SLP Praxis - Practice Questions and
Answers 2024\2025
A may or may not be a speech sound; the term refers generally to
any sounds that can be produced by the vocal tract - Correct answer-Phone
The influence of one phoneme upon another in production and perception wherein two
different articulators move simultaneously to produce two different speech sounds -
Correct answer-Coarticulation
are produced when the dorsum of the tongue contracts the velum.
Describing consonants this way is according to place - Correct answer-Linguavelrs;
Place
The fundamental frequency or first harmonic is known as - Correct answer-Lowest
frequency of a periodic wave
In speech sounds are modified due to the influence of adjacent sounds
- Correct answer-Assimilation
Consonants can be described according to - Correct answer-Place, voice, manner
are produced by lowering the velum keeping the VP port open - Correct
answer-Nasals
are movements of particles in a medium containing expansions and
contractions of molecules - Correct answer-Sound Waves
an electronic instrument that graphically records the changing intensity
levels of the frequency components in a complex sound wave - Correct answer-Sound
Spectrograph
A young child who says "up" when someone picks up a ball is using the relation of -
Correct answer-Locative action
What age does a child begin to use reduplicated babbling? - Correct answer-4-6 months
A child says "jump [on] bed". This is an example of what type of semantic relation? -
Correct answer-Action + Locative
First grammatical morpheme in Brown's 14? - Correct answer-Present Progressive -ing
, When do most children use "all gone" to express emerging negation? - Correct answer-
Between 1-2 years of age
At what age do children have an average MLU of 6.0 - 8.0? - Correct answer-5-6 years
Which language development theory states that language develops because people are
motivated to interact socially with others around them? - Correct answer-Social
Interactionism Theory
Proponents of the theory are mostly concerned with cognitive
functioning, not cognitive structures or concepts. - Correct answer-Information
processing
According to theory, language acquisition is made possible by cognition
and general intellectual processing - Correct answer-Cognitive theory
Skinner is associated with what theory? - Correct answer-Behavioralist or behavioral
According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development a 0-2 year old child is is the
period. - Correct answer-Sensorimotor
Hint: Young children are discovering their environment with there senses
The English language has how many speech sounds that are classified as consonants
or vowels? - Correct answer-46
When a child produces a posteriorly placed consonant instead of an anteriorly placed
consonant they are using what phonological process? - Correct answer-Backing
General factors related to SSD include: - Correct answer-Gender, IQ, birth order, sib
status, socioeconomic status, lang development & academic performance, Auditory
discrimination skills
"Hallmark" of childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) - Correct answer-Inconsistent errors
Children with mild hearing loss due to fluid/infections my exhibit the following - Correct
answer-Final consonant deletion, stridency, fronting
treatment activities include sound blending, rhyming, and alliteration -
Correct answer-Phonological awareness
An important structure adjacent to the brainstem that contains the hypothalamus and
thalamus is the - Correct answer-Diencephalon
The corpus striatum is composed of 3 nuclear masses which are the - Correct answer--
Globus pallidus
-Caudate nucleus
Answers 2024\2025
A may or may not be a speech sound; the term refers generally to
any sounds that can be produced by the vocal tract - Correct answer-Phone
The influence of one phoneme upon another in production and perception wherein two
different articulators move simultaneously to produce two different speech sounds -
Correct answer-Coarticulation
are produced when the dorsum of the tongue contracts the velum.
Describing consonants this way is according to place - Correct answer-Linguavelrs;
Place
The fundamental frequency or first harmonic is known as - Correct answer-Lowest
frequency of a periodic wave
In speech sounds are modified due to the influence of adjacent sounds
- Correct answer-Assimilation
Consonants can be described according to - Correct answer-Place, voice, manner
are produced by lowering the velum keeping the VP port open - Correct
answer-Nasals
are movements of particles in a medium containing expansions and
contractions of molecules - Correct answer-Sound Waves
an electronic instrument that graphically records the changing intensity
levels of the frequency components in a complex sound wave - Correct answer-Sound
Spectrograph
A young child who says "up" when someone picks up a ball is using the relation of -
Correct answer-Locative action
What age does a child begin to use reduplicated babbling? - Correct answer-4-6 months
A child says "jump [on] bed". This is an example of what type of semantic relation? -
Correct answer-Action + Locative
First grammatical morpheme in Brown's 14? - Correct answer-Present Progressive -ing
, When do most children use "all gone" to express emerging negation? - Correct answer-
Between 1-2 years of age
At what age do children have an average MLU of 6.0 - 8.0? - Correct answer-5-6 years
Which language development theory states that language develops because people are
motivated to interact socially with others around them? - Correct answer-Social
Interactionism Theory
Proponents of the theory are mostly concerned with cognitive
functioning, not cognitive structures or concepts. - Correct answer-Information
processing
According to theory, language acquisition is made possible by cognition
and general intellectual processing - Correct answer-Cognitive theory
Skinner is associated with what theory? - Correct answer-Behavioralist or behavioral
According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development a 0-2 year old child is is the
period. - Correct answer-Sensorimotor
Hint: Young children are discovering their environment with there senses
The English language has how many speech sounds that are classified as consonants
or vowels? - Correct answer-46
When a child produces a posteriorly placed consonant instead of an anteriorly placed
consonant they are using what phonological process? - Correct answer-Backing
General factors related to SSD include: - Correct answer-Gender, IQ, birth order, sib
status, socioeconomic status, lang development & academic performance, Auditory
discrimination skills
"Hallmark" of childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) - Correct answer-Inconsistent errors
Children with mild hearing loss due to fluid/infections my exhibit the following - Correct
answer-Final consonant deletion, stridency, fronting
treatment activities include sound blending, rhyming, and alliteration -
Correct answer-Phonological awareness
An important structure adjacent to the brainstem that contains the hypothalamus and
thalamus is the - Correct answer-Diencephalon
The corpus striatum is composed of 3 nuclear masses which are the - Correct answer--
Globus pallidus
-Caudate nucleus
