ETS SLP Praxis (Form 1-3) Questions With Complete
Solutions
"Book read me.""Me TV see."
The utterances above, spoken by a 3-year-old monolingual
English-speaking child, indicate that the child most likely has a
problem with which of the following?
A. Semantic redundancy
B. Syntactic relationships
C. Morphological relationships
D. Pragmatics Correct Answers Correct Answer: B
Option (B) is correct. The utterances are not in the correct order,
which is characteristic of a syntactic error.
1. Answer the question below by clicking on the correct
response.
A clinician who employs active listening is doing which of the
following?
A. Responding to both the content and the affect of the client's
remarks
B. Listening very carefully and taking extensive notes
C. Conducting a clinician-directed interview
D. Directing the client to specific answers to questions Correct
Answers Correct Answer: A
Option (A) is correct. A clinician who employs active listening
responds to both the content (the denotative message) and the
affect (the emotional content) of a client's remarks.
1. Answer the question below by clicking on the correct
response.
,Federal laws regarding freedom of access to information
stipulate that client records kept or written by health care
professionals can be
A. reviewed only by other health-care professionals
B. reviewed only by the clients themselves unless the client
provides written permission to share with others
C. reviewed by anyone who submits a formal written request
D. released only by subpoena Correct Answers Correct
Answer: B
Option (B) is correct. Clients have the right to review their own
records.
1. Answer the question below by clicking on the correct
response.Top of Form
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.
Correct Answers Correct Answer: A,B,C
,Options (A), (B), and (C) are correct. The intervention will
foster better communication because Fela and her peers will
have a common dialect. Also, the intervention will provide Fela
with the ability to switch easily between dialects using SAE
structures. Furthermore, being able to switch codes will enable
Fela to participate in more educational and vocational
opportunities.
1. Answer the question below by clicking on the correct
response.Top of Form
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?
A. It is measured in decibels and corresponds to the intensity
level at which spondaic words can be recognized approximately
50% of the time.
B. It makes use of test materials that are limited to monosyllabic
words.
C. It provides information on how well speech is understood at
conversational levels.
D. It is useful in validating acoustic intermittence measures.
Correct Answers Correct Answer: A
Option (A) is correct. It is an accurate definition of the speech
reception threshold.
1. Answer the question below by clicking on the correct
response.Top of Form
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?
A. A description of the child's typical interaction with peers
, B. Relevant prognostic data
C. Information about apraxia of speech
D. A description of the language development of the child's
older siblings Correct Answers Correct Answer: D
Option (D) is correct. A description of the child's older siblings'
language development does not provide the objective,
documented evidence required to justify provision of treatment
for a child of an age at which some unintelligibility would be
typical.
A 12-year-old native speaker of Spanish who has been studying
English as a second language for three years is most likely to do
which of the following when speaking English in casual
conversation with teachers at school?
A. Use the auxiliary "have" in place of "be" in progressive
tenses
B. Use incorrect word order within prepositional phrases
C. Use conjunctions in place of prepositions
D. Use multiple negation improperly Correct Answers Correct
Answer: D
Option (D) is correct. Multiple negation is a grammatical feature
of Spanish but not of Standard English. The contrast between
the two languages can cause multiple negation to persist as a
speaker attempts to learn Standard English.
A 12-year-old phonology patient responds very well to
continuous verbal reinforcement. The SLPS L P wishes to
increase the task level for sibilant production to conversational
speech, but is concerned that the accuracy of the patient's
productions will diminish without continuous reinforcement.
Solutions
"Book read me.""Me TV see."
The utterances above, spoken by a 3-year-old monolingual
English-speaking child, indicate that the child most likely has a
problem with which of the following?
A. Semantic redundancy
B. Syntactic relationships
C. Morphological relationships
D. Pragmatics Correct Answers Correct Answer: B
Option (B) is correct. The utterances are not in the correct order,
which is characteristic of a syntactic error.
1. Answer the question below by clicking on the correct
response.
A clinician who employs active listening is doing which of the
following?
A. Responding to both the content and the affect of the client's
remarks
B. Listening very carefully and taking extensive notes
C. Conducting a clinician-directed interview
D. Directing the client to specific answers to questions Correct
Answers Correct Answer: A
Option (A) is correct. A clinician who employs active listening
responds to both the content (the denotative message) and the
affect (the emotional content) of a client's remarks.
1. Answer the question below by clicking on the correct
response.
,Federal laws regarding freedom of access to information
stipulate that client records kept or written by health care
professionals can be
A. reviewed only by other health-care professionals
B. reviewed only by the clients themselves unless the client
provides written permission to share with others
C. reviewed by anyone who submits a formal written request
D. released only by subpoena Correct Answers Correct
Answer: B
Option (B) is correct. Clients have the right to review their own
records.
1. Answer the question below by clicking on the correct
response.Top of Form
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.
Correct Answers Correct Answer: A,B,C
,Options (A), (B), and (C) are correct. The intervention will
foster better communication because Fela and her peers will
have a common dialect. Also, the intervention will provide Fela
with the ability to switch easily between dialects using SAE
structures. Furthermore, being able to switch codes will enable
Fela to participate in more educational and vocational
opportunities.
1. Answer the question below by clicking on the correct
response.Top of Form
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?
A. It is measured in decibels and corresponds to the intensity
level at which spondaic words can be recognized approximately
50% of the time.
B. It makes use of test materials that are limited to monosyllabic
words.
C. It provides information on how well speech is understood at
conversational levels.
D. It is useful in validating acoustic intermittence measures.
Correct Answers Correct Answer: A
Option (A) is correct. It is an accurate definition of the speech
reception threshold.
1. Answer the question below by clicking on the correct
response.Top of Form
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?
A. A description of the child's typical interaction with peers
, B. Relevant prognostic data
C. Information about apraxia of speech
D. A description of the language development of the child's
older siblings Correct Answers Correct Answer: D
Option (D) is correct. A description of the child's older siblings'
language development does not provide the objective,
documented evidence required to justify provision of treatment
for a child of an age at which some unintelligibility would be
typical.
A 12-year-old native speaker of Spanish who has been studying
English as a second language for three years is most likely to do
which of the following when speaking English in casual
conversation with teachers at school?
A. Use the auxiliary "have" in place of "be" in progressive
tenses
B. Use incorrect word order within prepositional phrases
C. Use conjunctions in place of prepositions
D. Use multiple negation improperly Correct Answers Correct
Answer: D
Option (D) is correct. Multiple negation is a grammatical feature
of Spanish but not of Standard English. The contrast between
the two languages can cause multiple negation to persist as a
speaker attempts to learn Standard English.
A 12-year-old phonology patient responds very well to
continuous verbal reinforcement. The SLPS L P wishes to
increase the task level for sibilant production to conversational
speech, but is concerned that the accuracy of the patient's
productions will diminish without continuous reinforcement.
