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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. Individual Educational Plan






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






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






4. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






5. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






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.






7. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






8. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






9. Open syllable






10. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






11. 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






12. Closed syllable






13. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






14. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






15. English as a second language






16. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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17. 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.






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






19. Wide Range Achievement Test






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






21. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






22. 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






23. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






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






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






26. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






27. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






28. 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






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






30. 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






31. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






32. 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.






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






34. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






35. 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.






36. 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)






37. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






38. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






39. Multisensory Structured Language Education






40. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






41. 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






42. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






43. 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.






44. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






45. 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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46. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






47. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






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






49. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






50. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children