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






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






3. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






4. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






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






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






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






8. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






9. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






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






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. 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






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






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






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






16. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development


17. 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.






18. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






19. 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.






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






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






22. 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






23. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






24. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






25. 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






26. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






27. Open syllable






28. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






29. Wide Range Achievement Test






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






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






33. 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.






34. 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.






35. 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.






36. 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






37. 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.






38. 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






39. 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






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






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






42. 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.






43. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






44. 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)






45. 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.






46. r-controlled syllable






47. 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.






48. Feeling through fingertips






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






50. 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