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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school






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






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






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






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






6. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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7. 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






8. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






9. Multisensory Structured Language Education






10. 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






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






12. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






13. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






14. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






15. 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






16. 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.






17. Wide Range Achievement Test






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






19. 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.






20. 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






21. Feeling through fingertips






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






23. 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.






24. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






25. 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.






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






27. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






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






29. 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.






30. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






31. 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






32. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






33. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






34. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






35. 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






36. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






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






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






39. 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.






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






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






42. 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






43. 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.






44. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






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






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






47. 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.






48. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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49. 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






50. English as a second language