SLP PRAXIS PRACTICE Question and Answer
2026 | Complete Certification Review Guide
| Grade A+
• Phonetics -✓✓Description and classification of speech sounds
• Phonology -✓✓Patterns of phonemes that occur in a language
• Phonotactics -✓✓Description of allowed combinations of phonemes
in a particular language
• Phonological Disorder -✓✓A language-based disorder in which a
person has difficulty organizing speech sounds in a system of contrasts,
resulting in error patterns
• Phonations -✓✓Age 0:0 - 0:1
Reflexive, vocalizations, produced with a relatively closed mouth,
dominate
• Cooing -✓✓Age 0:2 - 0:3
Velar and uvular consonant and back vowel-like sounds are produced;
primitive syllables may be perceived but there is no timing element
• Expansion -✓✓Age 0:4-0:6
, Vocal play is predominant with a wide variety of productions, including
squeals, yells, and vowels. Some CV are produced, but tend to be slow
and irregular in timing and are not canonical. Infants show increasing
control over vocal mechanisms.
• Reduplicated Babbling -✓✓Age 0:7-0:9
The beginning of canonical babbling, VC syllables are produced with a
true consonant and fully resonant vowel. The same VC is repeated
multiple times. Sounds produced are primary stops, nasals, and glides,
with place of articulation being primarily bilabial and alveolar. Vowels
are typically lax.
• Variegated Babbling -✓✓Age 0:10-1:0
CV syllables are produced with various consonants and vowels,
variegated syllables are produced with adult-like prosody.
• 4 Basic Speech Processes -✓✓Respiration
Phonation
Articulation
Resonance
• Respiration -✓✓The energy source for speech production, composed
of the lungs, bronchi, trachea, larynx, air passages of the pharynx, nose,
and sometimes mouth, rib cage, diaphragm
2026 | Complete Certification Review Guide
| Grade A+
• Phonetics -✓✓Description and classification of speech sounds
• Phonology -✓✓Patterns of phonemes that occur in a language
• Phonotactics -✓✓Description of allowed combinations of phonemes
in a particular language
• Phonological Disorder -✓✓A language-based disorder in which a
person has difficulty organizing speech sounds in a system of contrasts,
resulting in error patterns
• Phonations -✓✓Age 0:0 - 0:1
Reflexive, vocalizations, produced with a relatively closed mouth,
dominate
• Cooing -✓✓Age 0:2 - 0:3
Velar and uvular consonant and back vowel-like sounds are produced;
primitive syllables may be perceived but there is no timing element
• Expansion -✓✓Age 0:4-0:6
, Vocal play is predominant with a wide variety of productions, including
squeals, yells, and vowels. Some CV are produced, but tend to be slow
and irregular in timing and are not canonical. Infants show increasing
control over vocal mechanisms.
• Reduplicated Babbling -✓✓Age 0:7-0:9
The beginning of canonical babbling, VC syllables are produced with a
true consonant and fully resonant vowel. The same VC is repeated
multiple times. Sounds produced are primary stops, nasals, and glides,
with place of articulation being primarily bilabial and alveolar. Vowels
are typically lax.
• Variegated Babbling -✓✓Age 0:10-1:0
CV syllables are produced with various consonants and vowels,
variegated syllables are produced with adult-like prosody.
• 4 Basic Speech Processes -✓✓Respiration
Phonation
Articulation
Resonance
• Respiration -✓✓The energy source for speech production, composed
of the lungs, bronchi, trachea, larynx, air passages of the pharynx, nose,
and sometimes mouth, rib cage, diaphragm
