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A client exhibits weakness, atrophy, and fasciculation's of the right side of the tongue an
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d lower face. The client also has right vocal-
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fold weakness and nasal regurgitation of fluid when swallowing. These problems are th
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e result of damage towhich part of the nervous system?
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A. Brain stem t
B. Cerebellum
C. Left cerebral cortex t t
D. Right cerebral cortex t t
A. Brain stem
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- Weakness, atrophy, fasciculation's, and the other described symptoms are allcon
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sistent with lower motor neurone locus and suspected cranial nerve abnormalities
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, which emerge directly from the brainstem.
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Hearing loss in infants who are born with a cleft palate is usually related to whichof the
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following?
A. The infant's ability to create positive pressure in the oral cavity
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B. Malformation of the middle- t t t
ear ossicles associated with malformation of thepalate
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,C. Eustachian tube dysfunction t t
D. Cochlear dysfunction t
C. Eustachian tube dysfunction
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- Eustachian tube dysfunction, a major factor contributing to middle-t t t t t t t t
ear diseaseand conductive hearing loss, is nearly universal in infants with cleft palat
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e
Primary motor innveration to the larynx and velum is provided by which cranialnerve
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?
Cranial nerve X (Vagus) t t t
Fela is a third- t t t
grade student in a public school. She is a speaker of African American Vernacular Engli
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sh (AAVE) who has difficulty with the Standard American English (SAE) dialect used i
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n her classroom. Her teacher believes that Fela's language skills are affecting her acade
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mic performance and has referred herto the school's speech-
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language pathologist. Which of the following is an appropriate rationale for providing l
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anguage intervention for Fela? t t t
Select all that apply. t t t
A. It will likely foster better communication with Fela's linguistically and culturallydiv
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erse peers. t
B. It will likely improve Fela's code-
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switching ability with her teacher and otheradult speakers of SAE.
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C. It may expand Fela's later academic and vocational opportunities.
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D. It will likely lead Fela to adopt SAE as her primary dialect.
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,A, B, C t t
This investigation was motivated by observations that when persons with dysarthria in
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crease loudness, their speech improves. Some studies have indicated that this improve
t t t t t t t t t t t
ment may be related to an increase of prosodic variation. Studieshave reported an incre
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ase of fundamental frequency (F0) variation with increasedloudness, but there has bee
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n no examination of the relation of loudness manipulation to specific prosodic variable
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s that are known to aid a listener in parsing out meaningful information. This study exa
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mined the relation of vocal loudness production to selected acoustic variables known t
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o inform listeners of phrase and sentence boundaries: specifically, F0 declination and f
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inal-word lengthening. Ten young, healthy women were audio-
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recorded while they read aloud a paragraph at what each considered normal loudness, t
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wice-normal loudness, and half- t t t
normal loudness. Results showed that there was a statistically
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C. Vocal loudness
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unreleased final /p/ and an unreleased final /b/, as in cap versus cab?
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A. Locus frequency of burst t t t
B. Voice onset time t t
C. Vocal fundamental frequency t t
, D. Duration of the preceding vowel t t t t
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- vowel duration influences a listener's perception of voicing
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- vowels that precede unreleased voiced stop consonants are as much as 1.5x aslong
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as vowels that precede voiceless stops
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Language intervention for a child at the one- t t t t t t t
word stage should be most stronglyinfluenced by a consideration of the child's
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A. motor skills t
B. cognitive skills t
C. syntactic skills t
D. articulation skills t
B. cognitive skills
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- the cognitive skills at the one-
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word stage will most strongly influence the child'sspeech-language responses
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A single exposure of several hours duration to continuous music with an overalllevel of
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100 dB SPL will most likely produce
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A. tinnitus and a temporary threshold shift in high frequencies
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