SLP PRAXIS EXAM | ALL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
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A SLP who has been working on improving speech intelligibility of non-
native speakers of English wanted to collected objective evidence that his
client's speech intelligibility was improving. She recruits four speech-
language pathology graduate students at the local university to watch
"before-and-after" videos of his accent clients and independently rate each
client's speech intelligibility. He finds that for the same client, the
intelligibility ratings varied from a 10% to a 60% across the four students. In
this situation, one can say that there is: ---------CORRECT ANSWER---------
--------low interjudge reliability
Gist: During an experiment, the researchers finds that many participants in
the experimental group attend church each Sunday and go to Sunday
school after church. They will do bible study and a discussion. None of the
control group attend church of Sunday School. At the end of the
experiment, the experimental group have improved significantly than the
control group. What can the researcher safely conclude from her study? ----
-----CORRECT ANSWER-----------------The experimental group's Sunday
school and church attendance on a weekly basis was a possible
confounding variable in the study, making it impossible to firmly conclude
that the NAP alone caused the difference in the performance of the
experimental and control groups.
A clinician in private practice often administers the Word Abilities Keystone
Evaluation—Upper Portion test to children with language disorders. One
day, she becomes curious about the "Typical score" of the children to
whom she administers the WAKE-UP. The clinician takes the WAKE-UP
scores of 17 children and lines them up in order from lowest to highest
score. The clinician concludes that the "typical" or average score on the
WAKE-UP is a 73. In terms of measures of central tendency, the average
,score calculated by the clinician is the: ---------CORRECT ANSWER----------
-------median.
A reviewer has published an article on treatment of vocal abuse in children.
The article has critically examined research studies with acceptable
methods and procedures and has made an integrative evaluation of
evidence for the different ways of treating vocal abuse. This evaluation
across studies involved a special kind of statistical analysis which is called
a: ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------meta-analysis
A clinical researcher, who has been using Van Riper's fluent stuttering
approach to treating stuttering in adults, realizes that its effectiveness is
unknown. He plans to design a study to find out if the method is effective.
To make a valid conclusion, the researcher must use: ---------CORRECT
ANSWER-----------------one of the experimental designs.
The belief that vocally abusive behaviors in humans lead to vocal nodules
and the resulting voice disorder is supported by: ---------CORRECT
ANSWER-----------------ex post facto or retrospective research.
An investigator is interested in evaluating the relative effects of three
treatments on the production of grammatical morphemes in children with
autism spectrum. The investigator also wishes to see if each treatment is
effective in its own right. The most appropriate experimental design for this
study is: ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------a group design with four
groups.
Too many treatment procedures to treat a single communication disorder is
one of the perplexities clinicians face. To survive this perplexity and to
select a treatment procedure for a given disorder, the clinician should: ------
,---CORRECT ANSWER-----------------read a meta-analytic report that is
available.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) includes,
among other mandates: ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------a uniform
federal standard for protecting the privacy of patients, to be followed by all
medical, nonmedical, and allied health personnel in the country.
Public Law 99-457: ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------increased
federal support for services to disabled children 3-6 years of age and
provided funding for infants and toddlers.
In most states, to work in the public schools, speech-language pathologists
and audiologists are required to possess: ---------CORRECT ANSWER------
-----------a state-issued credential from an agency such as the Department
of Education
Which one of the following is not true? ---------CORRECT ANSWER----------
-------To receive a Certificate of Clinical Competence in speech-language
pathology or audiology, a speech-language pathologist or audiologist
needs only to have a state-granted credential to work in public schools.
P.L. 94-142, the Education of the Handicapped Act, was later reauthorized
and retitled as: ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------The Individuals
with Disabilities Education Act.
Activities that may be carried out by trained SLPA (according to ASHA)
include: ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------implementing treatment
, plans developed by the supervising SLP, checking and maintaining
equipment, and collecting and documenting data for quality improvement.
Parents in a local school district have asked a clinician to give an in-service
on the IDEA (1997). The parents are interested in the content of the IDEA
regarding their parental rights, and so forth. Which one of the following
would not be accurate for the clinician to tell the parents at the in-service? -
--------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------The IDEA discourages serving
children with disabilities in general education classroom settings; rather, it
encourages school districts to create more specialized pull-out programs
for such children to best serve their needs.
Which statement is true about ASHA's special interest groups (SIGs)? ------
---CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Clinical Specialty Recognition is
available only in a few specialty areas.
According to ASHA standards, which one of the following activities would
not be within the scope of practice of a speech-language pathologist? -------
--CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Prescribing hearing aids for children
and adults with hearing losses.
P.L. 99-457 established mandated development of Individualized Family
Service Plans (IFSPs). Which one the following is not required to be
included in a child's IFSP? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------A
review of the plan at 12-month intervals or more frequently if needed.
The law stating that employers must provide special equipment for workers
with disabilities (e.g., relay stations for users of TDDs) is: ---------CORRECT
ANSWER-----------------The Americans with Disabilities Act
ANSWERS | ALREADY GRADED A+ | VERIFIED
ANSWERS | LATEST VERSION | JUST RELEASED
A SLP who has been working on improving speech intelligibility of non-
native speakers of English wanted to collected objective evidence that his
client's speech intelligibility was improving. She recruits four speech-
language pathology graduate students at the local university to watch
"before-and-after" videos of his accent clients and independently rate each
client's speech intelligibility. He finds that for the same client, the
intelligibility ratings varied from a 10% to a 60% across the four students. In
this situation, one can say that there is: ---------CORRECT ANSWER---------
--------low interjudge reliability
Gist: During an experiment, the researchers finds that many participants in
the experimental group attend church each Sunday and go to Sunday
school after church. They will do bible study and a discussion. None of the
control group attend church of Sunday School. At the end of the
experiment, the experimental group have improved significantly than the
control group. What can the researcher safely conclude from her study? ----
-----CORRECT ANSWER-----------------The experimental group's Sunday
school and church attendance on a weekly basis was a possible
confounding variable in the study, making it impossible to firmly conclude
that the NAP alone caused the difference in the performance of the
experimental and control groups.
A clinician in private practice often administers the Word Abilities Keystone
Evaluation—Upper Portion test to children with language disorders. One
day, she becomes curious about the "Typical score" of the children to
whom she administers the WAKE-UP. The clinician takes the WAKE-UP
scores of 17 children and lines them up in order from lowest to highest
score. The clinician concludes that the "typical" or average score on the
WAKE-UP is a 73. In terms of measures of central tendency, the average
,score calculated by the clinician is the: ---------CORRECT ANSWER----------
-------median.
A reviewer has published an article on treatment of vocal abuse in children.
The article has critically examined research studies with acceptable
methods and procedures and has made an integrative evaluation of
evidence for the different ways of treating vocal abuse. This evaluation
across studies involved a special kind of statistical analysis which is called
a: ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------meta-analysis
A clinical researcher, who has been using Van Riper's fluent stuttering
approach to treating stuttering in adults, realizes that its effectiveness is
unknown. He plans to design a study to find out if the method is effective.
To make a valid conclusion, the researcher must use: ---------CORRECT
ANSWER-----------------one of the experimental designs.
The belief that vocally abusive behaviors in humans lead to vocal nodules
and the resulting voice disorder is supported by: ---------CORRECT
ANSWER-----------------ex post facto or retrospective research.
An investigator is interested in evaluating the relative effects of three
treatments on the production of grammatical morphemes in children with
autism spectrum. The investigator also wishes to see if each treatment is
effective in its own right. The most appropriate experimental design for this
study is: ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------a group design with four
groups.
Too many treatment procedures to treat a single communication disorder is
one of the perplexities clinicians face. To survive this perplexity and to
select a treatment procedure for a given disorder, the clinician should: ------
,---CORRECT ANSWER-----------------read a meta-analytic report that is
available.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) includes,
among other mandates: ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------a uniform
federal standard for protecting the privacy of patients, to be followed by all
medical, nonmedical, and allied health personnel in the country.
Public Law 99-457: ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------increased
federal support for services to disabled children 3-6 years of age and
provided funding for infants and toddlers.
In most states, to work in the public schools, speech-language pathologists
and audiologists are required to possess: ---------CORRECT ANSWER------
-----------a state-issued credential from an agency such as the Department
of Education
Which one of the following is not true? ---------CORRECT ANSWER----------
-------To receive a Certificate of Clinical Competence in speech-language
pathology or audiology, a speech-language pathologist or audiologist
needs only to have a state-granted credential to work in public schools.
P.L. 94-142, the Education of the Handicapped Act, was later reauthorized
and retitled as: ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------The Individuals
with Disabilities Education Act.
Activities that may be carried out by trained SLPA (according to ASHA)
include: ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------implementing treatment
, plans developed by the supervising SLP, checking and maintaining
equipment, and collecting and documenting data for quality improvement.
Parents in a local school district have asked a clinician to give an in-service
on the IDEA (1997). The parents are interested in the content of the IDEA
regarding their parental rights, and so forth. Which one of the following
would not be accurate for the clinician to tell the parents at the in-service? -
--------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------The IDEA discourages serving
children with disabilities in general education classroom settings; rather, it
encourages school districts to create more specialized pull-out programs
for such children to best serve their needs.
Which statement is true about ASHA's special interest groups (SIGs)? ------
---CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Clinical Specialty Recognition is
available only in a few specialty areas.
According to ASHA standards, which one of the following activities would
not be within the scope of practice of a speech-language pathologist? -------
--CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Prescribing hearing aids for children
and adults with hearing losses.
P.L. 99-457 established mandated development of Individualized Family
Service Plans (IFSPs). Which one the following is not required to be
included in a child's IFSP? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------A
review of the plan at 12-month intervals or more frequently if needed.
The law stating that employers must provide special equipment for workers
with disabilities (e.g., relay stations for users of TDDs) is: ---------CORRECT
ANSWER-----------------The Americans with Disabilities Act
