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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Closed Syllable
Progress Monitoring
Chall's Stage 1
James Hinshelwood
2. 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
Texas Education Code 28.06
V >
Dyslexia
Phonics approach
3. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Modern English
Accuracy
ADHD
4. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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5. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Anna Gillingham
Macron
Phonemic Awareness
Derivative
6. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
ADHD
Simultaneous teaching
Closed Syllable
7. 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
Norm-referenced tests
Vowel
Criterion referenced tests
Diagnostic tests
8. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
James Hinshelwood
Tilde
Raw score
9. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood
James Hinshelwood
Samuel T. Orton
Digraph
ALTA
10. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
ADHD
Top-down Reading Approach
Latin layer of language
Components of Reading Instruction
11. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Standardized test
Cognitive Assessment
Tactile
12. 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
Expressive language
Linguistic Method
Morphology
Combination
13. 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.
Standard Scores
WRAT
NICHD
Towre
14. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies
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15. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Chall's Stage 0
Attention
Letter naming Chart
Phonemic Awareness
16. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Chall's Stage 4
Reading Comprehension Support
Semantics
Morphology
17. Multisensory Structured Language Education
Reading Comprehension Support
MSLE
Tactile
Chall's Stage 0
18. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Modern English
Diagnostic tests
Phonics
Synthetic Instruction
19. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Percentile
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Components of Reading Instruction
Chall's Stage 0
20. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Texas Education Code 38.003
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Auditory Processing
Reliability
21. Feeling through fingertips
Grade equivalents
Academic Achievement Tests
Chall's Stage 3
Tactile
22. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Frank Smith
Analytic
Syllable Instruction
Morphology
23. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
Breve
Attention
Consonant
Chall's Stage 0
24. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.
Diagnostic tests
Trigraph
Accent
Six basic types of syllables
25. 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
Criterion-Referenced Test
Combination
Great Vowel Shift
V-e
26. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Multi-Sensory Approach
Phonemic/ decodable words
Latin layer of language
Phonological Awareness
27. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Six basic types of syllables
Morphology
Great Vowel Shift
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
28. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Cognitive Assessment
[-'le
NICHD
Semantics
29. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Dyslexia
Progress Monitoring
Synthetic Instruction
Reading Comprehension Support
30. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Grapheme
Modification
Three Layers of Language
Universal Screening
31. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Anglo Saxon
Impulsivity
Derived Score
Profile
32. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Mathew Effect
Reliability
Consonant
Vr
33. 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
Reading Comprehension Support
Norm-Referenced Test
Oral Language
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
34. 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
The Norman Conquest
Criterion referenced tests
Analytic
Phonics approach
35. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Chall's Stage 5
Orthography
Visual Processing
Semantics
36. 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.
Raw score
Breve
Receptive language
IMSLEC
37. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
Phonology
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Consonant Digraph
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
Multi-Sensory Approach
Tactile
Stanine Scores
Anna Gillingham
39. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
Towre
Receptive language
Texas Education Code 38.003
Grapheme
40. 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.
Achievement test
Percentile/ percentile rank
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Samuel T. Orton
41. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Semantics
Reliability
Towre
Vowel Digraph
42. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Ability
ALTA
Multisensory
Macron
43. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Whole Language
Cognitive Assessment
Chall's Stage 0
44. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Phonology
Stanine Scores
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Tilde
45. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
Impulsivity
IMSLEC
Syntax
Universal Screening
46. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Chall's Stage 3
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Age equivalent
47. 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
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Pre-English
James Hinshelwood
Top-down Reading Approach
48. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Chall's Stage 2
Chall's Stage 3
Chall's Stage 1
Fluency
49. 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.
Diagnostic Teaching
Progress Monitoring
VV
Composite Score
50. 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.
Middle English
Vowel
Syllable
Breve