Praxis SLP Practice Exam B questions
well answered graded A+
a. traumatic brain injury - correct answer ✔✔1. A child has been referred to a SLP for a
comprehensive language evaluation, with reports of "global language problems". Following
evaluation, the SLP determines that the child is demonstrating word-finding difficulties,
comprehension deficits and disorganized language, in addition to deficits in attention and
executive functioning. Which of the following disorders does the child MOST LIKELY
demonstrate?
a. traumatic brain injury
b. cerebral palsy
c. autism spectrum disorder
d. Down syndrome
b. incomplete episode - correct answer ✔✔2. A SLP has been working on narrative structure
with a middle school student on the SLPs caseload. Recently, the child wrote a story about her
weekend, which reads "My family was going to a friend's birthday party. We were late to the
birthday party." Using this information, the SLP would like to assign a narrative episode level to
this child's story. Which of the following narrative levels BEST describes the child's story?
a. abbreviated episode
b. incomplete episode
c. complete episode
d. action sequence
d. refer the friend to another SLP who has licensure in the state in which Jospeh lives - correct
answer ✔✔3. Andy is a SLP who has recently branched out into providing tele practice services
,to in-state clients who are unable to be treated at his private practice center. Joseph is a friend
of Andy's who lives in another state in which Andy does not have licensure and has just heard
about Andy's new service delivery. Jospeh asks Andy to treat his mother, who has Wernicke's
aphasia, as Jospeh would like his mother to receive more treatment than she is currently. How
should Andy proceed in the treatment of Jospeh's mother?
a. recommend against treatment, as tele practice has not been proven in treating Wernicke's
aphasia
b. recommend against treatment, as Joseph's mother is already receiving services
c. share the mother's case information with a fellow SLP in the state win which Jospeh lives
d. refer the friend to another SLP who has licensure in the state in which Jospeh lives
a. "Mommy's going to run." - correct answer ✔✔4. During an intervention session, a child
produces the utterance "Mommy go run." The child's SLP uses an expansion approach to
increase the complexity of the child's utterance. Which of the following statements could this
SLP use in response to the child?
a. "Mommy's going to run."
b. "Mommy's going to run to the house."
c. "Where is Mommy going?"
d. "Say 'Mommy is going to run.'"
a. percent consonants correct - correct answer ✔✔5. A SLP is attempting to perform an
evaluation on a new Pediactric client and would like to perform an analysis to compare the
client's correct consonant productions to the entire speech sample. Which means of assessment
would be the MOST APPROPRIATE choice for this SLP too make?
a. percent consonants correct
b. phonological mean length of utterance
c. phonological error patterns analysis
,d. traditional analysis
c. the child will modify communicative attempts based on the needs of their communication
partner - correct answer ✔✔6. Erica is a young child who demonstrates pragmatic difficulties.
Specifically, Eric has difficulties with presupposition skills, which her SLP has been targeting in
order to improve Erica's conversational abilities. Which of the following would be the MOST
APPROPRIATE goal for Erica's intervention?
a. the child will utilize gestures in conversation to reinforce engaging topics of conversation
b. the child will understand that communication partners have perspectives and feelings
different from her own
c. the child will modify communicative attempts based on the needs of their communication
partner
d. the child will understand that communicative partners engage in conversation with certain
expectations for communication
a. exploration/expansion stage - correct answer ✔✔7. Andy is an infant being evaluated by a
SLP during an early intervention home visit. The SLP notes that Andy demonstrates vocal play,
raspberries, trills and marginal babbling during the evaluation. Using this information, which
stage of linguistic development does Andy fall within?
a. exploration/expansion stage
b. coo and goo stage
c. canonical babbling stage
d. phonation stage
c. voltage-gated Na+ channels are periodically inactivated after opening - correct answer ✔✔8.
During the transmission of an action potential, after a neuron has fired, there is an absolute
refractory period. This is a delay during which a neuron is unable to transmit further action
potentials. This delay must expire before that neuron can fire again because:
, a. sodium (Na+) ions continue to flow out of the cell after an action potential spike
b. potassium ions (K+) continue to flow out of the cell after an action potential spike
c. voltage-gated Na+ channels are periodically inactivated after opening
d. voltage-gated potassium (K+) channels are periodically inactivated after opening
**same as A129
a. the patient demonstrates a severe right hearing loss and a minimal left hearing loss - correct
answer ✔✔9. An audiologist has recently completed a full audiometric evaluation on a patient
with complaints of hearing loss with the following pure tone average of 78 dB hearing loss in
the right ear and 23 dB hearing loss in the left ear. Which of the following statements BEST
describes this patient?
a. the patient demonstrates a severe right hearing loss and a minimal left hearing loss
b. the patient demonstrates a profound right hearing loss and mild left hearing loss
c. the patient demonstrates a moderately severe right hearing loss and normal left hearing
d. the patient demonstrates a severe right hearing loss and a mild left hearing loss
b. coronal pattern with the velum contacting the pharyngeal wall - correct answer ✔✔10. A
client arrives at the SLP clinic at an acute care hospital with complaints of " a change in voice."
After comprehensive endoscopic evaluation, the SLP notes that the deficit is most likely not one
of resonance due to problems of velopharyngeal closure, as this client exhibits "the most
common pattern of velopharyngeal closure." Which of the following BEST describes this client's
pattern of closure?
a. circular pattern with approximately equal activity of the velum, lateral pharyngeal walls and
posterior pharyngeal wall
b. coronal pattern with the velum contacting the pharyngeal wall
well answered graded A+
a. traumatic brain injury - correct answer ✔✔1. A child has been referred to a SLP for a
comprehensive language evaluation, with reports of "global language problems". Following
evaluation, the SLP determines that the child is demonstrating word-finding difficulties,
comprehension deficits and disorganized language, in addition to deficits in attention and
executive functioning. Which of the following disorders does the child MOST LIKELY
demonstrate?
a. traumatic brain injury
b. cerebral palsy
c. autism spectrum disorder
d. Down syndrome
b. incomplete episode - correct answer ✔✔2. A SLP has been working on narrative structure
with a middle school student on the SLPs caseload. Recently, the child wrote a story about her
weekend, which reads "My family was going to a friend's birthday party. We were late to the
birthday party." Using this information, the SLP would like to assign a narrative episode level to
this child's story. Which of the following narrative levels BEST describes the child's story?
a. abbreviated episode
b. incomplete episode
c. complete episode
d. action sequence
d. refer the friend to another SLP who has licensure in the state in which Jospeh lives - correct
answer ✔✔3. Andy is a SLP who has recently branched out into providing tele practice services
,to in-state clients who are unable to be treated at his private practice center. Joseph is a friend
of Andy's who lives in another state in which Andy does not have licensure and has just heard
about Andy's new service delivery. Jospeh asks Andy to treat his mother, who has Wernicke's
aphasia, as Jospeh would like his mother to receive more treatment than she is currently. How
should Andy proceed in the treatment of Jospeh's mother?
a. recommend against treatment, as tele practice has not been proven in treating Wernicke's
aphasia
b. recommend against treatment, as Joseph's mother is already receiving services
c. share the mother's case information with a fellow SLP in the state win which Jospeh lives
d. refer the friend to another SLP who has licensure in the state in which Jospeh lives
a. "Mommy's going to run." - correct answer ✔✔4. During an intervention session, a child
produces the utterance "Mommy go run." The child's SLP uses an expansion approach to
increase the complexity of the child's utterance. Which of the following statements could this
SLP use in response to the child?
a. "Mommy's going to run."
b. "Mommy's going to run to the house."
c. "Where is Mommy going?"
d. "Say 'Mommy is going to run.'"
a. percent consonants correct - correct answer ✔✔5. A SLP is attempting to perform an
evaluation on a new Pediactric client and would like to perform an analysis to compare the
client's correct consonant productions to the entire speech sample. Which means of assessment
would be the MOST APPROPRIATE choice for this SLP too make?
a. percent consonants correct
b. phonological mean length of utterance
c. phonological error patterns analysis
,d. traditional analysis
c. the child will modify communicative attempts based on the needs of their communication
partner - correct answer ✔✔6. Erica is a young child who demonstrates pragmatic difficulties.
Specifically, Eric has difficulties with presupposition skills, which her SLP has been targeting in
order to improve Erica's conversational abilities. Which of the following would be the MOST
APPROPRIATE goal for Erica's intervention?
a. the child will utilize gestures in conversation to reinforce engaging topics of conversation
b. the child will understand that communication partners have perspectives and feelings
different from her own
c. the child will modify communicative attempts based on the needs of their communication
partner
d. the child will understand that communicative partners engage in conversation with certain
expectations for communication
a. exploration/expansion stage - correct answer ✔✔7. Andy is an infant being evaluated by a
SLP during an early intervention home visit. The SLP notes that Andy demonstrates vocal play,
raspberries, trills and marginal babbling during the evaluation. Using this information, which
stage of linguistic development does Andy fall within?
a. exploration/expansion stage
b. coo and goo stage
c. canonical babbling stage
d. phonation stage
c. voltage-gated Na+ channels are periodically inactivated after opening - correct answer ✔✔8.
During the transmission of an action potential, after a neuron has fired, there is an absolute
refractory period. This is a delay during which a neuron is unable to transmit further action
potentials. This delay must expire before that neuron can fire again because:
, a. sodium (Na+) ions continue to flow out of the cell after an action potential spike
b. potassium ions (K+) continue to flow out of the cell after an action potential spike
c. voltage-gated Na+ channels are periodically inactivated after opening
d. voltage-gated potassium (K+) channels are periodically inactivated after opening
**same as A129
a. the patient demonstrates a severe right hearing loss and a minimal left hearing loss - correct
answer ✔✔9. An audiologist has recently completed a full audiometric evaluation on a patient
with complaints of hearing loss with the following pure tone average of 78 dB hearing loss in
the right ear and 23 dB hearing loss in the left ear. Which of the following statements BEST
describes this patient?
a. the patient demonstrates a severe right hearing loss and a minimal left hearing loss
b. the patient demonstrates a profound right hearing loss and mild left hearing loss
c. the patient demonstrates a moderately severe right hearing loss and normal left hearing
d. the patient demonstrates a severe right hearing loss and a mild left hearing loss
b. coronal pattern with the velum contacting the pharyngeal wall - correct answer ✔✔10. A
client arrives at the SLP clinic at an acute care hospital with complaints of " a change in voice."
After comprehensive endoscopic evaluation, the SLP notes that the deficit is most likely not one
of resonance due to problems of velopharyngeal closure, as this client exhibits "the most
common pattern of velopharyngeal closure." Which of the following BEST describes this client's
pattern of closure?
a. circular pattern with approximately equal activity of the velum, lateral pharyngeal walls and
posterior pharyngeal wall
b. coronal pattern with the velum contacting the pharyngeal wall
