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Primary motor innveration to the larynx and velum is provided by which cranial
nerve? - CORRECT ANSWER Cranial nerve X (Vagus)
Fela is a third-grade student in a public school. She is a speaker of African American
Vernacular English (AAVE) who has difficulty with the Standard American English
(SAE) dialect used in her classroom. Her teacher believes that Fela's language skills
are affecting her academic performance and has referred her to the school's speech-
language pathologist. Which of the following is an appropriate rationale for providing
language intervention for Fela?
Select all that apply.
A.It will likely foster better communication with Fela's linguistically and culturally
diverse peers.
B.It will likely improve Fela's code-switching ability with her teacher and other adult
speakers of SAE.
C.It may expand Fela's later academic and vocational opportunities.
D.It will likely lead Fela to adopt SAE as her primary dialect. - CORRECT
ANSWER A, B, C
This investigation was motivated by observations that when persons with dysarthria
increase loudness, their speech improves. Some studies have indicated that this
improvement may be related to an increase of prosodic variation. Studies have
reported an increase of fundamental frequency (F0) variation with increased
loudness, but there has been no examination of the relation of loudness
manipulation to specific prosodic variables that are known to aid a listener in parsing
out meaningful information. This study examined the relation of vocal loudness
production to selected acoustic variables known to inform listeners of phrase and
sentence boundaries: specifically, F0 declination and final-word lengthening. Ten
young, healthy women were audio-recorded while they read aloud a paragraph at
what each considered normal loudness, twice-normal loudness, and half-normal
loudness. Results showed that there was a statistically significant increase of F0
declination, brought about by a higher resetting of F0 at the beginning of a sentence
and an increase of final-word lengthening from the half-normal loudness condition to
the twice-normal loudness condition. These results suggest that when some persons
with dysarthria increase loudness, variables related to prosody may change, which in
turn contributes to improvement in communicative effectiveness. However, until this
procedure is tested with individuals who have dysarthria, it is uncertain whether a
similar effect would be observed.
Which of the following represent(s) the independent variable or variables used in the
Watson and Hughes study?
A. Prosody of dysarthric speech
B. F0 declination and final-word lengthening
C. Vocal loudness
D. Speech intelligibility and communicative effectiveness - CORRECT ANSWER
C. Vocal loudness
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A client exhibits weakness, atrophy, and fasciculation's of the right side of the tongue
and lower face. The client also has right vocal-fold weakness and nasal regurgitation
of fluid when swallowing. These problems are the result of damage to which part of
the nervous system?
A. Brain stem
B. Cerebellum
C. Left cerebral cortex
D. Right cerebral cortex - CORRECT ANSWER A. Brain stem
- Weakness, atrophy, fasciculation's, and the other described symptoms are all
consistent with lower motor neurone locus and suspected cranial nerve
abnormalities, which emerge directly from the brainstem.
Hearing loss in infants who are born with a cleft palate is usually related to which of
the following?
A. The infant's ability to create positive pressure in the oral cavity
B. Malformation of the middle-ear ossicles associated with malformation of the palate
C. Eustachian tube dysfunction
D. Cochlear dysfunction - CORRECT ANSWER C. Eustachian tube dysfunction
- Eustachian tube dysfunction, a major factor contributing to middle-ear disease and
conductive hearing loss, is nearly universal in infants with cleft palate
Which of the following is the most important acoustic cue that distinguishes between
an unreleased final /p/ and an unreleased final /b/, as in cap versus cab?
A. Locus frequency of burst
B. Voice onset time
C. Vocal fundamental frequency
D. Duration of the preceding vowel - CORRECT ANSWER D. Duration of the
preceding vowel
- vowel duration influences a listener's perception of voicing
- vowels that precede unreleased voiced stop consonants are as much as 1.5x as
long as vowels that precede voiceless stops
Language intervention for a child at the one-word stage should be most strongly
influenced by a consideration of the child's
A. motor skills
B. cognitive skills
C. syntactic skills
D. articulation skills - CORRECT ANSWER B. cognitive skills
- the cognitive skills at the one-word stage will most strongly influence the child's
speech-language responses
A single exposure of several hours duration to continuous music with an overall level
of 100 dB SPL will most likely produce
A.tinnitus and a temporary threshold shift in high frequencies
B.tinnitus and a distortion of speech perception
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C.a temporary threshold shift in the low frequencies
D.a permanent threshold shift - CORRECT ANSWER A. tinnitus and a temporary
threshold shift in high frequencies
After sustaining a CVA, Ms. Williams, age 75, was referred to an SLP for a speech
and language evaluation. While Ms. Williams was describing the cookie-theft picture,
the SLP observed that her grammatical structure appeared to be intact and her
prosody was normal but that many of her sentences were meaningless, did not fit the
context, and included nonsensical paraphasic errors. Additional testing also revealed
that Ms. Williams exhibited poor repetition and naming skills, did not respond
appropriately to many simple commands, and had difficulty reading. Ms. Williams
appeared happy and talked excessively. She did not appear to be aware of her
communication deficits. What is the most likely location of the lesion?
A.Left posterior superior temporal gyrus
B.Left inferior frontal gyrus
C.Left superior frontal gyrus
D.Left inferior parietal gyrus - CORRECT ANSWER A. Left posterior superior
temporal gyrus
An SLP who is treating an adolescent who stutters designs a treatment plan that
includes three fluency management strategies: prolonged speech, cancellation, and
pullout.
Which of the following is true about the use of these treatment strategies?
Select all that apply.
A.Use of prolonged speech is likely to reduce the frequency of part-word repetitions
and sound prolongations significantly.
B.Each of the three strategies entails deliberate regulation of speech motor
movements.
C.The client will seek to apply cancellation whenever he feels anxious about the
possibility of stuttering overtly.
D.The client will seek to apply pullout during the course of part-word repetition or
sound prolongation. - CORRECT ANSWER A, B, D
A 12-year-old native speaker of Spanish who has been studying English as a second
language for three years is most likely to do which of the following when speaking
English in casual conversation with teachers at school?
A. Use the auxiliary "have" in place of "be" in progressive tenses
B. Use incorrect word order with prepositional phrases
C. Use conjunctions in place of prepositions
D. Use multiple negation improperly - CORRECT ANSWER D. Use multiple
negation improperly
- Multiple negation is a grammatical feature of Spanish but not English
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A prospective client is described as a man in his forties who is under chronic stress.
He uses his voice extensively in daily life, has a hard-driving personality, and exhibits
glottal fry. The client has the classic profile of a person at high risk for
A. spastic dysphonia
B. acute laryngitis
C. vocal nodules
D. contact ulcers - CORRECT ANSWER D. contact ulcers
Which of the following is an accurate statement about whispered speech?
A. it is produced by approximating the arytenoid cartilages so that their medial
surfaces are in direct contact
B. it is composed largely of aperiodic sounds
C. spectrographic analysis of it reveals no discernible formants for the vowels
D. most people can produce longer utterances per breath using it than they can
using conventional phonation - CORRECT ANSWER B. it is composed largely of
aperiodic sounds
- whispered speech is composed largely of aperiodic sounds, as the vocal folds do
not vibrate while whispering is taking place
Which of the following will most effectively control the problem of over referral in
school screening programs that use impedance/immittance measurements?
A. obtaining the measurements in a professional sound-insulated room
B. including 500Hz in the audiometric screening procedure
C. retesting immediately those who did not pass the first screening
D. waiting 3-5 weeks to retest those who did not pass the first screening -
CORRECT ANSWER D. waiting 3-5 weeks to retest those who did not pass the
first screening
- some children may have a temporary problem due to a cold or ear infection, which
may resolve in a few weeks
Six months ago, an SLP evaluated 4-year-old Molly's speech fluency during
conversation. At that time, she displayed physically relaxed repetitions of words and
phrases (occurring at a frequency of 2 per 100 words), and interjections such as
"um" (occurring at a frequency of 1 per 100 words). She did not display any sound
prolongations or facial grimaces; she did not produce any pitch rises or phonatory
breaks; and she did not appear to avoid any sounds or words. Results from several
formal tests suggested that her articulation and language development were within
normal limits. Molly reportedly began producing repetitions and interjections at age
24 months, and the frequency of these disfluency types reportedly has remained
stable since then. The SLP did not recommend speech-language intervention
following the previous evaluation; however, she did provide the parents with
information about fluency development, symptoms of stuttering, and general
suggestions for how to facilitate children's fluency. A reevaluation is scheduled for
next week. Which of the following is most appropriate for the SLP to do if Molly's
speech fluency has remained the same since the previous evaluation?
