SLPA NC BOARD Exam UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
What are the 5 Objectives of Intervention? - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Client should
ahow improvement not just in a clincial setting; Progress should be generalized to real-world
environments.
2. Should be automatic
3. Should be self-monitered
4. Shoul make optimum progress in minimum amount of time
5. Interventionshould be sensitive to personal and cultural characteristics.
What is a treatment protocol? - CORRECT ANSWER Written guideline that specifies
therapy frequency, duration, and type of service. Also has goals, skilled interventions,
antecedents, cues/prompts, and consequences used during the session.
As an SLPA, why is it important to be culturally competent? - CORRECT
ANSWER As an SLPA, you are able to treat the client to the best of your ability, while
being sensitive to any cultural differences that you may have to adapt to in order to treat the
client properly.
What are the different levels of cueing and what do they include? - CORRECT
ANSWER 1. Model- show child exactly what to do
2. Verbal Model- tell child exactly what to do
3. Tactile Model- use touch to help the child
4. Verbal Prompt- start to say what the child is supposed to say
5. Verbal Re-Cue- repeat your verbal cues, expanding on it as needed
6. Verbal Cue- tell the child what to do, ex. "Find the ball"
7. Visual Cue- use visual support to cue "pictures"
8. Gestural Cue- use gestures to help the child
9. Independent- no help given
,What is Apraxia? - CORRECT ANSWER Acquired oral motor speech disorder
affecting an individual's ability to translate conscious speech pairs into motor plans, which
results in limited difficult speech ability.
What are the components of a SOAP Note? - CORRECT ANSWER (S): subjective-
data that includes the concerns of the family member(s) or individual and subjective
observations by the SLP/SLPA
(O): objective- data includes specific clinical findings, test results, and a summary of the data
collected during the therapy session
(A): assessment- compares the client's performance across sessions
(P): plan- states the course of action to be followed
What is Baseline Data? - CORRECT ANSWER Data before intervention starts
What is a phonological disorder? - CORRECT ANSWER Speech sound disorder that
focuses on predictable rule based on errors such as fronting, stopping, and final consonant
deletion.
What is the difference between extension and expansion? - CORRECT
ANSWER Extension- add more information to the child's utterances.
Expansion- keep the child's word order the same we just expand it slightly to make the
utterances grammatically correct.
What is the difference between communication and language? - CORRECT
ANSWER Communication- exchange of ideas, information or messages from one
person to another.
Language- how we express what we think or how we feel.
What are some non linguistic cues? - CORRECT ANSWER Gestures, body posture,
facial expressions, eye contact, head and body movement, physical distance (proxemics)
, What are a few compensatory strategies used for stuttering (disfluent speech)? - CORRECT
ANSWER 1. Sliding or pullouts
2. Relaxing the stutter
3. Catching the stutter
4. Intentional stuttering
5. Easy stuttering/fluent stuttering
6. Bouncing
7. Cancellation
8. Preparatory set
9. Light contact
10. Slower speech rates
11. Relaxed breath patterns
12. Slow/stretched speech
13. Easy onset
14. Pausing and chunking
What is an articulation disorder? - CORRECT ANSWER Difficulty in the production
of individual speech sounds
What is an language disorder? - CORRECT ANSWER Difficulty in comprehension,
speaking, writing, and other forms of language.
Define a fluency disorder - CORRECT ANSWER "Bumpy speech" characterized by
non-smooth and interrupted speech
What is the purpose of communication? - CORRECT ANSWER Processing and
passing of messages between sender and receiver effectively
What 4 systems do we need for speech? - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Respiratory
2. Phonatory
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
What are the 5 Objectives of Intervention? - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Client should
ahow improvement not just in a clincial setting; Progress should be generalized to real-world
environments.
2. Should be automatic
3. Should be self-monitered
4. Shoul make optimum progress in minimum amount of time
5. Interventionshould be sensitive to personal and cultural characteristics.
What is a treatment protocol? - CORRECT ANSWER Written guideline that specifies
therapy frequency, duration, and type of service. Also has goals, skilled interventions,
antecedents, cues/prompts, and consequences used during the session.
As an SLPA, why is it important to be culturally competent? - CORRECT
ANSWER As an SLPA, you are able to treat the client to the best of your ability, while
being sensitive to any cultural differences that you may have to adapt to in order to treat the
client properly.
What are the different levels of cueing and what do they include? - CORRECT
ANSWER 1. Model- show child exactly what to do
2. Verbal Model- tell child exactly what to do
3. Tactile Model- use touch to help the child
4. Verbal Prompt- start to say what the child is supposed to say
5. Verbal Re-Cue- repeat your verbal cues, expanding on it as needed
6. Verbal Cue- tell the child what to do, ex. "Find the ball"
7. Visual Cue- use visual support to cue "pictures"
8. Gestural Cue- use gestures to help the child
9. Independent- no help given
,What is Apraxia? - CORRECT ANSWER Acquired oral motor speech disorder
affecting an individual's ability to translate conscious speech pairs into motor plans, which
results in limited difficult speech ability.
What are the components of a SOAP Note? - CORRECT ANSWER (S): subjective-
data that includes the concerns of the family member(s) or individual and subjective
observations by the SLP/SLPA
(O): objective- data includes specific clinical findings, test results, and a summary of the data
collected during the therapy session
(A): assessment- compares the client's performance across sessions
(P): plan- states the course of action to be followed
What is Baseline Data? - CORRECT ANSWER Data before intervention starts
What is a phonological disorder? - CORRECT ANSWER Speech sound disorder that
focuses on predictable rule based on errors such as fronting, stopping, and final consonant
deletion.
What is the difference between extension and expansion? - CORRECT
ANSWER Extension- add more information to the child's utterances.
Expansion- keep the child's word order the same we just expand it slightly to make the
utterances grammatically correct.
What is the difference between communication and language? - CORRECT
ANSWER Communication- exchange of ideas, information or messages from one
person to another.
Language- how we express what we think or how we feel.
What are some non linguistic cues? - CORRECT ANSWER Gestures, body posture,
facial expressions, eye contact, head and body movement, physical distance (proxemics)
, What are a few compensatory strategies used for stuttering (disfluent speech)? - CORRECT
ANSWER 1. Sliding or pullouts
2. Relaxing the stutter
3. Catching the stutter
4. Intentional stuttering
5. Easy stuttering/fluent stuttering
6. Bouncing
7. Cancellation
8. Preparatory set
9. Light contact
10. Slower speech rates
11. Relaxed breath patterns
12. Slow/stretched speech
13. Easy onset
14. Pausing and chunking
What is an articulation disorder? - CORRECT ANSWER Difficulty in the production
of individual speech sounds
What is an language disorder? - CORRECT ANSWER Difficulty in comprehension,
speaking, writing, and other forms of language.
Define a fluency disorder - CORRECT ANSWER "Bumpy speech" characterized by
non-smooth and interrupted speech
What is the purpose of communication? - CORRECT ANSWER Processing and
passing of messages between sender and receiver effectively
What 4 systems do we need for speech? - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Respiratory
2. Phonatory
