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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






2. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






3. 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






4. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






5. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






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






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






8. 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






9. r-controlled syllable






10. 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






11. 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






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






13. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






14. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






15. 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.






16. 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.






17. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






18. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






19. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






20. 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.






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






22. Feeling through fingertips






23. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






24. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






25. 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.






26. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






27. 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.






28. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






29. 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.






30. State Board of Eduation






31. 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.






32. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






33. 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






34. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






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






36. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






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






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






39. Ability to understand and express spoken language






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






41. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






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






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






44. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






45. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






46. 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






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






48. 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.






49. 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.






50. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek