Speech intelligibility - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Chapter 6 - Language & Speech of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Questions and Answers 100% Solved What are the 3 factors that account for differences in language acquisition among children with hearing impairment? 1) Degree of loss 2) Age of onset 3) Other co-occuring disabilities What are the predictors of early expressive language development in children who are deaf or hard of hearing? 1) child's age 2) age of identification of child's hearing loss 3) age of implantation 4) chi...

ETS Praxis Audiology Practice Test with Verified Solutions Which of the following is true of the occlusion effect observed during pure tone audiometry? A.It results in artificially poorer thresholds at all frequencies. B.It can affect the measurement of air-conduction thresholds at low frequencies. C.It can affect the measurement of air-conduction thresholds at high frequencies. D.It can affect the measurement of bone-conduction thresholds at low frequencies. E.It can affect the mea...

You are evaluating a 5-year-old boy whose mother has a history of alcohol abuse while she was carrying her son. In your assessment, you would look for specific speech and language problems; in addition, you would look for which of the following positive or negative signs? A. Normal motor and intellectual development, normal play activities, and normal facial and skull features B. Language problems, but no speech problems, coupled with good eye contact and generally compliant behavior C....

What is an SSD? - ANSWER-- Speech Sound Disorders: o Difficulty with perceiving, phonologically (mentally) representing and/or articulating speech, impacting speech intelligibility and acceptability, not typical of a child's age. - Mental representation of a sound: hearing the word in your brain without saying it o Sounds are stored o More than hearing, its perceiving 5 types of SSD - ANSWER-1. Phonological impairment (most common) a. A cognitive-linguistic difficulty with learning the...

1. Primary motor innveration to the larynx and velum is provided by which cranial nerve? ANS Cranial nerve X (Vagus) 2. 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 follo...

Speech Language Pathology Praxis Exam Questions and Answers In therapy, you decide to use minimal pairs as part of your treatment plan to increase the child's intelligibility. Which one of the following is NOT a minimal pair? a) Me - Meat b) duck - luck c) mud - moon d) pen - ten -Answer-c) mud - moon Minimal pairs are words that are very similar and only vary by a single sound How many thoracic vertebrae are there? a) 7 b) 12 c) 5 d) 3 - 4 -Answer-b) 12 Your thoracic spine consis...

Caloric test is designed to stimulate which of the following structures? : The lateral semicircular canal An individual who continues to react to new stimuli with responses that are carried over from previous tasks exhibits... : Perseveration What is a complete and accurate list of the signals required by federal regulations for monitoring audiometry in industry? : 500, 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, and 6000 Hz An audiologist wishes to assess the progress of an adult client who is participat...

Medical SLP - Praxis Practice Questions All Answers Correct At about what age do infants begin to send intentional and purposeful messages via babbling and gesturing? a. 3 months b. 6 months c. 10 months d. 2 years old ️️c. 10 months intentional and purposeful switch from perlocutionary to illocutionary What are the characteristics of a fluency disorder, and how is it treated? Characteristics of a fluency disorder, such as stuttering, include frequent disruptions in the f...

Define Audiologic Rehabilitation correct answers Professional processes performed in collaboration with a client who has hearing loss and clients significant others to achieve better communication and minimize difficulties Auditory habilitation correct answers Refers to audiologic services for children who never had hearing What must one be knowledeable of to perform AR? correct answers -charecteristics of hearing loss -effects of hearing loss on person -competency in AR (various forms/...

SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY PRAXIS EXAM WITH QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS...