Praxis SLP Practice Exam B Questions And Answers 100% Pass
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Praxis SLP Practice Exam B Questions And
Answers 100% Pass
1. A child has been referred to a SLP for a comprehensive language evaluation, with reports of
"global language problems". Following evaluation, the SLP determines that the child is
demonstrating word-finding difficulties, comprehension...
Praxis SLP Practice Exam B Questions And
Answers 100% Pass
1. A child has been referred to a SLP for a comprehensive language evaluation, with reports of
"global language problems". Following evaluation, the SLP determines that the child is
demonstrating word-finding difficulties, comprehension deficits and disorganized language, in
addition to deficits in attention and executive functioning. Which of the following disorders does
the child MOST LIKELY demonstrate?
a. traumatic brain injury
b. cerebral palsy
c. autism spectrum disorder
d. Down syndrome - answer✔a. traumatic brain injury
2. A SLP has been working on narrative structure with a middle school student on the SLPs
caseload. Recently, the child wrote a story about her weekend, which reads "My family was
going to a friend's birthday party. We were late to the birthday party." Using this information, the
SLP would like to assign a narrative episode level to this child's story. Which of the following
narrative levels BEST describes the child's story?
a. abbreviated episode
b. incomplete episode
c. complete episode
d. action sequence - answer✔b. incomplete episode
3. Andy is a SLP who has recently branched out into providing tele practice services to in-state
clients who are unable to be treated at his private practice center. Joseph is a friend of Andy's
who lives in another state in which Andy does not have licensure and has just heard about Andy's
new service delivery. Jospeh asks Andy to treat his mother, who has Wernicke's aphasia, as
Jospeh would like his mother to receive more treatment than she is currently. How should Andy
proceed in the treatment of Jospeh's mother?
a. recommend against treatment, as tele practice has not been proven in treating Wernicke's
aphasia
b. recommend against treatment, as Joseph's mother is already receiving services
c. share the mother's case information with a fellow SLP in the state win which Jospeh lives
d. refer the friend to another SLP who has licensure in the state in which Jospeh lives -
answer✔d. refer the friend to another SLP who has licensure in the state in which Jospeh lives
4. During an intervention session, a child produces the utterance "Mommy go run." The child's
SLP uses an expansion approach to increase the complexity of the child's utterance. Which of the
following statements could this SLP use in response to the child?
a. "Mommy's going to run."
b. "Mommy's going to run to the house."
c. "Where is Mommy going?"
d. "Say 'Mommy is going to run.'" - answer✔a. "Mommy's going to run."
5. A SLP is attempting to perform an evaluation on a new Pediactric client and would like to
perform an analysis to compare the client's correct consonant productions to the entire speech
sample. Which means of assessment would be the MOST APPROPRIATE choice for this SLP
too make?
a. percent consonants correct
b. phonological mean length of utterance
c. phonological error patterns analysis
d. traditional analysis - answer✔a. percent consonants correct
6. Erica is a young child who demonstrates pragmatic difficulties. Specifically, Eric has
difficulties with presupposition skills, which her SLP has been targeting in order to improve
Erica's conversational abilities. Which of the following would be the MOST APPROPRIATE
goal for Erica's intervention?
a. the child will utilize gestures in conversation to reinforce engaging topics of conversation
b. the child will understand that communication partners have perspectives and feelings different
from her own
c. the child will modify communicative attempts based on the needs of their communication
partner
d. the child will understand that communicative partners engage in conversation with certain
expectations for communication - answer✔c. the child will modify communicative attempts
based on the needs of their communication partner
7. Andy is an infant being evaluated by a SLP during an early intervention home visit. The SLP
notes that Andy demonstrates vocal play, raspberries, trills and marginal babbling during the
evaluation. Using this information, which stage of linguistic development does Andy fall within?
a. exploration/expansion stage
b. coo and goo stage
c. canonical babbling stage
d. phonation stage - answer✔a. exploration/expansion stage
8. During the transmission of an action potential, after a neuron has fired, there is an absolute
refractory period. This is a delay during which a neuron is unable to transmit further action
potentials. This delay must expire before that neuron can fire again because:
a. sodium (Na+) ions continue to flow out of the cell after an action potential spike
b. potassium ions (K+) continue to flow out of the cell after an action potential spike
c. voltage-gated Na+ channels are periodically inactivated after opening
d. voltage-gated potassium (K+) channels are periodically inactivated after opening
**same as A129 - answer✔c. voltage-gated Na+ channels are periodically inactivated after
opening
9. An audiologist has recently completed a full audiometric evaluation on a patient with
complaints of hearing loss with the following pure tone average of 78 dB hearing loss in the right
ear and 23 dB hearing loss in the left ear. Which of the following statements BEST describes this
patient?
a. the patient demonstrates a severe right hearing loss and a minimal left hearing loss
b. the patient demonstrates a profound right hearing loss and mild left hearing loss
c. the patient demonstrates a moderately severe right hearing loss and normal left hearing
d. the patient demonstrates a severe right hearing loss and a mild left hearing loss - answer✔a.
the patient demonstrates a severe right hearing loss and a minimal left hearing loss
10. A client arrives at the SLP clinic at an acute care hospital with complaints of " a change in
voice." After comprehensive endoscopic evaluation, the SLP notes that the deficit is most likely
not one of resonance due to problems of velopharyngeal closure, as this client exhibits "the most
common pattern of velopharyngeal closure." Which of the following BEST describes this client's
pattern of closure?
a. circular pattern with approximately equal activity of the velum, lateral pharyngeal walls and
posterior pharyngeal wall
b. coronal pattern with the velum contacting the pharyngeal wall
c. sagittal pattern with medial lateral pharyngeal wall moving as the primary contributor to
closure
d. circular pattern with a passavant's ridge - answer✔b. coronal pattern with the velum contacting
the pharyngeal wall
11. A person places a hand on a hot surface and experiences the sensation of heat. The feeling of
heat is converted up to the primary somatosensory cortex in the parental lobe. In order for this
information to be received in this cortical area, it must first travel up the spinal column, via the:
a. lateral corticospinal tract
b. anterior corticospinal trat
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