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Which of the following should be the primary focus of early language intervention for at-risk infants?
✔Correct Answer-Training primary caregivers to facilitate language learning
Primary motor innervation to the larynx and velum is provided by which cranial nerve? ✔Correct
Answer-CN 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? ✔Correct Answer-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.
Federal laws regarding freedom of access to information stipulate that client records kept or written
by health care professionals can be ✔Correct Answer-reviewed only by the clients themselves
unless the client provides written permission to share with others
To justify providing individual treatment for a 2½ year old with apraxia of speech, which of the
following would be LEAST important for the SLP to include in the evaluation report? ✔Correct
Answer-A description of the language development of the child's older siblings
The speech reception threshold (SRT) is a basic component of an evaluation of hearing function.
Which of the following statements about the SRT is most accurate? ✔Correct Answer-It is
measured in decibels and corresponds to the intensity level at which spondaic words can be
recognized approximately 50% of the time.
A clinician who employs active listening is doing which of the following? ✔Correct Answer-
Responding to both the content and the affect of the client's remarks
A 55-year-old woman, recently hospitalized for probable cerebrovascular accident (CVA), is referred
for evaluation of stuttering speech. The initial conversation with the client indicates that speech is
characterized by frequent initial-phoneme repetitions and prolongations as well as associated mildly
effortful eye blinking. Which of the following pieces of information is crucial to accurate speech
diagnosis and decisions regarding management of the speech problem? ✔Correct Answer-
Whether the dysfluencies began before or after the suspected CVA
Which of the following is the best action to take initially with a client who presents with poor oral
control of liquids and solids, coughing and choking while eating and drinking, and a history of
hospitalizations associated with pneumonia? ✔Correct Answer-Obtaining a modified barium-
swallow study to determine appropriate interventions
A number of research reports have described poor auditory memory in children with language
impairments. Which of the following can most appropriately be concluded from these studies?
, ✔Correct Answer-Poor auditory memory could be a reflection or a cause of a language impairment
or could be related to some other factor, and further research is needed to determine which is the
case.
Ms. Brown, a 70-year-old retired female, was admitted to the hospital following a CVA. The SLP
conducted a comprehensive evaluation that revealed the presence of left-side neglect, anosognosia
(denial of impairment), and visuospatial problems, including prosopagnosia (difficulty recognizing
familiar faces). Although her auditory comprehension and repetition skills were good, she
experienced difficulty with topic maintenance and turn taking. Based on the clinical features
described, Ms. Brown's diagnostic classification would most likely be ✔Correct Answer-Cognitive-
communicative disorder consistent with right hemisphere damage
A client exhibits weakness, atrophy, and fasciculations 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? ✔Correct Answer-Brain
stem
Which of the following constitutes the major component of an audiologic rehabilitation program for
infants with a moderate sensorineural hearing loss? ✔Correct Answer-Parent-mediated auditory
stimulation
A child exhibits the following production errors.
w/r
θ/s
t/ʃ
t/tʃ
z/dʒ
t/k
d/g
If a target sound for initial intervention is to be selected on the basis of established developmental
norms, then that sound will be ✔Correct Answer-/k/
A public-school-based speech-language pathologist is employed in a state that sets the maximum
caseload at 65. However, the clinician's caseload is currently at 64 with a waiting list of 10 additional
students. The school principal insists that the speech-language pathologist enroll the 10 students
immediately, because the district cannot locate another clinician to assist with the caseload. Which
of the following is the most appropriate way for the speech-language pathologist to address the
situation? ✔Correct Answer-Enroll 1 of the 10 students and provide the principal with a written
statement of caseload needs, mentioning the amount, type, and frequency of treatment
Fiber-optic instrumentation is appropriate for evaluation of which of the following types of
disorders? ✔Correct Answer-Phonation
Which of the following views make up a standard videofluoroscopic swallow study? ✔Correct
Answer-Lateral/Anterior-posterior
Hearing loss in infants who are born with a cleft palate is usually related to which of the following?
✔Correct Answer-Eustachian tube dysfunction