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A concerned mother brings her 3-week-old child to you because he is having difficulties breathing. You refer the mother and her child to a physician. Upon laryngeal examination, the physician notices that a membrane has grown across the anterior portion of the glottis. The physician informs the mother that this problem may be either congenital or acquired and that surgery is required to remove the membrane. According to the physician, the diagnosis would be hyperkeratosis. B. leukoplakia. C. laryngeal web. D. papilloma. C. laryngeal web. When a person reads aloud a brief printed passage, the frequency of stuttering may decrease from the first to subsequent readings. Select the statement that is true of this phenomenon. A. It is known as the adaptation effect. B. Reduction in stuttering frequency is highest on the 10th reading. C. The effect transfers from one reading passage to another. D. The magnitude of the effect increases with increasing intervals between the oral readings. A. It is known as the adaptation effect. You are evaluating a 5-year-old boy whose mother has a history of alcohol abuse while she was carrying her son. In your assessment, you would look for specific speech and language problems; in addition, you would look for which of the following positive or negative signs? A. Normal motor and intellectual development, normal play activities, and normal facial and skull features B. Language problems, but no speech problems, coupled with good eye contact and generally compliant behavior C. Lack of gestures, good eye contact, and lack of attachment to new people D. Low birth weight and length, behavior problems, and possible swallowing difficulties D. Low birth weight and length, behavior problems, and possible swallowing difficulties In standardizing a test of language skills in children, the investigator asked two experts to judge each item on the test to make sure that all items were relevant to children's language skills. This is a method of establishing the A. concurrent validity. B. content validity. C. construct validity. D. predictive validity. B. content validity. You give a new test of cognition to patients on your hospital caseload who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. You find a vast spread in the scores of the patients, depending upon how advanced their Alzheimer's disease is. You want to determine the range of scores of your patients. What can you calculate to do this? A. The difference between the highest and the lowest scores of the patients to whom the test has been administered B. The lowest and highest 25% of the scores C. The middle 50% of the scores D. The middle 50% of the scores divided by 2 A. The difference between the highest and the lowest scores of the patients to whom the test has been administered You are seeing a 12-year-old girl at the local junior high school. Her scores on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Fourth Edition and the Expressive Vocabulary Test-Second Edition were both 2 years below age level. She has many friends and is well liked by her peers. Academically, she struggles with the vocabulary in her textbooks. Therapy should focus primarily on remediation of A. pragmatic skills. B. discourse. C. morphologic skills. D. semantic skills. D. semantic skills. You are working in a special needs school with children who are at risk for language disorders. A teacher referred to you a young boy whose symptoms include low birth weight, microcephaly, low-set ears, micrognathia, wide eyes, and excessive drooling. His behaviors include hyperactivity, tantrums, aggression, repetitive movements, feeding problems, catlike meowing, as well as severe cognitive, speech, and motor delays. The case history indicates that this syndrome is partially due to the deletion of the short arm of chromosome 5. Which syndrome does this child display? A. Bantis B. Cruveilhier-Baumgarten C. Cri du chat D. Mobius C. Cri du chat A child is referred to you by his preschool teacher. This child, Jaden, is 4 years 5 months old and has transferred from out of state. In his previous state, Jaden was reportedly assessed by a speech-language pathologist who recommended that he receive intervention before kindergarten. According to the report from the previous clinician, he uses the phonological processes of gliding, consonant-cluster reduction, stopping, reduplication, and final-consonant deletion. Your assessment confirms the presence of these phonological processes. You would begin treatment by addressing A. final-consonant deletion. B. gliding. C. consonant-cluster reduction. D. reduplication. D. reduplication. A thrombus is a A. traveling blood clot that blocks the flow of blood. B. stationary blood clot that blocks the flow of blood. C. cause of aphasia in women only. D. bleeding vessel. B. stationary blood clot that blocks the flow of blood. You are conducting therapy with a kindergartener with a speech sound disorder and language impairment. He has deficient phonological awareness skills, and you are targeting these skills in therapy along with other treatment targets. Which of the following are you working on as part of phonological awareness treatment? A. auditory discrimination skills B. metaphon skills C. awareness of print and print conventions D. rhyming, phoneme isolation, sound blending D. rhyming, phoneme isolation, sound blending A patient was referred for therapy to an outpatient rehabilitation facility because of a diagnosis of apraxia of speech post CVA. The clinician decided to use a shaping technique that focused on orofacial and articulatory postures with specific instructions about how to change current speech and non-speech movements to achieve the target sounds. This is an example of A. phonetic derivation. B. phonemic awareness. C. rate control. D. integral practice. A. phonetic derivation. You are evaluating the language skills of Pascal, who has come to the United States with his family from Mexico. As you are gathering a language sample, you hear many utterances that reflect the transfer of Spanish to English. Which of the following would be a typical utterance for a child from a Spanish-speaking home who is learning English in elementary school? A. "This balloon is more big." B. "I don't not have no more balloons." C. "The big house be red." D. "The girl's book done be gone." A. "This balloon is more big." The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) regulates professional practice in speech-language pathology and audiology by specifying the scope of practice. According to the existing scope-of-practice documents, which of the following statements is false? A. ASHA does not allow infant feeding by speech-language pathologists (SLPs). B. Memory and such other cognitive aspects of communication disorders are within the SLP's scope of practice. C. Counseling is not just the province of psychologists; SLPs, too, can counsel their clients. D. Sensory awareness training related to swallowing disorders is within the SLP's scope of practice. A. ASHA does not allow infant feeding by speech-language pathologists (SLPs) A patient comes to you complaining of a sore throat and hoarseness. After talking with the patient, you discover that he also often experiences heartburn and acid indigestion. You consult with the on-call physician, who mentions that this patient's gastric contents are spontaneously emptying into his esophagus. The physician's diagnosis of the problem is A. hyperkeratosis. B. laryngomalacia. C. gastroesophageal reflux. D. leukoplakia. C. gastroesophageal reflux. A patient was receiving irradiation to the oral and pharyngeal areas and was experiencing xerostomia, as well as weight loss and an increase in dental caries. During the evaluation, the clinician recommended that the patient A. swallow once prior to taking a spoonful of food in the mouth. B. swallow twice prior to taking a spoonful of food in the mouth. C. be given synthetic saliva just prior to eating. D. use a chin tuck procedure before swallowing. C. be given synthetic saliva just prior to eating.