CSAD 126 Final Exam Questions with Correct Solutions Latest Update 2025/2026

CSAD 126 Final Exam Questions with Correct Solutions Latest Update 2025/2026 what is cerebral palsy? - Answers non-progressive motor disorder due to pre, peri or post natal damage. According to Fogle, 2019: CP often results from...? - Answers 1. infantile hypoxia 2. infantile anoxia what is infantile hypoxia? - Answers partial or significantly diminished supply of oxygen to brain what is infantile anoxia? - Answers oxygen is completely cut off what are the 5 types of CP? - Answers 1. spastic 2. athetoid 3. ataxic 4. rigid 5. mixed what is spastic CP? - Answers 50%, slow, jerky movements and increased muscle tone what is athetoid CP? - Answers 10%, slow, writhing, involuntary movements what is ataxic CP? - Answers 5-10%, balance problems but normal reflexes and muscle tone what is rigid CP? - Answers 1%, simultaneous contraction of all muscle groups what is mixed CP? - Answers 30%, several types what are speech problems in kids with CP? - Answers 1. oral motor 2. feeding 3. slow DDK rates, discoordination of tongue 4. resonance 5. prosody 6. respiration 7. phonation 8. articulation how do you assess speech problems in kids with CP? - Answers 1. oral motor- assess speech and non speech tasks 2. feeding- sucking, chewing, swallowing 3. resonance- emission on consonants, hyper nasality on vowels 4. prosody- monotone, mono loudness 5. respiration- rapid breathing, waste of air, trailing off at the end of sentences 6. phonation- weak voice, strained if vocal folds are hyper adducted 7. articulation- imprecise, weak pressure consonants what is dysarthria? - Answers neuromotor disorder affecting all systems: respiration, phonation, articulation, resonance, prosody dysarthria is due to? - Answers CP, degenerative diseases and stroke what are characteristics to look for during assessment of dysarthria? - Answers - breathy respiration - difficulty with appropriate syllable stress - arctic: imprecise, distorted consonants, weak pressure consonants - resonance, hyper nasality - phonation- monotone, mono loudness, often soft voice According to ASHA 2018, CAS occurs in how many children? - Answers 1-2 per 1000 According to ASHA 2018, CAS is found in what percent of children who are referred for SSDs? - Answers 4% true or false: idiopathic CAS affects more boys than girls by a ratio of 2 or 3:1 - Answers true true or false: According to Stoel-Gammon and Dunn 2017, most children with CAS don't have a family member with a speech or language disorder - Answers false; most children with CAS have a family member with a speech or language disorder true or false: CAS has a genetic component - Answers true what are some characteristics of children with CAS? - Answers 1. inconsistent errors 2. flat prosody 3. difficulty sequencing sounds and syllables 4. moderately to severely unintelligible true or false: CAS is not the result of neuromuscular weakness - Answers true children with CAS have ______ and ______ - Answers impaired motor planning and programming capabilities true or false: children with CAS are automatically learn motor plans necessary for rapid, accurate speech production - Answers false; they are unable to automatically learn motor plans necessary for rapid, accurate speech production at which level are children with CAS better? - Answers they are better at word level than connected speech what are some associated problems in children with CAS? - Answers 1. family history in some children 2. possible learning disability 3. better receptive language skills, decreased expressive language 4. slow treatment progress 5. oral apraxia and difficulty with volitional non speech tasks 6. slow DDKs 7. "soft" neurological signs- gross and fine motor incoordination during assessment of CAS, what should you evaluate? - Answers 1. pitch, loudness, prosody 2. overall intelligibility 3. resonance- hypernasal? 4. DDKs- alternating /pupupupu/ and sequential motion /putukuputuku/