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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. 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
Three Layers of Language
Macron
ADHD
Cognitive Assessment
2. 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.
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Vowel
Comprehension
Standard Scores
3. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)
Combination
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
CTOPP
Syllable
4. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
IMSLEC
Vowel
Age equivalent
Kinesthetic
5. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
Pre-English
Digraph
Three Layers of Language
Battery
6. 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
Anglo Saxon
Rate
Morpheme
7. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Chall's Stage 4
Mathew Effect
Universal Screening
Syllable Instruction
8. 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
Middle English
Three Layers of Language
Diphthong
Attention
9. Open syllable
V >
Towre
VC
ESL
10. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Auditory Learners
Three Layers of Language
Visual Learners
Pre-English
11. 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
ADHD
Social language
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Syntax
12. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
Simultaneous teaching
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Norm-Referenced Test
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
13. 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
ESL
GORT
Rate
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
14. 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
Suffix
Impulsivity
Cognitive Assessment
Pre-English
15. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Mathew Effect
Phonics
Rate
Progress Monitoring
16. 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.
Suffix
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Old English
Academic Achievement Tests
17. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together
Letter naming Chart
Percentile
Academic Achievement Tests
Phonics approach
18. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.
Social language
Kinesthetic
Consonant Digraph
Accent
19. 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
Auditory Learners
Grade equivalents
Grapheme
Raw score
20. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Adolf Kusmaul
Mathew Effect
Multisensory
Norm-Referenced Test
21. 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
MSL
Auditory Learners
Reliability
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
22. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Accent
Latin layer of language
Chall's Stage 2
Cognition
23. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Syntax
Phonics approach
Receptive language
Mathew Effect
24. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
WRAT
Phonemic/ decodable words
Letter naming Chart
Funding
25. Final stable syllable
26. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Affix
Standard score
The Norman Conquest
Sight Words
27. Multisensory Structured Language
MSL
Comprehension
Towre
Closed Syllable
28. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Diagnostic Teaching
Accommodation
29. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Diagnostic tests
Modern English
Funding
WIATII
30. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Battery
Visual Processing
NICHD
Trigraph
31. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Profile
Kinesthetic
Criterion referenced tests
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
32. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Reliability
Comprehension
Trigraph
Synthetic Instruction
33. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
WIATII
Stanine Scores
Reliability
Frank Smith
34. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Receptive language
Consonant Digraph
Phonics approach
Letter naming Chart
35. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Open Syllable
Expressive language
Phonemic Awareness
36. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Joe Torgesen
Latin layer of language
Six basic types of syllables
Three Layers of Language
37. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Vowel
Suffix
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
38. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
VC
Comprehension
Analytic
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
39. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
Middle English
VV
Anglo Saxon
IEP
40. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
The Norman Conquest
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
James Hinshelwood
41. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Latin layer of language
Accuracy
Components of Reading Instruction
ALTA
42. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
IDEA
Dyslexia
Synthetic Instruction
Criterion-Referenced Test
43. 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.
Standard deviation
Curriculum referenced tests
Sight Words
Chall's Stage 1
44. 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.
Accommodation
Accent
Vowel Digraph
Syllable Instruction
45. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Modification
Texas Education Code 28.06
Percentile/ percentile rank
RTI
46. 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
Multi-Sensory Approach
Open Syllable
Dyslexia
Auditory Learners
47. 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.
Social language
Modification
Texas Education Code 38.003
Letter naming Chart
48. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
49. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Derived Score
Morpheme
Synthetic Instruction
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
50. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
Stanine Scores
Direct Instruction
Modern English
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan