SLP Praxis (SLP)

Contact ulcers may be caused by all of the following except: A. Chronic Throat Clearing B. Hard Glottal Attack C. Intubation D. Psychogenic Problems Correct Answer: D. Psychogenic Problems You are working with a client who has Parkinson's and tends to speak with a monotone. You are trying to help her intonation become more varied. You have her deliberately speak with a monotone over and over again to help increase her awareness of how she sounds; you record her on your phone and play...

40% Correct Answer: At rest, the lungs are partially inflated to approximately ___% of their total capacity bronchi Correct Answer: tubes that extend from the lungs upwards towards the trachea. Composed of cartilaginous rings bound together by fibroelastic tissue Trachea Correct Answer: a tube about 11 centimeters long formed by 20 rings of cartilage Spinal column Correct Answer: consists of 32-33 individual vertebrae: 7 cervical, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar, 5 sacral (fused), amd 3-4 coc...

At about what age do infants begin to send intentional and purposeful messages via babbling and gesturing? a. 3 months b. 6 months c. 10 months d. 2 years old Correct Answer: c. 10 months intentional and purposeful switch from perlocutionary to illocutionary Tommy is 7 months old and recently began babbling. He produces chains such as "mama" and "dada". What type of babbling is Tommy demonstrating? a. Variegated babbling b. Reduplicated babbling c. Cooing d. None of the ab...

If a child has already had surgery but the cleft repair was inadequate what would you do next? A. begin therapy B. refer child back to surgical management team. Correct Answer: B Cleft palate difficulties include: A. voiced sounds B. unvoiced sounds C. substitutions D. prolongations E. omissions F. low pressure consonants G. high pressure consonants (fricatives, affricates, stops) H. sibilants I. distortions of vowels Correct Answer: B, C, E, G, H, I Children with cleft pal...

Justin is a highly unintelligible 4-year-old boy. He has difficulties producing /w/, /t/, /d/, and /th/. If you were to treat him using a least phonological knowledge approach, your first target sound in therapy would be:________ Correct Answer: /th/ Patients who exhibit _________ have difficulty making nonspeech sounds, and cannot move the muscles of the throat, soft palate, and tongue for nonspeech purposes: Correct Answer: oral apraxia In ________ otitis media, the infection continues...

Stuttering modification techniques SELECT ALL THAT APPLY A Cancellation B Easy onset C Light contact D Pull out E Preparatory set F Pausing Correct Answer: Stuttering modification techniques A, D, E CANCELLATION, PULL OUT, PREPARATORY SET Fluency Shaping techniques SELECT ALL THAT APPLY A Pull out B Pausing C Light contact D Cancellation E Easy onset F Preparatory set Correct Answer: Fluency Shaping techniques B, C, E EASY ONSET, LIGHT CONTACT, PAUSING Stuttering vs. Cl...

The components of an AAC system are crucial to consider during an assessment. When assessing a young child, you evaluate the way the individual will use and interact with the system, including the user interface, selection method, and output. What type of components are being described? secondary components The structure at the inferior portion of the tongue that connects the tongue with the mandible is called the lingual frenulum All of the following can be used to screen for ap...

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 ...

Which of the following formants typically characterizes a high vowel? Correct Answer: Low-frequency first formant (F1) - The F1 is inversely associated with tongue height, such that high vowels tend to have low F1 frequencies. A 65-year-old patient is transferred from another facility with a diagnosis of aphasia. The patient's symptoms, however, appear more consistent with apraxia. Which of the following tasks for the patient is most appropriate when assessing verbal apraxia of speech? C...

Respiration relies on the muscles of inspiration and expiration. The thick, dome-shaped muscle that seperates the abdomen from the thorax is called the: diaphragm Most pharyngeal muscles are innervated by cranial nerves: X, XI (Vagus, Spinal Accessory) The primary muscle of the lips is the: orbicularis oris The neurons that transmit information away from the brain are called: Efferent neurons An important structure adjacent to the brainstem that contains the hypot...