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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Achievement test
Syntax
Synthetic Instruction
Linguistic Method
2. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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3. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
Reading Comprehension Support
Age equivalent
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Ability
4. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Dyslexia
ADHD
VAKT
Keith Stanovich
5. Ability to understand and express spoken language
Oral Language
Consonant
Pre-English
Keith Stanovich
6. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Consonant Digraph
Oral Language
Chall's Stage 1
V-e
7. Academic Language Therapy Association
Cognition
IDEA
Percentile
ALTA
8. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Dyslexia
Phonics
Auditory Learners
Six basic types of syllables
9. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Grapheme
IEP
CTOPP
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
10. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
VV
Standard score
Whole Language
Matthew Effect
11. 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
Chall's Stage 1
Dyslexia
Affix
Orthography
12. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
Attention
MSLE
Percentile/ percentile rank
Dyslexia
13. 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.
Percentile/ percentile rank
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
SBOE
ESL
14. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Impulsivity
Progress Monitoring
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
15. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Phoneme
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Phonemic/ decodable words
Whole Language
16. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Oral Language
RTI
Raw score
Criterion-Referenced Test
17. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Three Layers of Language
[-'le
Profile
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
18. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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19. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Dyslexia
Reading Comprehension Support
Chall's Stage 2
Syllable
20. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.
Old English
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Joe Torgesen
Expressive language
21. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Trigraph
Texas Education Code 28.06
Profile
Criterion-Referenced Test
22. 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
Reading Comprehension Support
Great Vowel Shift
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Vr
23. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.
Vowel Digraph
Closed Syllable
Top-down Reading Approach
Visual Learners
24. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
Visual Processing
RTI
Anglo Saxon
Synthetic Instruction
25. 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
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Anglo Saxon
Grapheme
Combination
26. 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.
Accent
Phonemic Awareness
Phonics approach
Percentile/ percentile rank
27. 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.
VV
Chall's Stage 3
Criterion referenced tests
Standard Scores
28. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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29. English as a second language
Phonological Awareness
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
ESL
Semantics
30. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Tactile
Anglo Saxon
Rate
Percentile
31. 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
GORT
James Hinshelwood
Linguistic Method
Middle English
32. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Diagnostic tests
CTOPP
Standard score
Visual Processing
33. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Sound Symbol Association
Visual Processing
Multisensory
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
34. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Syllable Instruction
Impulsivity
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
WIATII
35. 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
ALTA
GORT
Derivative
Criterion-Referenced Test
36. 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
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Pre-English
Macron
The Norman Conquest
37. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Anna Gillingham
Derivative
Dyslexia
Three Layers of Language
38. Feeling through fingertips
Chall's Stage 4
Tactile
GORT
Criterion-Referenced Test
39. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
MSL
James Hinshelwood
Stanine Scores
Texas Education Code 38.003
40. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
Consonant Digraph
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Direct Instruction
Comprehension
41. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Six basic types of syllables
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Whole Language
Macron
42. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Norm-referenced tests
Auditory Processing
Battery
43. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Components of Reading Instruction
Norm-referenced tests
GORT
Direct Instruction
44. Multisensory Structured Language Education
MSLE
Progress Monitoring
James Hinshelwood
Middle English
45. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
VC
Vr
Syntax
Joe Torgesen
46. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)
Analytic
Combination
Texas Education Code 28.06
Open Syllable
47. 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.
Visual Processing
Phonemic/ decodable words
RTI
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
48. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Academic Achievement Tests
Criterion referenced tests
Multisensory
Quadrigraph
49. 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.
Combination
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
[-'le
Accommodation
50. 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.
Diagnostic Teaching
Quadrigraph
Consonant
Accommodation