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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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






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






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






4. 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.






5. 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






6. 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.






7. 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






8. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






9. Individual Educational Plan






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






11. 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






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






13. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






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






15. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






16. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






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






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






19. 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






20. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






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






22. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






23. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






24. 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






25. 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






26. 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.






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






28. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






29. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






30. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat






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






32. 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






33. Multisensory Structured Language Education






34. 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






35. Multisensory Structured Language






36. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






37. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






38. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






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






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






41. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






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






43. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






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






45. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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46. 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






47. r-controlled syllable






48. 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.






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






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