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






2. 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.






3. 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






4. 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.






5. 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.






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

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7. English as a second language






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






9. 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






10. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






11. 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.






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






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






14. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






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






16. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






17. 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






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






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






20. 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






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






22. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






23. Whole body learning






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






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

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






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






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






29. Ability to understand and express spoken language






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






31. 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






32. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






33. Feeling through fingertips






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






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






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






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






38. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






39. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






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






41. 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






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






43. 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






44. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






45. 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.






46. 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






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






48. 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






49. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






50. 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