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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






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






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






5. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






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






7. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






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






9. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






10. 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.






11. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






12. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






13. 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.






14. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






15. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






16. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






17. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






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






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






20. Multisensory Structured Language Education






21. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






22. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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






24. 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






25. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






26. State Board of Eduation






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

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






29. 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






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






31. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






32. 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






33. 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






34. Feeling through fingertips






35. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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






37. 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.






38. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






39. Final stable syllable

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40. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






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






42. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






43. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






44. English as a second language






45. 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






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

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






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






49. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






50. 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