North Carolina SLP-Assistant Exam (2026) Exam Questions & Answers |
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What are the 5 Objectives of Intervention? - (ANSWER)1. Client should show improvement not just in a
clinical setting; Progress should be generalized to real-world environments.
2. Should be automatic
3. Should be self-monitored
4. Should make optimum progress in minimum amount of time
5. Intervention should be sensitive to personal and cultural characteristics.
Treatment Protocol - (ANSWER)Written guideline that specifies therapy frequency, duration, and type of
service. Also has goals, skilled interventions, antecedents, cues/prompts, and consequences used during
the session.
As an SLPA, why is it important to be culturally competent? - (ANSWER)As an SLPA, you are able to treat
the client to the best of your ability, while being sensitive to any cultural differences that you may have
to adapt to in order to treat the client properly.
Modeling - (ANSWER)showing the child exactly what to do
Verbal model - (ANSWER)tell child exactly what to do
tactile model - (ANSWER)use touch to help the child
verbal prompt - (ANSWER)starting to say what child is supposed to say
verbal cue - (ANSWER)telling the child what to do. Ex., "find the ball"
visual cue - (ANSWER)using visual supports to cue. Ex., pictures, mirror
gestural cue - (ANSWER)use gestures to help the child. Ex., pointing
,North Carolina SLP-Assistant Exam (2026) Exam Questions & Answers |
Latest Already Graded A+ UPDATE 2025|2026!! STUDY GUIDE EXAM
Apraxia - (ANSWER)Acquired oral motor speech disorder affecting an individual's ability to translate
conscious speech pairs into motor plans, which results in limited difficult speech ability.
SOAP Notes Acronym: - (ANSWER)subjective- concerns of family members or individual
objective- specific clinical findings, test results, summary of data collected during session
assessment- compares clients performance across sessions
plan- states course of action to be followed
baseline data - (ANSWER)data before intervention starts
extension vs. expansion - (ANSWER)extension- add more info to childs utterances
expansion- keep childs word order the same, expand to make utterances more grammatically correct
non-linguistic cues - (ANSWER)gestures, body language, facial expressions, physical distance
compensatory strategies for disfluent speech - (ANSWER)1.Sliding or pullouts
2. Relaxing the stutter
3. Catching the stutter
4. Intentional stuttering
5. Easy stuttering/fluent stuttering
6. Bouncing
7. Cancellation
8. Preparatory set
9. Light contact
10. Slower speech rates
, North Carolina SLP-Assistant Exam (2026) Exam Questions & Answers |
Latest Already Graded A+ UPDATE 2025|2026!! STUDY GUIDE EXAM
11. Relaxed breath patterns
12. Slow/stretched speech
13. Easy onset
14. Pausing and chunking
Articulation disorder - (ANSWER)difficulty in production of individual speech sounds
language disorder - (ANSWER)difficulty in comprehension, speaking, writing
fluency disorder - (ANSWER)bumpy speech characterized by non-smooth and interrupted speech
When you return a patient/client to his hospital room/classroom, a waiting family member begins to
question you about details of therapy, you should... - (ANSWER)refer family member to the supervising
SLP
CVC - (ANSWER)consonant vowel consonant (closed)
semantics - (ANSWER)Meaning of words and sentences
when client reaches stated level of performance of goal... - (ANSWER)communicate with supervising SLP
when client responds correctly on 15% of the trails... - (ANSWER)communicate with supervising SLP
when client responds negatively to training materials... - (ANSWER)communicate with supervising SLP
Who is responsible for keeping the Board of Examiners appraised of changes in registration information?
- (ANSWER)supervising SLP
Latest Already Graded A+ UPDATE 2025|2026!! STUDY GUIDE EXAM
What are the 5 Objectives of Intervention? - (ANSWER)1. Client should show improvement not just in a
clinical setting; Progress should be generalized to real-world environments.
2. Should be automatic
3. Should be self-monitored
4. Should make optimum progress in minimum amount of time
5. Intervention should be sensitive to personal and cultural characteristics.
Treatment Protocol - (ANSWER)Written guideline that specifies therapy frequency, duration, and type of
service. Also has goals, skilled interventions, antecedents, cues/prompts, and consequences used during
the session.
As an SLPA, why is it important to be culturally competent? - (ANSWER)As an SLPA, you are able to treat
the client to the best of your ability, while being sensitive to any cultural differences that you may have
to adapt to in order to treat the client properly.
Modeling - (ANSWER)showing the child exactly what to do
Verbal model - (ANSWER)tell child exactly what to do
tactile model - (ANSWER)use touch to help the child
verbal prompt - (ANSWER)starting to say what child is supposed to say
verbal cue - (ANSWER)telling the child what to do. Ex., "find the ball"
visual cue - (ANSWER)using visual supports to cue. Ex., pictures, mirror
gestural cue - (ANSWER)use gestures to help the child. Ex., pointing
,North Carolina SLP-Assistant Exam (2026) Exam Questions & Answers |
Latest Already Graded A+ UPDATE 2025|2026!! STUDY GUIDE EXAM
Apraxia - (ANSWER)Acquired oral motor speech disorder affecting an individual's ability to translate
conscious speech pairs into motor plans, which results in limited difficult speech ability.
SOAP Notes Acronym: - (ANSWER)subjective- concerns of family members or individual
objective- specific clinical findings, test results, summary of data collected during session
assessment- compares clients performance across sessions
plan- states course of action to be followed
baseline data - (ANSWER)data before intervention starts
extension vs. expansion - (ANSWER)extension- add more info to childs utterances
expansion- keep childs word order the same, expand to make utterances more grammatically correct
non-linguistic cues - (ANSWER)gestures, body language, facial expressions, physical distance
compensatory strategies for disfluent speech - (ANSWER)1.Sliding or pullouts
2. Relaxing the stutter
3. Catching the stutter
4. Intentional stuttering
5. Easy stuttering/fluent stuttering
6. Bouncing
7. Cancellation
8. Preparatory set
9. Light contact
10. Slower speech rates
, North Carolina SLP-Assistant Exam (2026) Exam Questions & Answers |
Latest Already Graded A+ UPDATE 2025|2026!! STUDY GUIDE EXAM
11. Relaxed breath patterns
12. Slow/stretched speech
13. Easy onset
14. Pausing and chunking
Articulation disorder - (ANSWER)difficulty in production of individual speech sounds
language disorder - (ANSWER)difficulty in comprehension, speaking, writing
fluency disorder - (ANSWER)bumpy speech characterized by non-smooth and interrupted speech
When you return a patient/client to his hospital room/classroom, a waiting family member begins to
question you about details of therapy, you should... - (ANSWER)refer family member to the supervising
SLP
CVC - (ANSWER)consonant vowel consonant (closed)
semantics - (ANSWER)Meaning of words and sentences
when client reaches stated level of performance of goal... - (ANSWER)communicate with supervising SLP
when client responds correctly on 15% of the trails... - (ANSWER)communicate with supervising SLP
when client responds negatively to training materials... - (ANSWER)communicate with supervising SLP
Who is responsible for keeping the Board of Examiners appraised of changes in registration information?
- (ANSWER)supervising SLP
