norm-Referenced Test
IMSLEC
6. 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.
Consonant Digraph
Modification
Suffix
Tilde
7. 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
Percentile/ percentile rank
Components of Reading Instruction
The Norman Conquest
IMSLEC
8. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
VV
V-e
Diagnostic Teaching
Vr
9. Individual Educational Plan
IEP
Diphthong
MSL
GORT
10. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Funding
Analytic
ALTA
Open Syllable
11. 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
Phonics approach
Grade equivalents
Stanine Scores
Norm-referenced tests
12. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Rate
Stanine Scores
Chall's Stage 5
Mathew Effect
13. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Adolf Kusmaul
Cognition
Synthetic Instruction
Syntax
14. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Tactile
Synthetic Instruction
Three Layers of Language
Samuel T. Orton
15. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.
Synthetic Instruction
Macron
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Chall's Stage 4
16. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Phonology
Syllable Instruction
ADHD
Analytic
17. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Criterion-Referenced Test
IEP
Tilde
Closed Syllable
18. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
Syllable
Multisensory
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Attention
19. 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
Oral Language
Composite Score
Anna Gillingham
Phoneme
20. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Linguistic Method
V-e
Percentile/ percentile rank
21. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Morphology
Six basic types of syllables
Impulsivity
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
22. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Digraph
SBOE
WIATII
Accommodation
23. 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.
Breve
Criterion-Referenced Test
Fluency
Closed Syllable
24. 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
Joe Torgesen
Funding
Auditory Processing
Progress Monitoring
25. 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
Pre-English
Synthetic Instruction
Dyslexia
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
26. 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.
Anglo Saxon
Phonology
Middle English
Diagnostic Teaching
27. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Phonics approach
Raw score
28. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Multi-Sensory Approach
Latin layer of language
Receptive language
Battery
29. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Ability
Quadrigraph
WIATII
Diagnostic tests
30. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat
Grapheme
Cognitive Assessment
Progress Monitoring
Impulsivity
31. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Multisensory
Orthography
Syllable
Joe Torgesen
32. 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
Sound Symbol Association
Syntax
Vowel
Suffix
33. Multisensory Structured Language Education
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
MSLE
Impulsivity
Trigraph
34. 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
Ability
Samuel T. Orton
Middle English
Phonemic Awareness
35. Multisensory Structured Language
Direct Instruction
Orthography
MSL
Syntax
36. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Top-down Reading Approach
Phonics
Ability
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
37. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
Sound Symbol Association
The Norman Conquest
Middle English
Diagnostic tests
38. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Consonant Digraph
Accommodation
Morpheme
Profile
39. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
Comprehension
NICHD
[-'le
Matthew Effect
40. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Funding
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Multisensory
SBOE
41. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
WIATII
Morpheme
Texas Education Code 28.06
Standard deviation
42. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
Receptive language
Old English
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Tactile
43. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
Mathew Effect
Dyslexia
IMSLEC
Joe Torgesen
44. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Mastery level
Syntax
Phonics
Affix
45. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies
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46. 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
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
IEP
Chall's Stage 3
Linguistic Method
47. r-controlled syllable
Vr
Pre-English
Syntax
Analytic
48. 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.
Analytic
Anna Gillingham
Towre
Anglo Saxon
49. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Progress Monitoring
Funding
Sound Symbol Association
Anglo Saxon
50. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
Open Syllable
Vowel Digraph
Direct Instruction
Whole Language