SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY SLP PRAXIS
2026 CERTIFICATION TEST QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS UPDATED
◉ cluttering. Answer: Highly dysfluent, rapid, unclear and
disorganized speech. Lack of personal concern or reduced
awareness about problem
◉ gestural AAC. Answer: No instruments or external aids are used;
pantomime, eyeblink encoding, American Indian hand talk, ASL
◉ Hemorrhagic stroke. Answer: Caused by bleeding in the brain due
to ruptured blood vessels. Intracerebral (within brain) or
extracerebral (within the meninges, resulting in subarachnoid,
subdural and epidural varieties)
◉ Diaphragm. Answer: Respiration relies on the muscles of
inspiration and expiration. The thick dome shaped muscle that
separates the abdomen from the thorax is called the
◉ Diaphragm. Answer: Respiration relies on the muscles of
inspiration and expiration. The thick dome shaped muscle that
separates the abdomen from the thorax is called the
,◉ orbicularis oris. Answer: The primary muscle of the lips is the
◉ efferent nerves. Answer: Also called motor nerves; nerves that
carry information out of the brain and spinal cord to other areas of
the body.
◉ globus, pallidus, caudate, and putamen. Answer: The corpus
striatum is composed of three nuclear masses, which are the
◉ corpus callosum and basal ganglia. Answer: The anterior cerebral
artery supplies blood to the
◉ Aryepiglottic folds. Answer: These are composed of a ring of
connective tissue and muscle extending from the tips of the
arytenoid cartilages to the larynx. They separate the laryngeal
vestibule from the pharynx and help preserve the airway
◉ palatoglossus, tensor veli palatini, and levator veli palatini.
Answer: Muscles that contribute to the velopharyngeal closure
through tensing to elevating the velum are the
◉ lingual frenulum. Answer: The structure at the inferior portion of
the tongue that connects the tongue with the mandible is the
,◉ genioglossus. Answer: When a person is producing voiced and
voiceless /th/, the muscle most involved is the
◉ X. Answer: The cranial nerve that innervates the larynx and
inneravates the levator veli palatini, palatoglossus, and
palatopharyngeus muscles is
◉ Lateral cricoarytenoids and transverse arytenoids. Answer: Which
muscles from the list are most involved in adducting the vocal folds?
◉ commissural fibers. Answer: cerebral hemispheres are connected
by
◉ reticular activating system. Answer: The central nervous systems
primary mechanism of attention, alertness, and consciousness,
which is also related to sleep wake cycles is the
◉ percentral gyrus. Answer: The primary motor cortex in the frontal
lobe is located on the
◉ Coarticulation. Answer: the influence of one phoneme upon
another in production and perception wherein two different
articulators move simultaneously to produce two different speech
sounds.
, ◉ mass and elasticity. Answer: Two properties of a medium that
affect sound transmission are
◉ sinusoidal wave. Answer: a sound wave that has
horizontal/vertical symmetry, one peak and one valley, single
frequency and results of simple harmonic motion.
◉ octave. Answer: an indication of the interval between two
frequencies
◉ natural frequency. Answer: a frequency with which a source of
sound vibrates naturally
◉ oscillation. Answer: Back and forth movement of air molecules
because of vibrating object is known as
◉ fundamental frequency. Answer: The lowest frequency of a
periodic wave is also known as the
◉ complex tone. Answer: When two or more sounds of differing
frequencies are added the result is a
2026 CERTIFICATION TEST QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS UPDATED
◉ cluttering. Answer: Highly dysfluent, rapid, unclear and
disorganized speech. Lack of personal concern or reduced
awareness about problem
◉ gestural AAC. Answer: No instruments or external aids are used;
pantomime, eyeblink encoding, American Indian hand talk, ASL
◉ Hemorrhagic stroke. Answer: Caused by bleeding in the brain due
to ruptured blood vessels. Intracerebral (within brain) or
extracerebral (within the meninges, resulting in subarachnoid,
subdural and epidural varieties)
◉ Diaphragm. Answer: Respiration relies on the muscles of
inspiration and expiration. The thick dome shaped muscle that
separates the abdomen from the thorax is called the
◉ Diaphragm. Answer: Respiration relies on the muscles of
inspiration and expiration. The thick dome shaped muscle that
separates the abdomen from the thorax is called the
,◉ orbicularis oris. Answer: The primary muscle of the lips is the
◉ efferent nerves. Answer: Also called motor nerves; nerves that
carry information out of the brain and spinal cord to other areas of
the body.
◉ globus, pallidus, caudate, and putamen. Answer: The corpus
striatum is composed of three nuclear masses, which are the
◉ corpus callosum and basal ganglia. Answer: The anterior cerebral
artery supplies blood to the
◉ Aryepiglottic folds. Answer: These are composed of a ring of
connective tissue and muscle extending from the tips of the
arytenoid cartilages to the larynx. They separate the laryngeal
vestibule from the pharynx and help preserve the airway
◉ palatoglossus, tensor veli palatini, and levator veli palatini.
Answer: Muscles that contribute to the velopharyngeal closure
through tensing to elevating the velum are the
◉ lingual frenulum. Answer: The structure at the inferior portion of
the tongue that connects the tongue with the mandible is the
,◉ genioglossus. Answer: When a person is producing voiced and
voiceless /th/, the muscle most involved is the
◉ X. Answer: The cranial nerve that innervates the larynx and
inneravates the levator veli palatini, palatoglossus, and
palatopharyngeus muscles is
◉ Lateral cricoarytenoids and transverse arytenoids. Answer: Which
muscles from the list are most involved in adducting the vocal folds?
◉ commissural fibers. Answer: cerebral hemispheres are connected
by
◉ reticular activating system. Answer: The central nervous systems
primary mechanism of attention, alertness, and consciousness,
which is also related to sleep wake cycles is the
◉ percentral gyrus. Answer: The primary motor cortex in the frontal
lobe is located on the
◉ Coarticulation. Answer: the influence of one phoneme upon
another in production and perception wherein two different
articulators move simultaneously to produce two different speech
sounds.
, ◉ mass and elasticity. Answer: Two properties of a medium that
affect sound transmission are
◉ sinusoidal wave. Answer: a sound wave that has
horizontal/vertical symmetry, one peak and one valley, single
frequency and results of simple harmonic motion.
◉ octave. Answer: an indication of the interval between two
frequencies
◉ natural frequency. Answer: a frequency with which a source of
sound vibrates naturally
◉ oscillation. Answer: Back and forth movement of air molecules
because of vibrating object is known as
◉ fundamental frequency. Answer: The lowest frequency of a
periodic wave is also known as the
◉ complex tone. Answer: When two or more sounds of differing
frequencies are added the result is a
