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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Towre
Phonics approach
Syntax
Stanine Scores
2. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Mathew Effect
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Criterion referenced tests
Trigraph
3. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Composite Score
Open Syllable
GORT
James Hinshelwood
4. 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
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Visual Learners
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Curriculum referenced tests
5. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
NICHD
Visual Processing
Matthew Effect
Towre
6. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Diphthong
Modification
Oral Language
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
7. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Percentile
Multi-Sensory Approach
Stanine Scores
8. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Raw score
Standardized test
Pre-English
Vowel
9. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Raw score
Battery
Norm-referenced tests
Comprehension
10. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
IDEA
Frank Smith
RTI
Affix
11. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Receptive language
Digraph
Latin layer of language
12. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Texas Education Code 28.06
Auditory Processing
The Norman Conquest
Universal Screening
13. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
WIATII
Visual Learners
Quadrigraph
Multisensory
14. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Components of Reading Instruction
Norm-referenced tests
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
15. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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16. 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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17. Wide Range Achievement Test
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Funding
Anna Gillingham
WRAT
18. 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
Phonics approach
Tilde
Chall's Stage 4
Linguistic Method
19. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
V-e
VV
Multi-Sensory Approach
Syllable Instruction
20. 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 -
Achievement test
Composite Score
Accuracy
Middle English
21. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Expressive language
Prefix
Macron
Chall's Stage 1
22. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Breve
Vr
Grapheme
Analytic
23. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
ESL
Social language
Comprehension
Cognitive Assessment
24. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Affix
Cedilla
MSL
25. 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.
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Rate
Anglo Saxon
Auditory Learners
26. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Modern English
Morphology
Sound Symbol Association
Phonological Awareness
27. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Morphology
Texas Education Code 38.003
Pre-English
Semantics
28. English as a second language
Pre-English
Chall's Stage 2
ESL
Cedilla
29. 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.
Age equivalent
Oral Language
Standard Scores
MSLE
30. 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
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
MSL
Criterion-Referenced Test
Accommodation
31. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Direct Instruction
Six basic types of syllables
Analytic
32. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Fluency
Consonant Digraph
Digraph
Three Layers of Language
33. 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.
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Chall's Stage 4
CTOPP
V-e
34. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
V >
Closed Syllable
SBOE
Texas Education Code 28.06
35. 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.
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Impulsivity
Latin layer of language
The Norman Conquest
36. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Syllable Instruction
Accuracy
Phoneme
Letter naming Chart
37. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Orthography
Criterion referenced tests
38. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Reliability
Multisensory
Fluency
Visual Processing
39. 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
Whole Language
Frank Smith
Norm-Referenced Test
Mathew Effect
40. Feeling through fingertips
Consonant Digraph
Vowel
VC
Tactile
41. 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
Phonemic/ decodable words
Linguistic Method
Percentile
Modification
42. State Board of Eduation
SBOE
Six basic types of syllables
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Consonant
43. 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
Criterion referenced tests
Joe Torgesen
Phonology
Simultaneous teaching
44. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes
Syllable
Norm-Referenced Test
Letter naming Chart
Percentile/ percentile rank
45. 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
Fluency
Samuel T. Orton
Morpheme
46. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Standard deviation
Trigraph
Middle English
Curriculum referenced tests
47. 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
Orthography
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Pre-English
Phonemic Awareness
48. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Sound Symbol Association
Syllable Instruction
Ability
Social language
49. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
VAKT
Morphology
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Latin layer of language
50. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Cedilla
Greek layer of language
Frank Smith
Adolf Kusmaul