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Primary motor innveration to the larynx and velum is provided by which cranial nerve? -
Cranial nerve X (Vagus)
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
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Primary motor innveration to the larynx and velum is provided by which cranial nerve? -
Cranial nerve X (Vagus)
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
