CETP ACTUAL EXAMINATION TEST 2026
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
◉ 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?
Select all that apply.
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.
D.It will likely lead Fela to adopt SAE as her primary dialect. Answer:
A, B, C
◉ This investigation was motivated by observations that when
persons with dysarthria increase loudness, their speech improves.
,Some studies have indicated that this improvement may be related
to an increase of prosodic variation. Studies have reported an
increase of fundamental frequency (F0) variation with increased
loudness, but there has been no examination of the relation of
loudness manipulation to specific prosodic variables that are known
to aid a listener in parsing out meaningful information. This study
examined the relation of vocal loudness production to selected
acoustic variables known to inform listeners of phrase and sentence
boundaries: specifically, F0 declination and final-word lengthening.
Ten young, healthy women were audio-recorded while they read
aloud a paragraph at what each considered normal loudness, twice-
normal loudness, and half-normal loudness. Results showed that
there was a statistically Answer: C. Vocal loudness
◉ A client exhibits weakness, atrophy, and fasciculation's 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?
A. Brain stem
B. Cerebellum
C. Left cerebral cortex
D. Right cerebral cortex Answer: A. Brain stem
- Weakness, atrophy, fasciculation's, and the other described
symptoms are all consistent with lower motor neurone locus and
,suspected cranial nerve abnormalities, which emerge directly from
the brainstem.
◉ Hearing loss in infants who are born with a cleft palate is usually
related to which of the following?
A. The infant's ability to create positive pressure in the oral cavity
B. Malformation of the middle-ear ossicles associated with
malformation of the palate
C. Eustachian tube dysfunction
D. Cochlear dysfunction Answer: C. Eustachian tube dysfunction
- Eustachian tube dysfunction, a major factor contributing to middle-
ear disease and conductive hearing loss, is nearly universal in
infants with cleft palate
◉ Which of the following is the most important acoustic cue that
distinguishes between an unreleased final /p/ and an unreleased
final /b/, as in cap versus cab?
A. Locus frequency of burst
B. Voice onset time
C. Vocal fundamental frequency
D. Duration of the preceding vowel Answer: D. Duration of the
preceding vowel
, - vowel duration influences a listener's perception of voicing
- vowels that precede unreleased voiced stop consonants are as
much as 1.5x as long as vowels that precede voiceless stops
◉ Language intervention for a child at the one-word stage should be
most strongly influenced by a consideration of the child's
A. motor skills
B. cognitive skills
C. syntactic skills
D. articulation skills Answer: B. cognitive skills
- the cognitive skills at the one-word stage will most strongly
influence the child's speech-language responses
◉ A single exposure of several hours duration to continuous music
with an overall level of 100 dB SPL will most likely produce
A.tinnitus and a temporary threshold shift in high frequencies
B.tinnitus and a distortion of speech perception
C.a temporary threshold shift in the low frequencies
D.a permanent threshold shift Answer: A. tinnitus and a temporary
threshold shift in high frequencies
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
◉ 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?
Select all that apply.
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.
D.It will likely lead Fela to adopt SAE as her primary dialect. Answer:
A, B, C
◉ This investigation was motivated by observations that when
persons with dysarthria increase loudness, their speech improves.
,Some studies have indicated that this improvement may be related
to an increase of prosodic variation. Studies have reported an
increase of fundamental frequency (F0) variation with increased
loudness, but there has been no examination of the relation of
loudness manipulation to specific prosodic variables that are known
to aid a listener in parsing out meaningful information. This study
examined the relation of vocal loudness production to selected
acoustic variables known to inform listeners of phrase and sentence
boundaries: specifically, F0 declination and final-word lengthening.
Ten young, healthy women were audio-recorded while they read
aloud a paragraph at what each considered normal loudness, twice-
normal loudness, and half-normal loudness. Results showed that
there was a statistically Answer: C. Vocal loudness
◉ A client exhibits weakness, atrophy, and fasciculation's 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?
A. Brain stem
B. Cerebellum
C. Left cerebral cortex
D. Right cerebral cortex Answer: A. Brain stem
- Weakness, atrophy, fasciculation's, and the other described
symptoms are all consistent with lower motor neurone locus and
,suspected cranial nerve abnormalities, which emerge directly from
the brainstem.
◉ Hearing loss in infants who are born with a cleft palate is usually
related to which of the following?
A. The infant's ability to create positive pressure in the oral cavity
B. Malformation of the middle-ear ossicles associated with
malformation of the palate
C. Eustachian tube dysfunction
D. Cochlear dysfunction Answer: C. Eustachian tube dysfunction
- Eustachian tube dysfunction, a major factor contributing to middle-
ear disease and conductive hearing loss, is nearly universal in
infants with cleft palate
◉ Which of the following is the most important acoustic cue that
distinguishes between an unreleased final /p/ and an unreleased
final /b/, as in cap versus cab?
A. Locus frequency of burst
B. Voice onset time
C. Vocal fundamental frequency
D. Duration of the preceding vowel Answer: D. Duration of the
preceding vowel
, - vowel duration influences a listener's perception of voicing
- vowels that precede unreleased voiced stop consonants are as
much as 1.5x as long as vowels that precede voiceless stops
◉ Language intervention for a child at the one-word stage should be
most strongly influenced by a consideration of the child's
A. motor skills
B. cognitive skills
C. syntactic skills
D. articulation skills Answer: B. cognitive skills
- the cognitive skills at the one-word stage will most strongly
influence the child's speech-language responses
◉ A single exposure of several hours duration to continuous music
with an overall level of 100 dB SPL will most likely produce
A.tinnitus and a temporary threshold shift in high frequencies
B.tinnitus and a distortion of speech perception
C.a temporary threshold shift in the low frequencies
D.a permanent threshold shift Answer: A. tinnitus and a temporary
threshold shift in high frequencies
