SLP-PRAXIS (5331) Exam Questions and Answers 100% Verified Graded A

Justin is a highly unintelligible 4-year-old boy. He has difficulties producing /w/, /t/, /d/, and /th/. If you were to treat him using a least phonological knowledge approach, your first target sound in therapy would be:________ - /th/ Patients who exhibit _________ have difficulty making nonspeech sounds, and cannot move the muscles of the throat, soft palate, and tongue for nonspeech purposes: - oral apraxia In ________ otitis media, the infection continues over a long period and the tympanic membrane is permanently ruptured. - chronic Examples of secondary stuttering include... - quivering of the nostrils hard blinking Danielle's father is concerned because her peers in preschool make fun of her speech. Danielle has normal receptive language and enjoys conversing with others. You share with her father that a 4-year-old child should be _____% intelligible - 90-100% When carcinoma affects the cricoid and trachea, the damage is.... - subglottic In the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, the patient has more... - cognition problems > language problems A patient arrives at an acute care hospital in order to have open heart surgery. After the surgery he complains about change in vocal quality and the SLP is consulted. He presents with an excessively high-pitched voice. What is the most likely cause of his change in vocal quality? - Damage of the left recurrent laryngeal nerve (part of Cranial Nerve 10) during surgery. Do normal adults aspirate during swallow? - Yes. Everyone aspirates without realizing it, a little each day. Social interactionist theorists believe that... - the structure of human language may have arisen from language's social communicative function in human relations Which of the following characteristics distinguish autism from Aperger's syndrome? - Lower IQ and lower language skills in autism; the reverse in Asperger's syndrome Which of the following cranial nerves is primarily responsible for innervating the larynx? - Cranial Nerve X When we assess culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students, we need to remember that federal law specifically mandates which of the following treatment guidelines? - Testing and evaluation materials must be provided and administered in the language or other mode of communication in which the child is most proficient. A 65-year-old man with presbycusis comes to you complaining that when he is in social situations such as parties, people don't speak loudly enough. He says that the noise creates a problem for him in hearing what people are saying. With what does this client have difficulty? - signal-to-noise ratio In developing a test with 100 items, a test developer correlates responses to the first 50 items with responses to the last 50 items. What is this intended to evaluate? - Split-half reliability In the scientific method, what is the experiment-first-and-explain-later approach? - The Inductive method A speech-language pathologist is holding a conference with the family of a 16-year-old girl with severe language-learning disabilities. The girl reads at a 3rd-grade level and has been in special education placements since 1st-grade. The speech-language pathologist tells the family, in a kind way, that their goal of their daughter attending medical school is unattainable. The family lashes out in anger against the speech-language pathologist, saying that he is wrong, pessimistic, and negative about their daughter and her abilities. In this situation, the family is utilizing which defense mechanism? - Displacement Which term describes a child's ability to mentally sort speech stimuli or remember what he or she has heard? - Auditory memory In Oller's stages of infant phonological development, reduplicated babbling precedes which of the following? - Nonreduplicated or variegated babbling What is the procedure that uses a pulsing light to permit the optical illusion of slow-motion viewing of the vocal folds? - Stroboscopy True or False? Some forms of dementia are reversible, especially in their early stages. - True. True or False? In right hemisphere syndrome, language is more severely impaired than communication. - False. With a typically developing child who speaks English as a second language, approximately how long does it take for basic interpersonal communication skills (BICS) to develop to a level commensurate with that of native English speakers? - 2 years Which one of the following is a homophonous pair? sheep--beep man--ban pan--fan honey--money list--gist - man--ban It would be considered ethical for a speech-language pathologist to do which of the following? - Make a reasonable statement of prognosis when the husband of a woman with aphasia asks about his wife's potential for improvement The term coarticulation refers to which of the following? - The influence of one phoneme upon another in production and perception, wherein two different articulators move simultaneously to produce two different speech sounds At what age should a typically developing child be able to understand agent-action relationships? - 3-4 years How do most professionals generally categorize cerebral palsy? - Ataxic, athetoid, and spastic types