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SLP-PRAXIS (5331) Preparation Exam
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Justin is a highly unintelligible 4-year-old boy. He has difficulties producing /w/, /t/, /d/, and /th/.
If you were to treat him using a least phonological knowledge approach, your first target sound
in therapy would be:________ - answer✔/th/
Patients who exhibit _________ have difficulty making nonspeech sounds, and cannot move the
muscles of the throat, soft palate, and tongue for nonspeech purposes: - answer✔oral apraxia
In ________ otitis media, the infection continues over a long period and the tympanic membrane
is permanently ruptured. - answer✔chronic
Examples of secondary stuttering include... - answer✔quivering of the nostrils hard blinking
Danielle's father is concerned because her peers in preschool make fun of her speech. Danielle
has normal receptive language and enjoys conversing with others. You share with her father that
a 4-year-old child should be _____% intelligible - answer✔90-100%
When carcinoma affects the cricoid and trachea, the damage is.... - answer✔subglottic
In the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, the patient has more... - answer✔cognition problems >
language problems
A patient arrives at an acute care hospital in order to have open heart surgery. After the surgery
he complains about change in vocal quality and the SLP is consulted. He presents with an
excessively high-pitched voice. What is the most likely cause of his change in vocal quality? -
answer✔Damage of the left recurrent laryngeal nerve (part of Cranial Nerve 10) during surgery.
Do normal adults aspirate during swallow? - answer✔Yes. Everyone aspirates without realizing
it, a little each day.
Social interactionist theorists believe that... - answer✔the structure of human language may have
arisen from language's social communicative function in human relations
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Which of the following characteristics distinguish autism from Aperger's syndrome? -
answer✔Lower IQ and lower language skills in autism; the reverse in Asperger's syndrome
Which of the following cranial nerves is primarily responsible for innervating the larynx? -
answer✔Cranial Nerve X
When we assess culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students, we need to remember that
federal law specifically mandates which of the following treatment guidelines? -
answer✔Testing and evaluation materials must be provided and administered in the language or
other mode of communication in which the child is most proficient.
A 65-year-old man with presbycusis comes to you complaining that when he is in social
situations such as parties, people don't speak loudly enough. He says that the noise creates a
problem for him in hearing what people are saying. With what does this client have difficulty? -
answer✔signal-to-noise ratio
In developing a test with 100 items, a test developer correlates responses to the first 50 items
with responses to the last 50 items. What is this intended to evaluate? - answer✔Split-half
reliability
In the scientific method, what is the experiment-first-and-explain-later approach? - answer✔The
Inductive method
A speech-language pathologist is holding a conference with the family of a 16-year-old girl with
severe language-learning disabilities. The girl reads at a 3rd-grade level and has been in special
education placements since 1st-grade. The speech-language pathologist tells the family, in a kind
way, that their goal of their daughter attending medical school is unattainable. The family lashes
out in anger against the speech-language pathologist, saying that he is wrong, pessimistic, and
negative about their daughter and her abilities. In this situation, the family is utilizing which
defense mechanism? - answer✔Displacement
Which term describes a child's ability to mentally sort speech stimuli or remember what he or
she has heard? - answer✔Auditory memory
In Oller's stages of infant phonological development, reduplicated babbling precedes which of
the following? - answer✔Nonreduplicated or variegated babbling
What is the procedure that uses a pulsing light to permit the optical illusion of slow-motion
viewing of the vocal folds? - answer✔Stroboscopy
True or False? Some forms of dementia are reversible, especially in their early stages. -
answer✔True.
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True or False? In right hemisphere syndrome, language is more severely impaired than
communication. - answer✔False.
With a typically developing child who speaks English as a second language, approximately how
long does it take for basic interpersonal communication skills (BICS) to develop to a level
commensurate with that of native English speakers? - answer✔2 years
Which one of the following is a homophonous pair? sheep--beep man--ban pan--fan honey--
money list--gist - answer✔man--ban
It would be considered ethical for a speech-language pathologist to do which of the following? -
answer✔Make a reasonable statement of prognosis when the husband of a woman with aphasia
asks about his wife's potential for improvement
The term coarticulation refers to which of the following? - answer✔The influence of one
phoneme upon another in production and perception, wherein two different articulators move
simultaneously to produce two different speech sounds
At what age should a typically developing child be able to understand agent-action relationships?
- answer✔3-4 years
How do most professionals generally categorize cerebral palsy? - answer✔Ataxic, athetoid, and
spastic types
A child's speech analysis suggests the phonological process of consonant-cluster reduction.
Which of the following is the word you would most likely put on a word list used for treatment?
- answer✔stopped
Brutten and Shoemaker hypothesized that stuttering, as they defined it, is... - answer✔is caused
by classically conditioned negative emotion
A 67-year-old man comes to you for an evaluation. He states that his voice has been getting
"weaker" for the last 5 or 6 months. During oral peripheral examination, you find that he has
fasciculations (tremors) of the tongue and some general facial weakness. What is the first thing
you do? - answer✔Refer him to a neurologist for an evaluation
A kindergarten teacher refers Tomiko to you for a speech-language screening. Tomiko's first
language is Japanese, and she has been exposed to English for 8 months in school. The teacher is
concerned because he thinks that Tomiko "has a speech problem." Which one of the following
patterns (in English) would you not expect to find in a student who speaks Japanese? -
answer✔Substitution of t/k (e.g., tea/key)
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What is the muscle that exerts the pull that allows the Eustachian tube to open during yawning
and swallowing? - answer✔the Tensor palatini
Functional communicative behaviors are... - answer✔behaviors that promote communication in
natural settings
Which of the following statements is false regarding Public Law 99-457? A. It increased federal
support for services to children with disabilities 3 to 6 years of age and provided funding for
infants and toddlers. B. It requires the development of individualized family service plans. C. It
allows at-risk preschool children (not just those with documented disabilities) to be eligible for
special education services. D. It requires states to report preschool children by disability
category. E. It was intended to provide early intervention that would reduce the number of
children requiring special education services in later years. - answer✔D. is false
Broad phonemic transcription involves which of the following? - answer✔The use of IPA
symbols to transcribe phonemes by enclosing them within slash marks (e.g., /f/)
Which of the following is an example of an entity + locative? - answer✔Juice [in] glass
What are the cartilages that are cone-shaped and are located under the mucous membrane that
covers the aryepiglottic folds called? - answer✔Cuneiforms
Which of the following primarily vibrate and produce sound in the larynx? - answer✔the internal
thyroarytenoids (or the thyrovocalis)
Nicole, a voice major, is having problems raising the pitch of her voice. Her speech-language
pathologist recommends that she lengthen and tense her vocal folds to increase her pitch. Which
muscle is involved in achieving this goal? - answer✔Cricothyroid
Which cranial nerve innervates the larynx and the levator veli palatini, palatoglossus, and
palatopharyngeus muscles? - answer✔Cranial Nerve X, the vagus nerve
Speech sounds are classified in various ways. Select the statement that is correct according to the
classification mentioned in each answer. A. Voicing makes a distinction between vowels and
consonants. B. The cognate pairs distinction is based on the place of articulation. C. Among
others, speech sounds bilabials and labiodentals are based on the manner of articulation. D.
Among others, speech sounds affricates, stops, and liquids are based on the manner of
articulation. E. Among others, speech sounds glides and stops are based on the place of
articulation. - answer✔D. is the correct statement.
Select the two properties of a medium that affect sound transmission. - answer✔Mass and
elasticity
