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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






2. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






3. 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.






4. 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






5. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






6. 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.






7. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






8. 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






9. 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.






10. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






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






12. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






13. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






14. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.


15. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






16. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






17. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






18. 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






19. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






20. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






21. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






22. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






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






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






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






26. 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






27. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






28. 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.






29. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






30. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.






31. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






32. 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.






33. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






34. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






35. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






36. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






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






38. 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






39. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






40. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






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






42. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






43. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






44. Academic Language Therapy Association






45. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






46. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






47. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






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






49. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






50. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program