SLPA NC COMPREHENSIVE EXAM PREP
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
STUDY RESOURCE
●● 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
●● 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
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
STUDY RESOURCE
●● 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
●● 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
