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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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






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






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






4. 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






5. Open syllable






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






7. 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






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






9. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






10. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






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






12. Closed syllable






13. English as a second language






14. 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.






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






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






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






18. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






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






20. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






21. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






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






23. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






24. 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






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






26. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






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. 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.






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






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






31. 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






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






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






34. Feeling through fingertips






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. Whole body learning






37. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






38. 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.






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






40. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






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






42. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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43. 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






44. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






45. 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.






46. Academic Language Therapy Association






47. 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






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






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






50. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)







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