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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






2. 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






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






4. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






5. 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






6. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






7. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






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






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






10. 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






11. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






12. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






13. 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.






14. 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






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






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






17. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






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






19. Feeling through fingertips






20. 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.






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






22. 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






23. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






24. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






25. 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






26. Ability to understand and express spoken language






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






28. 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.






29. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






30. 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.






31. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






32. 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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33. Open syllable






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






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






36. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






37. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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38. 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.






39. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






40. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






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






42. 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






43. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






44. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






45. State Board of Eduation






46. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat






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






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

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






50. Multisensory Structured Language Education






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