CETP Exam Prep questions and answers
with solutions
Primary motor innveration to the larynx and velum is provided by which
cranial nerve? - ANSWER Cranial nerve X (Vagus)
Fela is a third-grade student in a public school. She is a speaker of
African American Vernacular English (AAVE) who has difficulty with the
Standard American English (SAE) dialect used in her classroom. Her
teacher believes that Fela's language skills are affecting her academic
performance and has referred her to the school's speech -language
pathologist. Which of the following is an appropriate rationale for
providing language intervention for Fela?
Select all that apply.
A.It will likely foster better communication with Fela's linguistically and
culturally diverse peers.
B.It will likely improve Fela's code-switching ability with her teacher and
other adult speakers of SAE.
C.It may expand Fela's later academic and vocational opportunities.
D.It will likely lead Fela to adopt SAE as her primary dialect. - ANSWER A,
B, C
,This investigation was motivated by observations that when persons
with dysarthria increase loudness, their speech improves. Some studies
have indicated that this improvement may be related to an increase of
prosodic variation. Studies have reported an increase of fundamental
frequency (F0) variation with increased loudness, but there has been no
examination of the relation of loudness manipulation to specific
prosodic variables that are known to aid a listener in parsing out
meaningful information. This study examined the relation of vocal
loudness production to selected acoustic variables known to inform
listeners of phrase and sentence boundaries: specifically, F0 declination
and final-word lengthening. Ten young, healthy women were audio -
recorded while they read aloud a paragraph at what each considered
normal loudness, twice-normal loudness, and half-normal loudness.
Results showed that there was a statistically - ANSWER C. Vocal loudness
A client exhibits weakness, atrophy, and fasciculation's of the right side
of the tongue and lower face. The client also has right vocal -fold
weakness and nasal regurgitation of fluid when swallowing. These
problems are the result of damage to which part o f the nervous system?
A. Brain stem
B. Cerebellum
C. Left cerebral cortex
D. Right cerebral cortex - ANSWER A. Brain stem
- Weakness, atrophy, fasciculation's, and the other described symptoms
are all consistent with lower motor neurone locus and suspected cranial
nerve abnormalities, which emerge directly from the brainstem.
,Hearing loss in infants who are born with a cleft palate is usually related
to which of the following?
A. The infant's ability to create positive pressure in the oral cavity
B. Malformation of the middle-ear ossicles associated with malformation
of the palate
C. Eustachian tube dysfunction
D. Cochlear dysfunction - ANSWER C. Eustachian tube dysfunction
- Eustachian tube dysfunction, a major factor contributing to middle -ear
disease and conductive hearing loss, is nearly universal in infants with
cleft palate
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 D. Duration of the
preceding vowel
- vowel duration influences a listener's perception of voicing
- vowels that precede unreleased voiced stop consonants are as much as
1.5x as long as vowels that precede voiceless stops
, 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 B. cognitive skills
- the cognitive skills at the one-word stage will most strongly influence
the child's speech-language responses
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
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
with solutions
Primary motor innveration to the larynx and velum is provided by which
cranial nerve? - ANSWER Cranial nerve X (Vagus)
Fela is a third-grade student in a public school. She is a speaker of
African American Vernacular English (AAVE) who has difficulty with the
Standard American English (SAE) dialect used in her classroom. Her
teacher believes that Fela's language skills are affecting her academic
performance and has referred her to the school's speech -language
pathologist. Which of the following is an appropriate rationale for
providing language intervention for Fela?
Select all that apply.
A.It will likely foster better communication with Fela's linguistically and
culturally diverse peers.
B.It will likely improve Fela's code-switching ability with her teacher and
other adult speakers of SAE.
C.It may expand Fela's later academic and vocational opportunities.
D.It will likely lead Fela to adopt SAE as her primary dialect. - ANSWER A,
B, C
,This investigation was motivated by observations that when persons
with dysarthria increase loudness, their speech improves. Some studies
have indicated that this improvement may be related to an increase of
prosodic variation. Studies have reported an increase of fundamental
frequency (F0) variation with increased loudness, but there has been no
examination of the relation of loudness manipulation to specific
prosodic variables that are known to aid a listener in parsing out
meaningful information. This study examined the relation of vocal
loudness production to selected acoustic variables known to inform
listeners of phrase and sentence boundaries: specifically, F0 declination
and final-word lengthening. Ten young, healthy women were audio -
recorded while they read aloud a paragraph at what each considered
normal loudness, twice-normal loudness, and half-normal loudness.
Results showed that there was a statistically - ANSWER C. Vocal loudness
A client exhibits weakness, atrophy, and fasciculation's of the right side
of the tongue and lower face. The client also has right vocal -fold
weakness and nasal regurgitation of fluid when swallowing. These
problems are the result of damage to which part o f the nervous system?
A. Brain stem
B. Cerebellum
C. Left cerebral cortex
D. Right cerebral cortex - ANSWER A. Brain stem
- Weakness, atrophy, fasciculation's, and the other described symptoms
are all consistent with lower motor neurone locus and suspected cranial
nerve abnormalities, which emerge directly from the brainstem.
,Hearing loss in infants who are born with a cleft palate is usually related
to which of the following?
A. The infant's ability to create positive pressure in the oral cavity
B. Malformation of the middle-ear ossicles associated with malformation
of the palate
C. Eustachian tube dysfunction
D. Cochlear dysfunction - ANSWER C. Eustachian tube dysfunction
- Eustachian tube dysfunction, a major factor contributing to middle -ear
disease and conductive hearing loss, is nearly universal in infants with
cleft palate
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 D. Duration of the
preceding vowel
- vowel duration influences a listener's perception of voicing
- vowels that precede unreleased voiced stop consonants are as much as
1.5x as long as vowels that precede voiceless stops
, 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 B. cognitive skills
- the cognitive skills at the one-word stage will most strongly influence
the child's speech-language responses
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
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
