SLPA Test #1 questions with complete
solutions A+ rated
speech language pathologist - correct answer ✔✔Evaluates and treats patients with speech,
language, cognitive communication and swallowing disorders in individuals from infants to the
elderly.
audiologist - correct answer ✔✔Provide services related to prevention, evaluation,
identification, and rehab of hearing and balance disorders.
ASHA - correct answer ✔✔American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Primary Places of Employment for SLP's and AUD's - correct answer ✔✔schools, hospitals,
health care facilities, non-profit agencies
educational requirements for SLP's - correct answer ✔✔4 years of undergrad
masters degree (2 years)
educational requirements for AUD's - correct answer ✔✔4 years of undergrad
doctorate (4 years)
language - correct answer ✔✔A socially shared code where ideas about the world are
represented through a conventionally shared system of arbitrary signals for communications.
-rule governed
-used intentionally between 2 people
-can be verbal and non-verbal
, speech - correct answer ✔✔The dynamic near-muscular process of producing speech sounds in
a verbal means of transmission.
-a motor speech process
-expression of language/ thoughts through speech sounds
communication - correct answer ✔✔Process of exchanging information and ideas between a
speaker and a listener, it involves encoding, decoding, and transmitting the code.
-active process (involves more than one person)
-can occur without language and speech
morphology - correct answer ✔✔WORDS
internal structure of words and the formation of words
phonology - correct answer ✔✔SOUNDS
the study of sounds, study of speech words and sound patterns, phonemes
semantics - correct answer ✔✔DEFINITION
deals with the meaning of words
syntax - correct answer ✔✔SENTENCES/IDEAS
how words go together to form sentences and how the words affect each other
pragmatics - correct answer ✔✔CONTEXT
involves the purpose and reason for communication
solutions A+ rated
speech language pathologist - correct answer ✔✔Evaluates and treats patients with speech,
language, cognitive communication and swallowing disorders in individuals from infants to the
elderly.
audiologist - correct answer ✔✔Provide services related to prevention, evaluation,
identification, and rehab of hearing and balance disorders.
ASHA - correct answer ✔✔American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Primary Places of Employment for SLP's and AUD's - correct answer ✔✔schools, hospitals,
health care facilities, non-profit agencies
educational requirements for SLP's - correct answer ✔✔4 years of undergrad
masters degree (2 years)
educational requirements for AUD's - correct answer ✔✔4 years of undergrad
doctorate (4 years)
language - correct answer ✔✔A socially shared code where ideas about the world are
represented through a conventionally shared system of arbitrary signals for communications.
-rule governed
-used intentionally between 2 people
-can be verbal and non-verbal
, speech - correct answer ✔✔The dynamic near-muscular process of producing speech sounds in
a verbal means of transmission.
-a motor speech process
-expression of language/ thoughts through speech sounds
communication - correct answer ✔✔Process of exchanging information and ideas between a
speaker and a listener, it involves encoding, decoding, and transmitting the code.
-active process (involves more than one person)
-can occur without language and speech
morphology - correct answer ✔✔WORDS
internal structure of words and the formation of words
phonology - correct answer ✔✔SOUNDS
the study of sounds, study of speech words and sound patterns, phonemes
semantics - correct answer ✔✔DEFINITION
deals with the meaning of words
syntax - correct answer ✔✔SENTENCES/IDEAS
how words go together to form sentences and how the words affect each other
pragmatics - correct answer ✔✔CONTEXT
involves the purpose and reason for communication
