ETS PRACTICE TEST #1 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Which of the following should be the primary focus of early language intervention for at-
risk infants? - Answer -Training primary caregivers to facilitate language learning
Primary motor innervation to the larynx and velum is provided by which cranial nerve? -
Answer -CN X: Vagus
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? - Answer -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.
Federal laws regarding freedom of access to information stipulate that client records
kept or written by health care professionals can be - Answer -reviewed only by the
clients themselves unless the client provides written permission to share with others
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? - Answer -A description of the language development of the child's older
siblings
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? - Answer -
It is measured in decibels and corresponds to the intensity level at which spondaic
words can be recognized approximately 50% of the time.
A clinician who employs active listening is doing which of the following? - Answer -
Responding to both the content and the affect of the client's remarks
A 55-year-old woman, recently hospitalized for probable cerebrovascular accident
(CVA), is referred for evaluation of stuttering speech. The initial conversation with the
client indicates that speech is characterized by frequent initial-phoneme repetitions and
prolongations as well as associated mildly effortful eye blinking. Which of the following
pieces of information is crucial to accurate speech diagnosis and decisions regarding
management of the speech problem? - Answer -Whether the dysfluencies began
before or after the suspected CVA
, Which of the following is the best action to take initially with a client who presents with
poor oral control of liquids and solids, coughing and choking while eating and drinking,
and a history of hospitalizations associated with pneumonia? - Answer -Obtaining a
modified barium-swallow study to determine appropriate interventions
A number of research reports have described poor auditory memory in children with
language impairments. Which of the following can most appropriately be concluded
from these studies? - Answer -Poor auditory memory could be a reflection or a cause of
a language impairment or could be related to some other factor, and further research is
needed to determine which is the case.
Ms. Brown, a 70-year-old retired female, was admitted to the hospital following a CVA.
The SLP conducted a comprehensive evaluation that revealed the presence of left-side
neglect, anosognosia (denial of impairment), and visuospatial problems, including
prosopagnosia (difficulty recognizing familiar faces). Although her auditory
comprehension and repetition skills were good, she experienced difficulty with topic
maintenance and turn taking. Based on the clinical features described, Ms. Brown's
diagnostic classification would most likely be - Answer -Cognitive-communicative
disorder consistent with right hemisphere damage
A client exhibits weakness, atrophy, and fasciculations of the right side of the tongue
and lower face. The client also has right vocal-fold weakness and nasal regurgitation of
fluid when swallowing. These problems are the result of damage to which part of the
nervous system? - Answer -Brain stem
Which of the following constitutes the major component of an audiologic rehabilitation
program for infants with a moderate sensorineural hearing loss? - Answer -Parent-
mediated auditory stimulation
A child exhibits the following production errors.
w/r
θ/s
t/ʃ
t/tʃ
z/dʒ
t/k
d/g
If a target sound for initial intervention is to be selected on the basis of established
developmental norms, then that sound will be - Answer -/k/
A public-school-based speech-language pathologist is employed in a state that sets the
maximum caseload at 65. However, the clinician's caseload is currently at 64 with a
waiting list of 10 additional students. The school principal insists that the speech-
language pathologist enroll the 10 students immediately, because the district cannot
Which of the following should be the primary focus of early language intervention for at-
risk infants? - Answer -Training primary caregivers to facilitate language learning
Primary motor innervation to the larynx and velum is provided by which cranial nerve? -
Answer -CN X: Vagus
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? - Answer -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.
Federal laws regarding freedom of access to information stipulate that client records
kept or written by health care professionals can be - Answer -reviewed only by the
clients themselves unless the client provides written permission to share with others
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? - Answer -A description of the language development of the child's older
siblings
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? - Answer -
It is measured in decibels and corresponds to the intensity level at which spondaic
words can be recognized approximately 50% of the time.
A clinician who employs active listening is doing which of the following? - Answer -
Responding to both the content and the affect of the client's remarks
A 55-year-old woman, recently hospitalized for probable cerebrovascular accident
(CVA), is referred for evaluation of stuttering speech. The initial conversation with the
client indicates that speech is characterized by frequent initial-phoneme repetitions and
prolongations as well as associated mildly effortful eye blinking. Which of the following
pieces of information is crucial to accurate speech diagnosis and decisions regarding
management of the speech problem? - Answer -Whether the dysfluencies began
before or after the suspected CVA
, Which of the following is the best action to take initially with a client who presents with
poor oral control of liquids and solids, coughing and choking while eating and drinking,
and a history of hospitalizations associated with pneumonia? - Answer -Obtaining a
modified barium-swallow study to determine appropriate interventions
A number of research reports have described poor auditory memory in children with
language impairments. Which of the following can most appropriately be concluded
from these studies? - Answer -Poor auditory memory could be a reflection or a cause of
a language impairment or could be related to some other factor, and further research is
needed to determine which is the case.
Ms. Brown, a 70-year-old retired female, was admitted to the hospital following a CVA.
The SLP conducted a comprehensive evaluation that revealed the presence of left-side
neglect, anosognosia (denial of impairment), and visuospatial problems, including
prosopagnosia (difficulty recognizing familiar faces). Although her auditory
comprehension and repetition skills were good, she experienced difficulty with topic
maintenance and turn taking. Based on the clinical features described, Ms. Brown's
diagnostic classification would most likely be - Answer -Cognitive-communicative
disorder consistent with right hemisphere damage
A client exhibits weakness, atrophy, and fasciculations of the right side of the tongue
and lower face. The client also has right vocal-fold weakness and nasal regurgitation of
fluid when swallowing. These problems are the result of damage to which part of the
nervous system? - Answer -Brain stem
Which of the following constitutes the major component of an audiologic rehabilitation
program for infants with a moderate sensorineural hearing loss? - Answer -Parent-
mediated auditory stimulation
A child exhibits the following production errors.
w/r
θ/s
t/ʃ
t/tʃ
z/dʒ
t/k
d/g
If a target sound for initial intervention is to be selected on the basis of established
developmental norms, then that sound will be - Answer -/k/
A public-school-based speech-language pathologist is employed in a state that sets the
maximum caseload at 65. However, the clinician's caseload is currently at 64 with a
waiting list of 10 additional students. The school principal insists that the speech-
language pathologist enroll the 10 students immediately, because the district cannot
