MEDICAL SLP PRAXIS PRACTICE EXAM
NEWEST EXAM 2025 | ALL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS | GRADED A+ | VERIFIED
ANSWERS | LATEST EXAM
An influenza epidemic that began last month may cause a spike in new
cases. The occurrence of new cases of a disease in a population over a
specific period of time refers to _________.
a. Prevalence
b. Incidence
c. Both
d. Neither ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------b. Incidence
Incidence is a measure of occurrence of new cases
Which cranial nerve is responsible for the motor function of mastication?
a. Abducens nerve
b. Trigeminal nerve
c. Vagus nerve
d. Trochlear nerve
e. None of the above ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------b.
Trigeminal nerve
A ___________ type of assessment is used to identify what the client can
and cannot do. This assessment type may or may not be standardized.
a. Norm-referenced
b. Informal assessment
c. Criterion-referenced
d. None of the above
,e. All of the above ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------c. Criterion
assessment
Which type of validity measures the degree to which a new test correlates
with an established test of known validity?
a. Concurrent validity
b. Criterion validity
c. Content validity
d. Predictive validity ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------a.
Concurrent validity
By 48 months, a child's speech is about ______% intelligible
a. 80%
b. 50%
c. 100%
d. 75% ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------c. 100%
Ankyloglossia may be an organic articulation or phonological disorder.
Ankyloglosia is a medical term for what?
a. Cleft palate
b. Tongue spots
c. Enlarged tongue
d. Tongue tie ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------d. Tongue tie
After conducting a language sample on a conversational language user
(e.g. an older child) what pragmatic component may be used to evaluate
'complete ties'?
a. Conversational repairs
,b. Cohesive adequacy
c. Eye contact
d. Attention
e. All of the above ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------b. Cohesive
adequacy
Children who present with stuttering-like disfluencies are likely to recover
completely up until about what age?
a. 3 years old
b. 9 years old
c. 6 years old
d. 2.5 years old ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------c. 6 years old
Eye movements, twitching, and phonation breaks are over examples of
________ behaviors.
a. Core behaviors
b. Secondary behaviors
c. Primary behaviors
d. None of the above ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------b.
Secondary behaviors
Muscle tension dysphonia is a condition that occurs as a result of
inappropriate use of the muscles around the larynx. Which etiology would
muscle tension dysphonia be classified as?
a. Neurogenic
b. Organic
c. Functional
d. None of the above ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------a.
Functional
, Johnny was evaluated by the school SLP. He consistently says "top" for
'stop' and "poon" for 'spoon'. His mistakes are characteristics of which
phonological processing errors?
a. Assimilation processes
b. Substitution processes
c. Syllable structure processes
d. Metathesis
e. None of the above ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------c. Syllable
structure processes
The presence of excess air through the nasal cavity on oral consonants
describes which type of resonance?
a. Hypernasality
b. Nasal emission
c. Hyponasality
d. Cul-de-sac resonance ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------a.
Hypernasality
Which motor speech disorder is characterized by inconsistent articulation
errors, groping, and difficulty with repetition tasks of increased complexity?
a. Dysarthria
b. Anarthria
c. Apraxia of speech
d. Aphasia ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------c. Apraxia of speech
Which motor speech disorder is characterized by a loss of coordination of
articulators despite having normal muscle control?
a. Dysarthria
b. Anarthria
NEWEST EXAM 2025 | ALL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS | GRADED A+ | VERIFIED
ANSWERS | LATEST EXAM
An influenza epidemic that began last month may cause a spike in new
cases. The occurrence of new cases of a disease in a population over a
specific period of time refers to _________.
a. Prevalence
b. Incidence
c. Both
d. Neither ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------b. Incidence
Incidence is a measure of occurrence of new cases
Which cranial nerve is responsible for the motor function of mastication?
a. Abducens nerve
b. Trigeminal nerve
c. Vagus nerve
d. Trochlear nerve
e. None of the above ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------b.
Trigeminal nerve
A ___________ type of assessment is used to identify what the client can
and cannot do. This assessment type may or may not be standardized.
a. Norm-referenced
b. Informal assessment
c. Criterion-referenced
d. None of the above
,e. All of the above ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------c. Criterion
assessment
Which type of validity measures the degree to which a new test correlates
with an established test of known validity?
a. Concurrent validity
b. Criterion validity
c. Content validity
d. Predictive validity ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------a.
Concurrent validity
By 48 months, a child's speech is about ______% intelligible
a. 80%
b. 50%
c. 100%
d. 75% ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------c. 100%
Ankyloglossia may be an organic articulation or phonological disorder.
Ankyloglosia is a medical term for what?
a. Cleft palate
b. Tongue spots
c. Enlarged tongue
d. Tongue tie ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------d. Tongue tie
After conducting a language sample on a conversational language user
(e.g. an older child) what pragmatic component may be used to evaluate
'complete ties'?
a. Conversational repairs
,b. Cohesive adequacy
c. Eye contact
d. Attention
e. All of the above ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------b. Cohesive
adequacy
Children who present with stuttering-like disfluencies are likely to recover
completely up until about what age?
a. 3 years old
b. 9 years old
c. 6 years old
d. 2.5 years old ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------c. 6 years old
Eye movements, twitching, and phonation breaks are over examples of
________ behaviors.
a. Core behaviors
b. Secondary behaviors
c. Primary behaviors
d. None of the above ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------b.
Secondary behaviors
Muscle tension dysphonia is a condition that occurs as a result of
inappropriate use of the muscles around the larynx. Which etiology would
muscle tension dysphonia be classified as?
a. Neurogenic
b. Organic
c. Functional
d. None of the above ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------a.
Functional
, Johnny was evaluated by the school SLP. He consistently says "top" for
'stop' and "poon" for 'spoon'. His mistakes are characteristics of which
phonological processing errors?
a. Assimilation processes
b. Substitution processes
c. Syllable structure processes
d. Metathesis
e. None of the above ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------c. Syllable
structure processes
The presence of excess air through the nasal cavity on oral consonants
describes which type of resonance?
a. Hypernasality
b. Nasal emission
c. Hyponasality
d. Cul-de-sac resonance ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------a.
Hypernasality
Which motor speech disorder is characterized by inconsistent articulation
errors, groping, and difficulty with repetition tasks of increased complexity?
a. Dysarthria
b. Anarthria
c. Apraxia of speech
d. Aphasia ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------c. Apraxia of speech
Which motor speech disorder is characterized by a loss of coordination of
articulators despite having normal muscle control?
a. Dysarthria
b. Anarthria
