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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






2. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






3. 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






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






5. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






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






7. 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






8. 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.






9. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






10. 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






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






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






13. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)






14. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






15. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






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






17. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






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






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






20. Ability to understand and express spoken language






21. Feeling through fingertips






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






23. 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.






24. 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.






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






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






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






28. 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.






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






30. 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






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






32. 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.






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






34. 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.






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






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






37. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






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






39. 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.






40. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






41. Individual Educational Plan






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






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. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






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






46. Wide Range Achievement Test






47. 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.






48. State Board of Eduation






49. 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






50. r-controlled syllable