SSD PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Tommy's speech can be difficult to understand. He is 4;4 years and his preschool
teacher suspects that he has a speech sound disorder. This means that Tommy has
a. a genetic syndrome
b. difficulty perceiving, phonologically representing, and/or articulating speech,
impacting his speech intelligibility and acceptability
c. a structural problem with his ears or palate requiring further investigation
d. a structural problem with his ears or palate requiring further investigation - Answer -
B. difficulty perceiving, phonologically representing, and/or articulating speech,
impacting his speech intelligibility and acceptability
The subdivision of language dealing with the meaning of words, phrases, and
sentences is __________. - Answer -semantics
Prevalence reports about speech sound disorders vary because of differences in the
a. age range of the children studied, definitions of speech sound disorders, data
collection methods, procedures for sampling children, and cut-points used on a
standardized test
b. inclusion or exclusion of incidence data
c. qualifications of the researchers determining prevalence
d. statistical procedures for calculating prevalence - Answer -a. age range of the
children studied, definitions of speech sound disorders, data collection methods,
procedures for sampling children, and cut-points used on a standardized test
As part of the Cleveland Family Study of Speech and Language Disorders, Lewis et al.
(2015) reported that if a speech sound disorder persists into adolescence, the speech
errors can include
a. Errors of syllable omission and the insertion of glottal stops
b. atypical production of velars
c. Polysyllable errors; distortions of /s, z, r, l/; substitution errors; phonological
processes (e.g., cluster reduction); and possible abnormal voice, prosody, and fluency
d. Polysyllable errors only, as all other consonants, vowels, and stress patterns have
been mastered - Answer -c. Polysyllable errors; distortions of /s, z, r, l/; substitution
errors; phonological processes (e.g., cluster reduction); and possible abnormal voice,
prosody, and fluency
Tommy's speech can be difficult to understand. He is 4;4 years and his preschool
teacher suspects that he has a speech sound disorder. This means that Tommy has
a. a genetic syndrome
b. difficulty perceiving, phonologically representing, and/or articulating speech,
impacting his speech intelligibility and acceptability
c. a structural problem with his ears or palate requiring further investigation
d. a structural problem with his ears or palate requiring further investigation - Answer -
B. difficulty perceiving, phonologically representing, and/or articulating speech,
impacting his speech intelligibility and acceptability
The subdivision of language dealing with the meaning of words, phrases, and
sentences is __________. - Answer -semantics
Prevalence reports about speech sound disorders vary because of differences in the
a. age range of the children studied, definitions of speech sound disorders, data
collection methods, procedures for sampling children, and cut-points used on a
standardized test
b. inclusion or exclusion of incidence data
c. qualifications of the researchers determining prevalence
d. statistical procedures for calculating prevalence - Answer -a. age range of the
children studied, definitions of speech sound disorders, data collection methods,
procedures for sampling children, and cut-points used on a standardized test
As part of the Cleveland Family Study of Speech and Language Disorders, Lewis et al.
(2015) reported that if a speech sound disorder persists into adolescence, the speech
errors can include
a. Errors of syllable omission and the insertion of glottal stops
b. atypical production of velars
c. Polysyllable errors; distortions of /s, z, r, l/; substitution errors; phonological
processes (e.g., cluster reduction); and possible abnormal voice, prosody, and fluency
d. Polysyllable errors only, as all other consonants, vowels, and stress patterns have
been mastered - Answer -c. Polysyllable errors; distortions of /s, z, r, l/; substitution
errors; phonological processes (e.g., cluster reduction); and possible abnormal voice,
prosody, and fluency
