CALT EXAM NEWEST A CTUAL EXAM

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CALT EXAM NEWEST A CTUAL EXAM

QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED

ANSWERS (VERIFIED) RATED A+

The National Reading Panel (NRP) - "The Big 5" - ANSWER - 5 essential components

of reading:

• Explicit instruction in PHONEMIC AWARENESS
• Systematic PHONICS instruction
• Techniques to improve FLUENCY (accuracy, speed, understanding, and prosody)
• VOCABULARY development
• Reading COMPREHENSION

Which domains are involved in spelling? - ANSWER - Orthography + Phonology Semantics + Syntax

Rehabilitation Act of 1973 - 504 - ANSWER - 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 Does not provide funding but can without federal funding Public schools receive federal funding so law applies

Why should children read nonsense words? - ANSWER - To build fluency, also called word attack skills

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Texas administrative Code 74 28 - ANSWER - State Board of Education Rule:

-District board of trustee must make sure dyslexic procedures are given to the districts -Districts must use approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia -State board of education does not recommend programs or provide guidelines and descriptions

-Instruction must be at students campus -Districts must notify parents prior to testing, this is their rights under 504 -Early identification must be available -Districts must provide a parent educational program

Expressive Language - ANSWER - Form, Use, Context -The ability to use sounds, signs, or symbols to communicate meaning

Individuals with Disabilities Educational Act - IDEA Revision 2008 - ANSWER - -Law created to make available a free appropriate public education (FAPE) to eligible children with disabilities throughout the national and ensures special education and related services

-December 1, 2008 Revision: Clarify and strengthen current federal regulations

regarding parental consent, hearing rights, state monitoring and enforcement

Multisensory - ANSWER - Using more than one of the senses:

visual- what you see auditory- what you hear tactile- what you touch and handle Suprasegmental - ANSWER - Aspect of Language 2 / 3

pg. 3 (intonation, stress, loudness, pitch level, juncture - (the set of features in speech that enable a hearer to detect a word or phrase boundary), and speaking rate)

Segmental - ANSWER - Aspect of Language (phonemes - vowels & consonants)

Phonoligical Awareness - ANSWER - The knowledge of and sensitivity to the sound structure of language (umbrella term)

It includes: rhyming, segmentation activities, and manipulation activities

Segmentation Activities - segmenting sentences into words, segmenting compound words into syllables, segmenting words into syllables, identifying initial and final sounds, and segmenting syllables into phonemes

Manipulation Activities - omitting syllables, omitting sounds in words, and changing sounds into words

Dysarthria - ANSWER - A disorder in the nervous system which hinders control over the tongue, throat, lips, or lungs

Neurological oral-motor dysfunction including weakness of the musculature necessary for coordinating movements of speech production (slurred speech, difficulty with articulation)

Dyspraxia - ANSWER - Sensorimotor disruption in which the motor signals to the muscles, such as those necessary for speech production, are not consistently or efficiently received

Difficulty getting the body to do what you want it to Difficulty planning and coordinating body movement Difficulty coordinating facial muscles to produce sounds

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