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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






2. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






3. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






4. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






5. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






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

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7. 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.






8. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






9. Final stable syllable

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






11. 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






12. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






13. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






14. 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






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






16. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






17. 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






18. 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.






19. 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






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






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






22. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






23. 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






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






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






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






27. 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.






28. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






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






30. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






31. 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.






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






33. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






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






35. 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






36. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.






37. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail






38. r-controlled syllable






39. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






40. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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41. 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






42. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






43. 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.






44. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






45. Wide Range Achievement Test






46. Whole body learning






47. English as a second language






48. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






49. 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)






50. 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






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