CALT EXAM / QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS
Suprasegmental Right Ans - Aspect of Language
(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 Right Ans - Aspect of Language
(phonemes - vowels & consonants)
Phonoligical Awareness Right Ans - 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 Right Ans - 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 Right Ans - 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
,(a person is born with dyspraxia)
Phonemic Awareness Right Ans - Awareness of the smallest units of speech
(phonemes) and the ability to isolate or manipulate the individual phonemes
in words
Phonetics Right Ans - The study of linguistic speech sounds and how they
are produced and perceived
Alphabetic Principle Right Ans - The concept that letters on a page
represent or map onto the sounds in spoken words
Alphabetic Language Right Ans - A language, such as English, in which
letters are used systematically to represent speech sounds or phonemes
Logographic Writing System Right Ans - A system in which pictures
represent the words of a language, such as Chinese
If English was treated as a logographic writing system, it would contain over
700,000 symbols
Grapheme Right Ans - A written letter or letter cluster representing a
single speech sound
Ex: i, igh
Phonics Right Ans - An approach to teaching reading and spelling that
emphasizes sound-symbol relationships
Sound + Letters
Euphony Right Ans - Words formed or combined as to please the ear
The tendency to make phonetic change for ease of pronunciation
6 Kinds of Syllables Right Ans - Open
Closed
Vowel - Consonant - e
, Final Stable Syllable
Vowel Pair
Vowel - r
Naughty i Right Ans - The vowel i is naughty when it is before a final stable
syllable in a words with three or more syllables
It will be short and coded with a breve
Ex: Tra di [tion
Base Word Right Ans - The simplest form of any English word to which
affixes may be added
A base word is always a complete English word when it stands alone
Strephosymbolia (1925) Right Ans - (Twisted Symbols)
Dr. Orton coined the term to describe a condition he observed in his patients
"Word Blindness"
Samuel T. Orton Right Ans - (Father of Dyslexia)
Identified the syndrome of "specific language disabilities"
Separated disabled readers from students with mental retardation, brain
damage, and primary emotional disorders
Proposed a system for diagnosis
Outlined principles of remediation for disabled readers
Dysgraphia Right Ans - Unsure of handedness, poor or slow handwriting,
messy and unorganized papers, difficulty copying, poor fine motor skills,
difficulty remembering the kinesthetic movement to form letters correctly
Stop Sounds Right Ans - These are sounds in words that when they are
said, you have to stop your tongue to release the air
Suprasegmental Right Ans - Aspect of Language
(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 Right Ans - Aspect of Language
(phonemes - vowels & consonants)
Phonoligical Awareness Right Ans - 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 Right Ans - 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 Right Ans - 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
,(a person is born with dyspraxia)
Phonemic Awareness Right Ans - Awareness of the smallest units of speech
(phonemes) and the ability to isolate or manipulate the individual phonemes
in words
Phonetics Right Ans - The study of linguistic speech sounds and how they
are produced and perceived
Alphabetic Principle Right Ans - The concept that letters on a page
represent or map onto the sounds in spoken words
Alphabetic Language Right Ans - A language, such as English, in which
letters are used systematically to represent speech sounds or phonemes
Logographic Writing System Right Ans - A system in which pictures
represent the words of a language, such as Chinese
If English was treated as a logographic writing system, it would contain over
700,000 symbols
Grapheme Right Ans - A written letter or letter cluster representing a
single speech sound
Ex: i, igh
Phonics Right Ans - An approach to teaching reading and spelling that
emphasizes sound-symbol relationships
Sound + Letters
Euphony Right Ans - Words formed or combined as to please the ear
The tendency to make phonetic change for ease of pronunciation
6 Kinds of Syllables Right Ans - Open
Closed
Vowel - Consonant - e
, Final Stable Syllable
Vowel Pair
Vowel - r
Naughty i Right Ans - The vowel i is naughty when it is before a final stable
syllable in a words with three or more syllables
It will be short and coded with a breve
Ex: Tra di [tion
Base Word Right Ans - The simplest form of any English word to which
affixes may be added
A base word is always a complete English word when it stands alone
Strephosymbolia (1925) Right Ans - (Twisted Symbols)
Dr. Orton coined the term to describe a condition he observed in his patients
"Word Blindness"
Samuel T. Orton Right Ans - (Father of Dyslexia)
Identified the syndrome of "specific language disabilities"
Separated disabled readers from students with mental retardation, brain
damage, and primary emotional disorders
Proposed a system for diagnosis
Outlined principles of remediation for disabled readers
Dysgraphia Right Ans - Unsure of handedness, poor or slow handwriting,
messy and unorganized papers, difficulty copying, poor fine motor skills,
difficulty remembering the kinesthetic movement to form letters correctly
Stop Sounds Right Ans - These are sounds in words that when they are
said, you have to stop your tongue to release the air
