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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school
Multisensory
Impulsivity
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
2. Ability to understand and express spoken language
Phonology
Oral Language
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Affix
3. 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
Kinesthetic
Diagnostic Teaching
Grapheme
Attention
4. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Letter naming Chart
Trigraph
Impulsivity
5. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
ALTA
Criterion-Referenced Test
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
IDEA
6. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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7. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Vowel
Reading Comprehension Support
Trigraph
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
8. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Orthography
Syllable Instruction
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Phonics
9. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Receptive language
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Morpheme
10. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Middle English
Grade equivalents
Phonics approach
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
11. 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
Accent
Greek layer of language
Towre
Quadrigraph
12. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Greek layer of language
Rate
Standard deviation
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
13. 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
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Quadrigraph
Cognition
Cognitive Assessment
14. 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
Great Vowel Shift
Phonics
WIATII
SBOE
15. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Profile
Norm-referenced tests
Comprehension
Pre-English
16. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Phonics
Semantics
GORT
Cedilla
17. 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
Phonemic Awareness
Phonics approach
Texas Education Code 38.003
Criterion referenced tests
18. 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.
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Criterion referenced tests
19. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Anglo Saxon
Closed Syllable
ADHD
Receptive language
20. Feeling through fingertips
Academic Achievement Tests
Comprehension
Tactile
Reading Comprehension Support
21. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Derivative
Norm-referenced tests
Standard score
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
22. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media
Visual Learners
Vowel Digraph
IMSLEC
Phonics
23. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Vowel Digraph
Frank Smith
Orthography
24. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Vr
Auditory Learners
Achievement test
Open Syllable
25. Individual Educational Plan
SBOE
Phonics approach
IEP
Standardized test
26. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Ability
Multi-Sensory Approach
Phonemic/ decodable words
Adolf Kusmaul
27. 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
Norm-referenced tests
Latin layer of language
Morphology
Cedilla
28. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss
Frank Smith
Norm-Referenced Test
Battery
Direct Instruction
29. 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.
Chall's Stage 2
Funding
Linguistic Method
Accent
30. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Accuracy
Visual Learners
Breve
Phonics
31. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Impulsivity
Phonemic Awareness
Semantics
Latin layer of language
32. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Fluency
Progress Monitoring
Auditory Learners
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
33. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Percentile
Mathew Effect
MSL
34. r-controlled syllable
Vr
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Progress Monitoring
Achievement test
35. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Syntax
Morphology
Standard Scores
Diagnostic Teaching
36. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn
Adolf Kusmaul
Social language
Achievement test
Chall's Stage 0
37. 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
Fluency
SBOE
Funding
Keith Stanovich
38. 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
Macron
Phonics approach
Funding
Morphology
39. 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
IMSLEC
Age equivalent
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
40. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Multi-Sensory Approach
Syntax
Sound Symbol Association
Closed Syllable
41. Open syllable
Universal Screening
V >
Adolf Kusmaul
James Hinshelwood
42. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Vowel
Quadrigraph
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Six basic types of syllables
43. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
NICHD
Breve
Closed Syllable
VV
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.
Auditory Learners
Chall's Stage 4
Accommodation
Social language
45. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies
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46. 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.
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Diagnostic Teaching
Semantics
Dyslexia
47. Whole body learning
V >
Kinesthetic
Suffix
Vowel Digraph
48. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Trigraph
Comprehension
Grapheme
49. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Auditory Processing
Morpheme
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Simultaneous teaching
50. 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.
Three Layers of Language
V-e
Breve
Texas Education Code 28.06