SLP PRAXIS 2024 PRACTICE TEST 1 WITH WELL EXPLAINED SOLUTIONS -ALREADY
GRADED A+
Which of the following is a distinguishing characteristic of articulation therapy for a 2-year-
old patient with a repaired cleft palate and compensatory errors?
A. Cycling through multiple speech goals in a given session
B. Having a play-based learning approach to address goals
C. Focusing on carryover or speech productions
D. Addressing speech targets with high frequency and intensity
B. Having a play-based learning approach to address goals
Explanation: Based on the age or the child, the only appropriate treatment listed is a play-
based approach. All other treatments listed are inappropriate for the age of the child.
Early intentional communication typically emerges in the months leading up to a child's
first birthday.
Which of the following communicative functions typically emerges first in this period?
A. Requesting
B. Commenting
C. Protesting
D. Greeting
C. Protesting
Explanation: Early intentional communication develops around 8 to 10 months of age. and
the first function that emerges is protesting.
,An SLP plans to give Cody, an 8-year-old boy with autism spectrum disorder, tangible
reinforcement in conjunction with the use of manual signs during an object labeling task.
At first, reinforcement will be presented every time Cody produces a sign correctly. After
several sessions, however, reinforcement will be given after every third instance of correct
labeling. Which of the following choices best describes the SLP's reinforcement schedule?
A. Fixed-ratio schedule followed by variable-ratio schedule
B. Fixed-ratio schedule followed by continuous schedule
C. Continuous-ratio schedule followed by fixed-interval schedule
D. Continuous-ratio schedule followed by fixed-ratio schedule
D. Continuous-ratio schedule followed by fixed-ratio schedule
Explanation: At first the desired behavior is reinforced ever time it occurs followed by a
fixed ratio of every third time
Place the examples of assessment tasks with the type of attention that is primarily being
evaluated:
A. Listening to a list of spoken words for a target word
B. Focusing on hearing a person speaking while the tv is on
C. Mentally solving a complex math problem
D. Sorting playing cards by color, then by number, and then by color again.
1. Alternating Attention
2. Sustained Attention
3. Selective Attention
4. Working Memory
1. D
,2. B
3. A
4. C
An SLP assesses a 3-year-old child with poor intelligibility. The SLP attempts to determine
whether the child has a severe phonological disorder or childhood apraxia of speech (CAS).
Which TWO of the following characteristics are primarily indicative of CAS?
A. Presenting with decreased strength and muscle coordination
B. Displaying inconsistencies in articulation performance
C. Making the same errors independent of length of speech utterance
D. Speaking with a disrupted rate, rhythm, and stress of speech
B. Displaying inconsistencies in articulation performance & D. Speaking with a disrupted
rate, rhythm, and stress of speech
Explanation: Children with CAS struggle to make consistent productions of speech sounds.
Children with CAS speak with a rate, rhythm, and stress of speech that can be disrupted,
and sometimes they can appear to be groping for placement.
A 6-year-old child has difficulty producing both regular and irregular plural forms.
Intervention for this problem would best target language at the level of
A. syntax
B. phonology
C. morphology
D. semantics
C. morphology
Explanation: Regular and irregular plural forms are morphological markers
, A patient is referred to speech therapy after a total laryngectomy. The SLP teaches the
patient to speak by taking air in through the mouth, trapping it in the throat, and then
releasing it. Which of the following treatments is the SLP primarily implementing with the
patient?
A. Tracheoesophageal puncture
B. Esophageal speech
C. Neck electrolarynx
D. Intraoral artificial larynx
B. Esophageal speech
Explanation: Esophageal speech focuses on using the esophagus to provide speech. and
no devices are used
A 72-year-old male presents to a (SNF) following a complicated hospital stay. The patient is
morbidly obese and has a history of COPD, depression, hypertension, diabetes, Bell's
palsy, encephalopathy. and congestive heart failure. During
his stay he was not intubated but became very weak.
He was placed on an NDD Level 2 diet with nectar-thick liquids due to aspiration of thin
liquids and poor oral control of reg. solids. The SLP noticed that the patient was disoriented
and confused, hallucinating, attempting to stand, and presented with aphonia.
An ENT consult stated there was no structural reason for the aphonia. Suspecting that the
aphonia was of a psychogenic etiology. the SLP made referral to the resident psychiatrist
and began
treatment for both the aphonia and for dysphagia.
A primary factor causing the patients psychogenic aphonia is the presence of:
A. Depression
B. Bells Palsy
GRADED A+
Which of the following is a distinguishing characteristic of articulation therapy for a 2-year-
old patient with a repaired cleft palate and compensatory errors?
A. Cycling through multiple speech goals in a given session
B. Having a play-based learning approach to address goals
C. Focusing on carryover or speech productions
D. Addressing speech targets with high frequency and intensity
B. Having a play-based learning approach to address goals
Explanation: Based on the age or the child, the only appropriate treatment listed is a play-
based approach. All other treatments listed are inappropriate for the age of the child.
Early intentional communication typically emerges in the months leading up to a child's
first birthday.
Which of the following communicative functions typically emerges first in this period?
A. Requesting
B. Commenting
C. Protesting
D. Greeting
C. Protesting
Explanation: Early intentional communication develops around 8 to 10 months of age. and
the first function that emerges is protesting.
,An SLP plans to give Cody, an 8-year-old boy with autism spectrum disorder, tangible
reinforcement in conjunction with the use of manual signs during an object labeling task.
At first, reinforcement will be presented every time Cody produces a sign correctly. After
several sessions, however, reinforcement will be given after every third instance of correct
labeling. Which of the following choices best describes the SLP's reinforcement schedule?
A. Fixed-ratio schedule followed by variable-ratio schedule
B. Fixed-ratio schedule followed by continuous schedule
C. Continuous-ratio schedule followed by fixed-interval schedule
D. Continuous-ratio schedule followed by fixed-ratio schedule
D. Continuous-ratio schedule followed by fixed-ratio schedule
Explanation: At first the desired behavior is reinforced ever time it occurs followed by a
fixed ratio of every third time
Place the examples of assessment tasks with the type of attention that is primarily being
evaluated:
A. Listening to a list of spoken words for a target word
B. Focusing on hearing a person speaking while the tv is on
C. Mentally solving a complex math problem
D. Sorting playing cards by color, then by number, and then by color again.
1. Alternating Attention
2. Sustained Attention
3. Selective Attention
4. Working Memory
1. D
,2. B
3. A
4. C
An SLP assesses a 3-year-old child with poor intelligibility. The SLP attempts to determine
whether the child has a severe phonological disorder or childhood apraxia of speech (CAS).
Which TWO of the following characteristics are primarily indicative of CAS?
A. Presenting with decreased strength and muscle coordination
B. Displaying inconsistencies in articulation performance
C. Making the same errors independent of length of speech utterance
D. Speaking with a disrupted rate, rhythm, and stress of speech
B. Displaying inconsistencies in articulation performance & D. Speaking with a disrupted
rate, rhythm, and stress of speech
Explanation: Children with CAS struggle to make consistent productions of speech sounds.
Children with CAS speak with a rate, rhythm, and stress of speech that can be disrupted,
and sometimes they can appear to be groping for placement.
A 6-year-old child has difficulty producing both regular and irregular plural forms.
Intervention for this problem would best target language at the level of
A. syntax
B. phonology
C. morphology
D. semantics
C. morphology
Explanation: Regular and irregular plural forms are morphological markers
, A patient is referred to speech therapy after a total laryngectomy. The SLP teaches the
patient to speak by taking air in through the mouth, trapping it in the throat, and then
releasing it. Which of the following treatments is the SLP primarily implementing with the
patient?
A. Tracheoesophageal puncture
B. Esophageal speech
C. Neck electrolarynx
D. Intraoral artificial larynx
B. Esophageal speech
Explanation: Esophageal speech focuses on using the esophagus to provide speech. and
no devices are used
A 72-year-old male presents to a (SNF) following a complicated hospital stay. The patient is
morbidly obese and has a history of COPD, depression, hypertension, diabetes, Bell's
palsy, encephalopathy. and congestive heart failure. During
his stay he was not intubated but became very weak.
He was placed on an NDD Level 2 diet with nectar-thick liquids due to aspiration of thin
liquids and poor oral control of reg. solids. The SLP noticed that the patient was disoriented
and confused, hallucinating, attempting to stand, and presented with aphonia.
An ENT consult stated there was no structural reason for the aphonia. Suspecting that the
aphonia was of a psychogenic etiology. the SLP made referral to the resident psychiatrist
and began
treatment for both the aphonia and for dysphagia.
A primary factor causing the patients psychogenic aphonia is the presence of:
A. Depression
B. Bells Palsy
