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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






2. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






3. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






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






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






6. 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






7. 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.






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






9. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






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






11. 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






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






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






14. Wide Range Achievement Test






15. 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






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






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






18. 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.






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






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






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






22. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






23. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






24. 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.






25. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






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






27. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






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






29. 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






30. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






31. 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.






32. 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






33. Multisensory Structured Language






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






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






36. 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.






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






38. State Board of Eduation






39. 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.






40. 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






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






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






43. 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.






44. 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.






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






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

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






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






49. English as a second language






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







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