PRAXIS TEST 3, PRAXIS TEST 4, PRAXIS SLP, ETS
PRAXIS REVIEW 2, PRAXIS REVIEW TEST 1 & 2
A concerned mother brings her 3-week-old child to you because he is having difficulties
breathing. You refer the mother and her child to a physician. Upon laryngeal
examination, the physician notices that a membrane has grown across the anterior
portion of the glottis. The physician informs the mother that this problem may be either
congenital or acquired and that surgery is required to remove the membrane. According
to the physician, the diagnosis would be
Hyperkeratosis.
B.
Leukoplakia.
C.
Laryngeal web.
D.
Papilloma. - answers :c.
Laryngeal web.
When a person reads aloud a brief printed passage, the frequency of stuttering may
decrease from the first to subsequent readings. Select the statement that is true of this
phenomenon.
A.
It is known as the adaptation effect.
B.
Reduction in stuttering frequency is highest on the 10th reading.
C.
The effect transfers from one reading passage to another.
D.
The magnitude of the effect increases with increasing intervals between the oral
readings. - answers :a.
It is known as the adaptation effect.
You are evaluating a 5-year-old boy whose mother has a history of alcohol abuse while
she was carrying her son. In your assessment, you would look for specific speech and
,language problems; in addition, you would look for which of the following positive or
negative signs?
A.
Normal motor and intellectual development, normal play activities, and normal facial and
skull features
B.
Language problems, but no speech problems, coupled with good eye contact and
generally compliant behavior
C.
Lack of gestures, good eye contact, and lack of attachment to new people
D.
Low birth weight and length, behavior problems, and possible swallowing difficulties -
answers :d.
Low birth weight and length, behavior problems, and possible swallowing difficulties
In standardizing a test of language skills in children, the investigator asked two experts
to judge each item on the test to make sure that all items were relevant to children's
language skills. This is a method of establishing the
A.
Concurrent validity.
B.
Content validity.
C.
Construct validity.
D.
Predictive validity. - answers :b.
Content validity.
You give a new test of cognition to patients on your hospital caseload who have been
diagnosed with alzheimer's disease. You find a vast spread in the scores of the patients,
depending upon how advanced their alzheimer's disease is. You want to determine the
range of scores of your patients. What can you calculate to do this?
A.
The difference between the highest and the lowest scores of the patients to whom the
test has been administered
B.
,The lowest and highest 25% of the scores
C.
The middle 50% of the scores
D.
The middle 50% of the scores divided by 2 - answers :a.
The difference between the highest and the lowest scores of the patients to whom the
test has been administered
You are seeing a 12-year-old girl at the local junior high school. Her scores on the
peabody picture vocabulary test-fourth edition and the expressive vocabulary test-
second edition were both 2 years below age level. She has many friends and is well
liked by her peers. Academically, she struggles with the vocabulary in her textbooks.
Therapy should focus primarily on remediation of
A.
Pragmatic skills.
B.
Discourse.
C.
Morphologic skills.
D.
Semantic skills. - answers :d.
Semantic skills.
You are working in a special needs school with children who are at risk for language
disorders. A teacher referred to you a young boy whose symptoms include low birth
weight, microcephaly, low-set ears, micrognathia, wide eyes, and excessive drooling.
His behaviors include hyperactivity, tantrums, aggression, repetitive movements,
feeding problems, catlike meowing, as well as severe cognitive, speech, and motor
delays. The case history indicates that this syndrome is partially due to the deletion of
the short arm of chromosome 5. Which syndrome does this child display?
A.
Bantis
B.
Cruveilhier-baumgarten
C.
Cri du chat
, D.
Mobius - answers :c.
Cri du chat
A child is referred to you by his preschool teacher. This child, jaden, is 4 years 5 months
old and has transferred from out of state. In his previous state, jaden was reportedly
assessed by a speech-language pathologist who recommended that he receive
intervention before kindergarten. According to the report from the previous clinician, he
uses the phonological processes of gliding, consonant-cluster reduction, stopping,
reduplication, and final-consonant deletion. Your assessment confirms the presence of
these phonological processes. You would begin treatment by addressing
A.
Final-consonant deletion.
B.
Gliding.
C.
Consonant-cluster reduction.
D.
Reduplication. - answers :d.
Reduplication.
A thrombus is a
A.
Traveling blood clot that blocks the flow of blood.
B.
Stationary blood clot that blocks the flow of blood.
C.
Cause of aphasia in women only.
D.
Bleeding vessel. - answers :b.
Stationary blood clot that blocks the flow of blood.
You are conducting therapy with a kindergartener with a speech sound disorder and
language impairment. He has deficient phonological awareness skills, and you are
targeting these skills in therapy along with other treatment targets. Which of the
following are you working on as part of phonological awareness treatment?
A.
PRAXIS REVIEW 2, PRAXIS REVIEW TEST 1 & 2
A concerned mother brings her 3-week-old child to you because he is having difficulties
breathing. You refer the mother and her child to a physician. Upon laryngeal
examination, the physician notices that a membrane has grown across the anterior
portion of the glottis. The physician informs the mother that this problem may be either
congenital or acquired and that surgery is required to remove the membrane. According
to the physician, the diagnosis would be
Hyperkeratosis.
B.
Leukoplakia.
C.
Laryngeal web.
D.
Papilloma. - answers :c.
Laryngeal web.
When a person reads aloud a brief printed passage, the frequency of stuttering may
decrease from the first to subsequent readings. Select the statement that is true of this
phenomenon.
A.
It is known as the adaptation effect.
B.
Reduction in stuttering frequency is highest on the 10th reading.
C.
The effect transfers from one reading passage to another.
D.
The magnitude of the effect increases with increasing intervals between the oral
readings. - answers :a.
It is known as the adaptation effect.
You are evaluating a 5-year-old boy whose mother has a history of alcohol abuse while
she was carrying her son. In your assessment, you would look for specific speech and
,language problems; in addition, you would look for which of the following positive or
negative signs?
A.
Normal motor and intellectual development, normal play activities, and normal facial and
skull features
B.
Language problems, but no speech problems, coupled with good eye contact and
generally compliant behavior
C.
Lack of gestures, good eye contact, and lack of attachment to new people
D.
Low birth weight and length, behavior problems, and possible swallowing difficulties -
answers :d.
Low birth weight and length, behavior problems, and possible swallowing difficulties
In standardizing a test of language skills in children, the investigator asked two experts
to judge each item on the test to make sure that all items were relevant to children's
language skills. This is a method of establishing the
A.
Concurrent validity.
B.
Content validity.
C.
Construct validity.
D.
Predictive validity. - answers :b.
Content validity.
You give a new test of cognition to patients on your hospital caseload who have been
diagnosed with alzheimer's disease. You find a vast spread in the scores of the patients,
depending upon how advanced their alzheimer's disease is. You want to determine the
range of scores of your patients. What can you calculate to do this?
A.
The difference between the highest and the lowest scores of the patients to whom the
test has been administered
B.
,The lowest and highest 25% of the scores
C.
The middle 50% of the scores
D.
The middle 50% of the scores divided by 2 - answers :a.
The difference between the highest and the lowest scores of the patients to whom the
test has been administered
You are seeing a 12-year-old girl at the local junior high school. Her scores on the
peabody picture vocabulary test-fourth edition and the expressive vocabulary test-
second edition were both 2 years below age level. She has many friends and is well
liked by her peers. Academically, she struggles with the vocabulary in her textbooks.
Therapy should focus primarily on remediation of
A.
Pragmatic skills.
B.
Discourse.
C.
Morphologic skills.
D.
Semantic skills. - answers :d.
Semantic skills.
You are working in a special needs school with children who are at risk for language
disorders. A teacher referred to you a young boy whose symptoms include low birth
weight, microcephaly, low-set ears, micrognathia, wide eyes, and excessive drooling.
His behaviors include hyperactivity, tantrums, aggression, repetitive movements,
feeding problems, catlike meowing, as well as severe cognitive, speech, and motor
delays. The case history indicates that this syndrome is partially due to the deletion of
the short arm of chromosome 5. Which syndrome does this child display?
A.
Bantis
B.
Cruveilhier-baumgarten
C.
Cri du chat
, D.
Mobius - answers :c.
Cri du chat
A child is referred to you by his preschool teacher. This child, jaden, is 4 years 5 months
old and has transferred from out of state. In his previous state, jaden was reportedly
assessed by a speech-language pathologist who recommended that he receive
intervention before kindergarten. According to the report from the previous clinician, he
uses the phonological processes of gliding, consonant-cluster reduction, stopping,
reduplication, and final-consonant deletion. Your assessment confirms the presence of
these phonological processes. You would begin treatment by addressing
A.
Final-consonant deletion.
B.
Gliding.
C.
Consonant-cluster reduction.
D.
Reduplication. - answers :d.
Reduplication.
A thrombus is a
A.
Traveling blood clot that blocks the flow of blood.
B.
Stationary blood clot that blocks the flow of blood.
C.
Cause of aphasia in women only.
D.
Bleeding vessel. - answers :b.
Stationary blood clot that blocks the flow of blood.
You are conducting therapy with a kindergartener with a speech sound disorder and
language impairment. He has deficient phonological awareness skills, and you are
targeting these skills in therapy along with other treatment targets. Which of the
following are you working on as part of phonological awareness treatment?
A.
