SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY (SLP)
Praxis Exam Version 3 Questions and Answers
Graded A+ 2025
QUESTION
An SLP receives a referral regarding a 4-year-old boy who uses two words spontaneously and
functionally, who began walking at 3 years of age, and who responds to his name inconsistently.
On the basis of the information alone, the SLP can legitimately conclude that the child's
communication profile reflects
. a developmental delay
B. autism spectrum disorder
C. a chromosomal anomaly
D. a metabolic disorder
Answer:
Developmental Delay--- A 4-year-old typically developing child would have 4 word utterances
and would respond to his name consistently. Most children start to walk around age 1. Therefore,
the delay in walking, along with the delay in language, indicates a general developmental delay.
QUESTION
Successful use of an alternative and augmentative communication system is based on such
factors as selecting appropriate vocabulary, seating and positioning, and having a reliable method
of controlling the system. To facilitate the most effective use of the system, clinicians most often
advocate which of the following approaches?
A. Unimodal
B. Multimodal
C. Bimodal
D. Gestural
Answer:
Multi--- A multimodal approach offers more communicative options than any other of the
,approaches listed.
QUESTION
Which of the following is most important for an SLP to do when assessing a child who has an
acquired brain injury?
A. Evaluate pragmatics through a structured language test
B. Compare premorbid performance with present performance
C. Ensure administration of an intelligence test
D. Compare nonverbal performance with verbal performance
Answer:
Compare premorbid performance with present performance ------An SLP needs to know what
skills the child attained prior to the brain injury in order to select appropriate treatment goals.
QUESTION
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
Answer:
Duration of the preceding vowel---Research shows that vowel duration influences a listener's
perception of voicing. Vowels that precede unreleased voiced stop consonants are as much as 1.
5 times as long as vowels that precede voiceless stops.
QUESTION
When counseling the parents of a child who has an articulation disorder, the SLP can cite
developmental norms to show which of the following?
A. The child's misarticulation will interfere with reading skills.
B. A certain percentage of children of a certain age can correctly articulate the misarticulated
sound.
C. The misarticulation is caused by faulty learning.
D. The misarticulation is not physically based.
,Answer:
B. A certain percentage of children of a certain age can correctly articulate the misarticulated
sound.
--- Developmental norms demonstrate that a certain percentage of children of a given age can
correctly articulate certain sounds.
QUESTION
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
Answer:
cognitive--- The cognitive skills of a child at the one-word stage will most strongly influence the
child's speech-language responses, so language intervention for the child should take into
account the child's cognitive skills.
QUESTION
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
Answer:
A. tinnitus and a temporary threshold shift in high frequencies
---A single exposure of several hours duration to continuous music at a level of about 100 dB
SPL will most likely produce tinnitus and a temporary threshold shift in the high frequencies.
QUESTION
, According to research on the development of Brown's morphemes in young children, which of
the following is a determinant of acquisition order?
A. Phonological ease of production
B. Figurative-language ability
C. Semantic and syntactic complexity
D. Sequencing and segmentation strategies
Answer:
C. Semantic and syntactic complexity
---Brown's morphemes are acquired by children in an order that is determined by semantic and
syntactic complexity, with the simplest forms acquired first. The order of acquisition is typically
followed by all children.
QUESTION
John is a 4 1/2 year old whose consonantal inventory includes word-initial [ w ], [ m ], [ n ], [ p
], [ b ], [ t ], [ d ], and [ f ]. He uses [ t ] for /k/, [ d ] for /ɡ/, [ b ] for /v/, and [ f ] for /θ/. He
produces no consonant clusters. His word-final consonantal inventory consists of [m] and [n].
His word shape inventory includes V, CV, CVC, and CVCV. The information given most
strongly indicates that the child has
A. childhood apraxia of speech
B. an oral motor impairment
C. delayed phonological development
D. a significant high-frequency hearing loss
Answer:
delay phono. dev. ---The pattern describes the phonological pattern of a younger child. The
errors are consistent, unlike childhood apraxia of speech, which has an inconsistent error pattern.
Children at this age typically have mastered consonant clusters and use word-final consonants.
QUESTION
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
Praxis Exam Version 3 Questions and Answers
Graded A+ 2025
QUESTION
An SLP receives a referral regarding a 4-year-old boy who uses two words spontaneously and
functionally, who began walking at 3 years of age, and who responds to his name inconsistently.
On the basis of the information alone, the SLP can legitimately conclude that the child's
communication profile reflects
. a developmental delay
B. autism spectrum disorder
C. a chromosomal anomaly
D. a metabolic disorder
Answer:
Developmental Delay--- A 4-year-old typically developing child would have 4 word utterances
and would respond to his name consistently. Most children start to walk around age 1. Therefore,
the delay in walking, along with the delay in language, indicates a general developmental delay.
QUESTION
Successful use of an alternative and augmentative communication system is based on such
factors as selecting appropriate vocabulary, seating and positioning, and having a reliable method
of controlling the system. To facilitate the most effective use of the system, clinicians most often
advocate which of the following approaches?
A. Unimodal
B. Multimodal
C. Bimodal
D. Gestural
Answer:
Multi--- A multimodal approach offers more communicative options than any other of the
,approaches listed.
QUESTION
Which of the following is most important for an SLP to do when assessing a child who has an
acquired brain injury?
A. Evaluate pragmatics through a structured language test
B. Compare premorbid performance with present performance
C. Ensure administration of an intelligence test
D. Compare nonverbal performance with verbal performance
Answer:
Compare premorbid performance with present performance ------An SLP needs to know what
skills the child attained prior to the brain injury in order to select appropriate treatment goals.
QUESTION
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
Answer:
Duration of the preceding vowel---Research shows that vowel duration influences a listener's
perception of voicing. Vowels that precede unreleased voiced stop consonants are as much as 1.
5 times as long as vowels that precede voiceless stops.
QUESTION
When counseling the parents of a child who has an articulation disorder, the SLP can cite
developmental norms to show which of the following?
A. The child's misarticulation will interfere with reading skills.
B. A certain percentage of children of a certain age can correctly articulate the misarticulated
sound.
C. The misarticulation is caused by faulty learning.
D. The misarticulation is not physically based.
,Answer:
B. A certain percentage of children of a certain age can correctly articulate the misarticulated
sound.
--- Developmental norms demonstrate that a certain percentage of children of a given age can
correctly articulate certain sounds.
QUESTION
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
Answer:
cognitive--- The cognitive skills of a child at the one-word stage will most strongly influence the
child's speech-language responses, so language intervention for the child should take into
account the child's cognitive skills.
QUESTION
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
Answer:
A. tinnitus and a temporary threshold shift in high frequencies
---A single exposure of several hours duration to continuous music at a level of about 100 dB
SPL will most likely produce tinnitus and a temporary threshold shift in the high frequencies.
QUESTION
, According to research on the development of Brown's morphemes in young children, which of
the following is a determinant of acquisition order?
A. Phonological ease of production
B. Figurative-language ability
C. Semantic and syntactic complexity
D. Sequencing and segmentation strategies
Answer:
C. Semantic and syntactic complexity
---Brown's morphemes are acquired by children in an order that is determined by semantic and
syntactic complexity, with the simplest forms acquired first. The order of acquisition is typically
followed by all children.
QUESTION
John is a 4 1/2 year old whose consonantal inventory includes word-initial [ w ], [ m ], [ n ], [ p
], [ b ], [ t ], [ d ], and [ f ]. He uses [ t ] for /k/, [ d ] for /ɡ/, [ b ] for /v/, and [ f ] for /θ/. He
produces no consonant clusters. His word-final consonantal inventory consists of [m] and [n].
His word shape inventory includes V, CV, CVC, and CVCV. The information given most
strongly indicates that the child has
A. childhood apraxia of speech
B. an oral motor impairment
C. delayed phonological development
D. a significant high-frequency hearing loss
Answer:
delay phono. dev. ---The pattern describes the phonological pattern of a younger child. The
errors are consistent, unlike childhood apraxia of speech, which has an inconsistent error pattern.
Children at this age typically have mastered consonant clusters and use word-final consonants.
QUESTION
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
