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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. 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






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

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3. 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






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






5. 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






6. 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.






7. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






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






9. 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






10. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






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






12. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.






13. 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






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






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






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






17. Multisensory Structured Language Education






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






19. 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.






20. 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






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






22. 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






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






24. 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






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






26. Academic Language Therapy Association






27. 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






28. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






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






30. 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






31. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






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






33. Open syllable






34. 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






35. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






36. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






37. 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.






38. 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






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






40. r-controlled syllable






41. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






42. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






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






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






45. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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46. Feeling through fingertips






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






48. 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.






49. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






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

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