0511 An Advanced Review of Speech-Language
Pathology, 5th Edition: Practice Examinations Question
of the Day Study Set questions with verified answers
A 48-year-old stroke patient was misreading words that were irregularly spelled
(e.g., Wednesday) but had no problems with non-words that they had never
encountered before (e.g., Diggle). This patient probably presents with:
A.
Functional alexia
B.
Deep alexia
C.
Surface alexia
D.
Phonological alexia Ans✔✔✔-C.
Surface alexia
A new client comes to your office with severe allergies as one of the medical
conditions listed on his case history form. Which of the following statements best
describes why this piece of information would be important to you as a speech-
language pathologist?
A.
Allergies are not important because of their high prevalence but they should still
be listed on his case history form for other professionals such as physicians.
B.
,They can have potential implications for the development of a speech and
language disorder.
C.
Allergies cause a fluid buildup in the middle ear, which results in a hearing loss
and speech and language difficulties.
D.
Allergies result in airway inflammation, which hurts the sound quality of the voice.
Ans✔✔✔-B.
They can have potential implications for the development of a speech and
language disorder.
You have just administered a standardized test of articulation to a boy with
speech sound disorders. You had decided that the test was appropriate for the
child because children of the same background as the child were sampled in the
normative standardization process. The child scored in the 50th percentile on the
test. Which of the following statements is a correct interpretation of this score?
A.
The child is below average in speech sound production.
B.
The child's score is equivalent to the median in the normative sample.
C.
The child is above average in speech sound production.
D.
The test results suggest target speech productions for treatment. Ans✔✔✔-B.
The child's score is equivalent to the median in the normative sample.
,When assessing the communicative disorders of your 10-year-old client Sofia, you
use charting—which provides a method of scoring her responses and identifying
herabilities/deficits. Choose the incorrect statement about charting:
A.
If Sofia stays in her chair for 30 seconds, this is an example of a behavior that is
worth charting.
B.
Speech pathologists use one way to chart behaviors and that is by noting each
time a preselected behavior is exhibited.
C.
Even if certain behaviors are not necessarily caused by the communicative
disorder, charting can still be appropriate for behaviors that are important in the
treatment process.
D.
Different forms are available that are designed for specific age groups. Ans✔✔✔-
B.
Speech pathologists use one way to chart behaviors and that is by noting each
time a preselected behavior is exhibited.
The parents of a 10-year-old child consult a clinician. The child is short and has
intellectual delay, cryptorchidism, and sleeps excessively. He also has a speech
delay, hyperphagia, and is obese. The clinician notices that the child has a
prominent nasal bridge, high, narrow forehead, thin upper lip, downturned
mouth, almond-shaped eyes, and small hands and feet. The parents report that
he frequently picks his skin. They report that the genetic counselor informed
them that his condition is caused by autosomal dominant inheritance and
deletion in the long arm of chromosome 15 (15q11015q13) in some cases. The
child has
, A.
Cornelia de Lange syndrome.
B.
Apert syndrome.
C.
Prader-Willi syndrome.
D.
Dandy-Walker syndrome. Ans✔✔✔-C.
Prader-Willi syndrome.
You are evaluating a 4-year-old patient whose mother states that she is
concerned about his mild hypernasality and frequent ear infections. During an
oral mechanism examination, you observe a bifid uvula. The presence of a bifid
uvula may indicate that the patient has:
A.
Velopharyngeal incompetence
B.
A submucous cleft palate
C.
Dysarthria
D.
Hypertrophy and edema of the vocal folds Ans✔✔✔-B.
A submucous cleft palate
Pathology, 5th Edition: Practice Examinations Question
of the Day Study Set questions with verified answers
A 48-year-old stroke patient was misreading words that were irregularly spelled
(e.g., Wednesday) but had no problems with non-words that they had never
encountered before (e.g., Diggle). This patient probably presents with:
A.
Functional alexia
B.
Deep alexia
C.
Surface alexia
D.
Phonological alexia Ans✔✔✔-C.
Surface alexia
A new client comes to your office with severe allergies as one of the medical
conditions listed on his case history form. Which of the following statements best
describes why this piece of information would be important to you as a speech-
language pathologist?
A.
Allergies are not important because of their high prevalence but they should still
be listed on his case history form for other professionals such as physicians.
B.
,They can have potential implications for the development of a speech and
language disorder.
C.
Allergies cause a fluid buildup in the middle ear, which results in a hearing loss
and speech and language difficulties.
D.
Allergies result in airway inflammation, which hurts the sound quality of the voice.
Ans✔✔✔-B.
They can have potential implications for the development of a speech and
language disorder.
You have just administered a standardized test of articulation to a boy with
speech sound disorders. You had decided that the test was appropriate for the
child because children of the same background as the child were sampled in the
normative standardization process. The child scored in the 50th percentile on the
test. Which of the following statements is a correct interpretation of this score?
A.
The child is below average in speech sound production.
B.
The child's score is equivalent to the median in the normative sample.
C.
The child is above average in speech sound production.
D.
The test results suggest target speech productions for treatment. Ans✔✔✔-B.
The child's score is equivalent to the median in the normative sample.
,When assessing the communicative disorders of your 10-year-old client Sofia, you
use charting—which provides a method of scoring her responses and identifying
herabilities/deficits. Choose the incorrect statement about charting:
A.
If Sofia stays in her chair for 30 seconds, this is an example of a behavior that is
worth charting.
B.
Speech pathologists use one way to chart behaviors and that is by noting each
time a preselected behavior is exhibited.
C.
Even if certain behaviors are not necessarily caused by the communicative
disorder, charting can still be appropriate for behaviors that are important in the
treatment process.
D.
Different forms are available that are designed for specific age groups. Ans✔✔✔-
B.
Speech pathologists use one way to chart behaviors and that is by noting each
time a preselected behavior is exhibited.
The parents of a 10-year-old child consult a clinician. The child is short and has
intellectual delay, cryptorchidism, and sleeps excessively. He also has a speech
delay, hyperphagia, and is obese. The clinician notices that the child has a
prominent nasal bridge, high, narrow forehead, thin upper lip, downturned
mouth, almond-shaped eyes, and small hands and feet. The parents report that
he frequently picks his skin. They report that the genetic counselor informed
them that his condition is caused by autosomal dominant inheritance and
deletion in the long arm of chromosome 15 (15q11015q13) in some cases. The
child has
, A.
Cornelia de Lange syndrome.
B.
Apert syndrome.
C.
Prader-Willi syndrome.
D.
Dandy-Walker syndrome. Ans✔✔✔-C.
Prader-Willi syndrome.
You are evaluating a 4-year-old patient whose mother states that she is
concerned about his mild hypernasality and frequent ear infections. During an
oral mechanism examination, you observe a bifid uvula. The presence of a bifid
uvula may indicate that the patient has:
A.
Velopharyngeal incompetence
B.
A submucous cleft palate
C.
Dysarthria
D.
Hypertrophy and edema of the vocal folds Ans✔✔✔-B.
A submucous cleft palate
