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SLP Praxis Practice Test Questions And
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Researchers often use cross-sectional studies to study children's development in various areas.
What is a difficulty with cross-sectional studies?
1. The same subjects are studied over time, and this is expensive, time consuming, and difficult
because subjects might drop out of the study.
2. The investigator is examining data already on file to answer questions about children in
various age groups, and that data might not be reliable.
3. Observations are made of differences between subjects of different ages to generalize about
developmental changes that would occur within subjects as they mature.
4. The total age span of children to be studied is divided into several overlapping age spans, and
it is difficult to follow subjects from the lower to the upper end of each age span. -
answer✔Observations are made of differences between subjects of different ages to generalize
about developmental changes that would occur within subjects as they mature.
Based on client observation, how can a clinician determine whether a client has normal
disfluencies or abnormal dysfluencies?
1. Any presence of secondary behaviors
2. The presence of any prolongations
3. A pitch decrease during the moment of stuttering
4. Consistent rhythm and tone of a client's voice - answer✔1. Any presence of secondary
behaviors
Valentina, a 5-year-old Puerto Rican girl, was just added to your caseload. She was diagnosed
with autism when she was 3 years old. Valentina shows resistance and aggressive behaviors,
along with inattention. She also has many deficits in expressive and receptive language, as well
as articulation problems. Since Valentina is a new client to the facility, you are looking to
establish initial communication skills, such as words and phrases, grammatical morphemes, and
articulation of speech sounds. You also wish to treat her using discrete trial methods in which
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target skills are taught with massed trials, as well as the use of modeling, prompting, and shaping
throughout therapy. Which type of teaching would you be using when treating Valentina?
1. Direct teaching
2. Activity-based teaching
3. Incidental teaching
4. Naturalistic teaching - answer✔1. Direct teaching
Which of the following statements is false?
1. Wernicke's area in the temporal lobe is critical to comprehending spoken language.
2. Wernicke's area is connected to Broca's area in the frontal lobe through the arcuate fasciculus.
3. The occipital lobe contains the primary visual cortex.
4. The angular gyrus in the occipital lobe is important for interpreting somesthetic sensations
such as pain, touch, and temperature. - answer✔4. The angular gyrus in the occipital lobe is
important for interpreting somesthetic sensations such as pain, touch, and temperature.
A client comes to your office for an evaluation and provides you with reports from other
professionals who have previously seen the client. How should you use this information?
1. The information most likely creates a biased view of a client's condition and should not be
heavily considered.
2. You should consider the information but rely primarily on your own direct observation and
evaluation results.
3. If the information identifies specific treatment options and alternatives, you should use these
options and alternatives for the client.
4. The information is not legal to obtain because it is from another professional, which means
you should not use it to help you evaluate your client. - answer✔2. You should consider the
information but rely primarily on your own direct observation and evaluation results.
There are two broad levels of human communication: verbal communication and nonverbal
communication. Verbal communication uses words as symbols to exchange ideas. Nonverbal
communication includes many behaviors that communicate with or without the associated
production of symbols. Which of the following is not an example of nonverbal communication?
1. Facial expression
2. American Sign Language
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3. Body language
4. Extralinguistic communication - answer✔2. American Sign Language
When determining a child's mean length of utterance, the following should be considered two
morphemes:
1. Present progressive -ing
2. Auxiliary verbs
3. Proper names
4. Fillers - answer✔1. Present progressive -ing
In an educational setting, when is the curriculum for a student with a disability planned?
1. During the individualized education plan (IEP) meeting
2. During a meeting between the special education director and the parents
3. All education providers communicate through e-mail to explain what they will contribute to
the curriculum.
4. It is not necessary to plan a curriculum for a student with a disability because curriculums for
all disabilities have already been created. - answer✔1. During the individualized education plan
(IEP) meeting
When treating apraxia of speech (AOS), some clinicians teach clients to shape articulatory
productions and capitalize on productions that are automatic. This technique includes the use of
phoneme drills. What is this referred to as?
1. Voluntary control of involuntary utterances
2. Prompts for reconstructing oral muscular targets
3. Darley, Aronson, and Brown's (1975) procedure for AOS
4. Eight-step continuum treatment for AOS - answer✔3. Darley, Aronson, and Brown's (1975)
procedure for AOS
When treating tongue thrust, which of the following are the primary articulatory targets?
/g/
/k/
/s/
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/m/
/h/
/z/
/b/ - answer✔/s/ /z/
If a client is having difficulty producing a word with a vowel, it is important for the clinician to
distinguish whether the vowel is tense or lax. What is the best way for a clinician to quickly
discern a lax vowel from a tense vowel?
1. Look at whether the vowel is rounded or unrounded
2. Tense vowels are relatively long in duration
3. Lax vowels are relatively long in duration
4. Tense vowels are relatively short in duration - answer✔2. Tense vowels are relatively long in
duration
As a speech-language pathologist, how would you manage associated attentional problems for a
client with cerebral palsy?
1. Teaching breath cycle to pattern the patient's breathing
2. Using behavioral treatment to address the attention deficit that the child may exhibit during
sessions
3. Incorporating longer, less frequent therapy sessions
4. Providing longer treatment activities to hold the patient's attention - answer✔2. Using
behavioral treatment to address the attention deficit that the child may exhibit during sessions
How do most professionals generally categorize cerebral palsy?
1. Prenatal, perinatal, postnatal
2. Hemiplegia, monoplegia, diplegia
3. Hemiplegia, athetoid, postnatal
4. Ataxic, athetoid, spastic types - answer✔4. Ataxic, athetoid, spastic types
Which of the following is not a typical age-related change in the larynx?
1. Hardening of the laryngeal cartilages
2. Velopharyngeal insufficiency
