CETP Practice Test Assessments Questions (with correct
solutions) 2025/2026
Primary motor innervation to the larynx and velum is provided by which cranial nerve? -
Cranial nerve X (Vigus)
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?
Select all that apply.
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.
D. It will likely lead Fela to adopt SAE as her primary dialect. - A, B, C
This investigation was motivated by observations that when persons with dysarthria increase
loudness, their speech improves. Some studies have indicated that this improvement may be
related to an increase of prosodic variation. Studies have reported an increase of
fundamental frequency (F0) variation with increased loudness, but there has been no
examination of the relation of loudness manipulation to specific prosodic variables that are
known to aid a listener in parsing out meaningful information. This study examined the
relation of vocal loudness production to selected acoustic variables known to inform
listeners of phrase and sentence boundaries: specifically, F0 declination and final-word
lengthening. Ten young, healthy women were audio-recorded while they read aloud a
paragraph at what each considered normal loudness, twice-normal loudness, and half-
normal loudness. Results showed that there was a statistically - C. Vocal loudness
A client exhibits weakness, atrophy, and fasciculation's 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?
A. Brain stem
B. Cerebellum
C. Left cerebral cortex
D. Right cerebral cortex - A. Brain stem
- Weakness, atrophy, fasciculation's, and the other described symptoms are all consistent
with lower motor neurone locus and suspected cranial nerve abnormalities, which emerge
directly from the brainstem.
Hearing loss in infants who are born with a cleft palate is usually related to which of the
following?
A. The infant's ability to create positive pressure in the oral cavity
B. Malformation of the middle-ear ossicles associated with malformation of the palate
C. Eustachian tube dysfunction
D. Cochlear dysfunction - C. Eustachian tube dysfunction
- Eustachian tube dysfunction, a major factor contributing to middle-ear disease and
conductive hearing loss, is nearly universal in infants with cleft palate
Which of the following is the most important acoustic cue that distinguishes between an
unreleased final /p/ and an unreleased final /b/, as in cap versus cab?
A. Locus frequency of burst
B. Voice onset time
C. Vocal fundamental frequency
D. Duration of the preceding vowel - D. Duration of the preceding vowel
- vowel duration influences a listener's perception of voicing
- vowels that precede unreleased voiced stop consonants are as much as 1.5x as long as
vowels that precede voiceless stops
,Language intervention for a child at the one-word stage should be most strongly influenced
by a consideration of the child's
A. motor skills
B. cognitive skills
C. syntactic skills
D. articulation skills - B. cognitive skills
- the cognitive skills at the one-word stage will most strongly influence the child's speech-
language responses
A single exposure of several hours duration to continuous music with an overall level of 100
dB SPL will most likely produce
A.tinnitus and a temporary threshold shift in high frequencies
B.tinnitus and a distortion of speech perception
C.a temporary threshold shift in the low frequencies
D.a permanent threshold shift - A. tinnitus and a temporary threshold shift in high
frequencies
After sustaining a CVA, Ms. Williams, age 75, was referred to an SLP for a speech and
language evaluation. While Ms. Williams was describing the cookie-theft picture, the SLP
observed that her grammatical structure appeared to be intact and her prosody was normal
but that many of her sentences were meaningless, did not fit the context, and included
nonsensical paraphasic errors. Additional testing also revealed that Ms. Williams exhibited
poor repetition and naming skills, did not respond appropriately to many simple commands,
and had difficulty reading. Ms. Williams appeared happy and talked excessively. She did not
appear to be aware of her communication deficits. What is the most likely location of the
lesion?
A.Left posterior superior temporal gyrus
B.Left inferior frontal gyrus
C.Left superior frontal gyrus
D.Left inferior parietal gyrus - A. Left posterior superior temporal gyrus
, An SLP who is treating an adolescent who stutters designs a treatment plan that includes
three fluency management strategies: prolonged speech, cancellation, and pullout.
Which of the following is true about the use of these treatment strategies?
Select all that apply.
A.Use of prolonged speech is likely to reduce the frequency of part-word repetitions and
sound prolongations significantly.
B.Each of the three strategies entails deliberate regulation of speech motor movements.
C.The client will seek to apply cancellation whenever he feels anxious about the possibility of
stuttering overtly.
D.The client will seek to apply pullout during the course of part-word repetition or sound
prolongation. - A, B, D
A 12-year-old native speaker of Spanish who has been studying English as a second language
for three years is most likely to do which of the following when speaking English in casual
conversation with teachers at school?
A. Use the auxiliary "have" in place of "be" in progressive tenses
B. Use incorrect word order with prepositional phrases
C. Use conjunctions in place of prepositions
D. Use multiple negation improperly - D. Use multiple negation improperly
- Multiple negation is a grammatical feature of Spanish but not English
A prospective client is described as a man in his forties who is under chronic stress. He uses
his voice extensively in daily life, has a hard-driving personality, and exhibits glottal fry. The
client has the classic profile of a person at high risk for
A. spastic dysphonia
B. acute laryngitis
solutions) 2025/2026
Primary motor innervation to the larynx and velum is provided by which cranial nerve? -
Cranial nerve X (Vigus)
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?
Select all that apply.
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.
D. It will likely lead Fela to adopt SAE as her primary dialect. - A, B, C
This investigation was motivated by observations that when persons with dysarthria increase
loudness, their speech improves. Some studies have indicated that this improvement may be
related to an increase of prosodic variation. Studies have reported an increase of
fundamental frequency (F0) variation with increased loudness, but there has been no
examination of the relation of loudness manipulation to specific prosodic variables that are
known to aid a listener in parsing out meaningful information. This study examined the
relation of vocal loudness production to selected acoustic variables known to inform
listeners of phrase and sentence boundaries: specifically, F0 declination and final-word
lengthening. Ten young, healthy women were audio-recorded while they read aloud a
paragraph at what each considered normal loudness, twice-normal loudness, and half-
normal loudness. Results showed that there was a statistically - C. Vocal loudness
A client exhibits weakness, atrophy, and fasciculation's 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?
A. Brain stem
B. Cerebellum
C. Left cerebral cortex
D. Right cerebral cortex - A. Brain stem
- Weakness, atrophy, fasciculation's, and the other described symptoms are all consistent
with lower motor neurone locus and suspected cranial nerve abnormalities, which emerge
directly from the brainstem.
Hearing loss in infants who are born with a cleft palate is usually related to which of the
following?
A. The infant's ability to create positive pressure in the oral cavity
B. Malformation of the middle-ear ossicles associated with malformation of the palate
C. Eustachian tube dysfunction
D. Cochlear dysfunction - C. Eustachian tube dysfunction
- Eustachian tube dysfunction, a major factor contributing to middle-ear disease and
conductive hearing loss, is nearly universal in infants with cleft palate
Which of the following is the most important acoustic cue that distinguishes between an
unreleased final /p/ and an unreleased final /b/, as in cap versus cab?
A. Locus frequency of burst
B. Voice onset time
C. Vocal fundamental frequency
D. Duration of the preceding vowel - D. Duration of the preceding vowel
- vowel duration influences a listener's perception of voicing
- vowels that precede unreleased voiced stop consonants are as much as 1.5x as long as
vowels that precede voiceless stops
,Language intervention for a child at the one-word stage should be most strongly influenced
by a consideration of the child's
A. motor skills
B. cognitive skills
C. syntactic skills
D. articulation skills - B. cognitive skills
- the cognitive skills at the one-word stage will most strongly influence the child's speech-
language responses
A single exposure of several hours duration to continuous music with an overall level of 100
dB SPL will most likely produce
A.tinnitus and a temporary threshold shift in high frequencies
B.tinnitus and a distortion of speech perception
C.a temporary threshold shift in the low frequencies
D.a permanent threshold shift - A. tinnitus and a temporary threshold shift in high
frequencies
After sustaining a CVA, Ms. Williams, age 75, was referred to an SLP for a speech and
language evaluation. While Ms. Williams was describing the cookie-theft picture, the SLP
observed that her grammatical structure appeared to be intact and her prosody was normal
but that many of her sentences were meaningless, did not fit the context, and included
nonsensical paraphasic errors. Additional testing also revealed that Ms. Williams exhibited
poor repetition and naming skills, did not respond appropriately to many simple commands,
and had difficulty reading. Ms. Williams appeared happy and talked excessively. She did not
appear to be aware of her communication deficits. What is the most likely location of the
lesion?
A.Left posterior superior temporal gyrus
B.Left inferior frontal gyrus
C.Left superior frontal gyrus
D.Left inferior parietal gyrus - A. Left posterior superior temporal gyrus
, An SLP who is treating an adolescent who stutters designs a treatment plan that includes
three fluency management strategies: prolonged speech, cancellation, and pullout.
Which of the following is true about the use of these treatment strategies?
Select all that apply.
A.Use of prolonged speech is likely to reduce the frequency of part-word repetitions and
sound prolongations significantly.
B.Each of the three strategies entails deliberate regulation of speech motor movements.
C.The client will seek to apply cancellation whenever he feels anxious about the possibility of
stuttering overtly.
D.The client will seek to apply pullout during the course of part-word repetition or sound
prolongation. - A, B, D
A 12-year-old native speaker of Spanish who has been studying English as a second language
for three years is most likely to do which of the following when speaking English in casual
conversation with teachers at school?
A. Use the auxiliary "have" in place of "be" in progressive tenses
B. Use incorrect word order with prepositional phrases
C. Use conjunctions in place of prepositions
D. Use multiple negation improperly - D. Use multiple negation improperly
- Multiple negation is a grammatical feature of Spanish but not English
A prospective client is described as a man in his forties who is under chronic stress. He uses
his voice extensively in daily life, has a hard-driving personality, and exhibits glottal fry. The
client has the classic profile of a person at high risk for
A. spastic dysphonia
B. acute laryngitis
