Praxis Test 3, praxis test 4, PRAXIS SLP, ETS Praxis Review 2, Praxis Review test 1
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Praxis
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Praxis
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 mot...
Praxis Test 3, praxis test 4, PRAXIS SLP,
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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. - ANSWER-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. - ANSWER-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 - ANSWER-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. - ANSWER-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 - ANSWER-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. - ANSWER-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.
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