In speech sound evals, it's best for an SLPs to include a sample of connected speech because connected speech samples...

may result in dif types of errors than those elicited by single-word tasks

Muscles that contribute to velopharyngeal closure through tensing or elevating the velum are

palatoglossus, tensor veli palatini, levator veli palatini

Which statement best explains why thickened liquids for adults w/dysphagia should be used with caution?

Patients don't like thickened liquids so they do not drink enough of it

Using the phrase "all gone" to express emerging negation

The corpus striatum is composed of three nuclear masses, which are the

globus pallidus, caudate nucleus, and putamen

Which treatment is...

Promoting Aphasics’ Communication Effectiveness

Which activity is an example of a metalinguistic strategy used to assist a student with language difficulties?

Editing the writing of same-aged peers

The presence of patterns such as epenthesis, final consonant deletion, and cluster reduction is the use of:

Patterns affecting syllable structure

increased social use of lang. and collaborating with teacher

a speech dis. assoc. with muscle weakness or paralysis

Which characteristic best helps an SLPs provide a differential diagnosis for ASD instead of a social comm. disorder?

Repetitive and restrictive patterns of behavior

In Oller's stages of infant phonological development, reduplicated babbling precedes

nonreduplicated or variegated babbling

P.L. 94-142, the Education of the Handicapped Act, was later reauthorized and retitled as

the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act

Which of the following is typical of spondee words?

They are two-syllable words produced with equal stress.

Which of the following groups of phonemes can best be described as the Six-Sound Test by Ling?

/u/, as in the word ooze, /e/, /o/, /a/, /æ/ /ə/

An SLP works w/a rehab team to treat a patient who is status post left-hemisphere stroke. The SLPs primary focus is to

improve the patient experience and outcome of care at the site

When assessing a child with a speech sound disorder, the major purpose of stimulability assessment is to:

Select appropriate goals to work on in therapy

During a videofluoroscopic swallow study on a geriatric patient, which finding is most considered typical development?

Liquid bolus enters pharynx before hyolaryngeal excursion begins

the Americans With Disabilities Act

In the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, the patient has more:

Cognition problems than language problems

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1
You have been...
injection method
laryngeal airway resistance method
inhalatory injection method
inhalation method
2
In speech sound evals, it's best for an SLPs to include a sample of connected speech because connected speech samples...
are easier to gloss than single-word productions
provide more reliable information than standardized tests
contain a representative sample of all the phonemes in a language
may result in dif types of errors than those elicited by single-word tasks
3
children do not combine words until they have at least ____ words in their expressive vocabulary.
25
10
75
50
4
Which of the following is most likely to occur in an infant with an unrepaired cleft palate?
Tongue thrust
Aspiration pneumonia
Choking
Nasal regurgitation
5
Which of the following is a middle ear disorder?
presbycusis
Meniere's disease
otitis media
Tinnitus
6
The /r/ and /l/ sounds may both be categorized as
liquids
laterals
rhotics
glides
7
Contact ulcers may be caused by all of the following except:
chronic throat clearing
hard-glottal attack
psychogenic problems
intubation
8
Muscles that contribute to velopharyngeal closure through tensing or elevating the velum are
tensor veli palatini levator veli palatini salpingopharyngeu
stylopharyngeus, salpingopharyngeus, levator veli palatini
palatoglossus, tensor veli palatini, levator veli palatini
levator veli palatini, genioglossus, salpingopharyngeus
9
An eval is performed on a 5 yr old with frequent hoarseness. Which is primarily included in the endoscopic examination?
Amplitude perturbation
Laryngeal airway resistance
Perceptual judgment
Laryngeal visualization
10
Which of the following will most effectively increase the fundamental frequency of the voice?
Decreasing subglottal pressure
Lengthening the vocal folds
Decreasing the stiffness of the vocal folds
Decreasing cricothyroid muscle activity
11
Which statement best explains why thickened liquids for adults w/dysphagia should be used with caution?
Thickened liquids are aspirated more frequently than thin liquids.
Thickened liquid provides half the hydration that thin liquid provides
Patients don't like thickened liquids so they do not drink enough of it
The thickened liquid becomes thinner as it sits at the bedside
12
A mother...
Using the phrase "all gone" to express emerging negation
Uncovering a hidden toy (beginning of object permanence)
Comprehension of no
Using variegated babbling (e.g. "madamada")
13
An infant with cleft palate will most likely have hearing problems because of
malformed ossicles
an incompletely formed cochlea
eustachian tube dysfunction
aural atresia
14
For a 5 yr old, if an SLP follows a developmental sequence, which of the following is most appropriate to target first?
Deaffrication
Consonant assimilation
Cluster reduction
Gliding
15
The corpus striatum is composed of three nuclear masses, which are the
supramarginal gyrus, angular gyrus, putamen
substantia nigra, angular gyrus, globus pallidus
globus pallidus, caudate nucleus, and putamen
putamen, caudate nucleus, basal ganglia
16
Which of the following is an etiology for cortical dementia?
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Parkinson's disease
Huntington's disease
Alzheimer’s disease
17
Which of these variables are considered risk factors for late language emergence?
Male gender
Low socioeconomic status
Moderately low birth weight
All of the above
18
According to research, which of the following structural factors has the most adverse effect on articulation?
Unilateral facial palsy
Class III malocclusion
Short labial frenulum
Micrognathia
19
Which of the following muscles opposes lip retraction (spreading) ?
Orbicularis oris
Zygomaticus major
Risorius
Levator labii superioris
20
Elisions and transpositions are referred to as phoneme
blending
manipulations
additions
deletions
21
A child says, "Red Crayon." This is an example of which type of semantic relations?
attribute + locative
attribute + entity
agent + action
action + locative
22
Which of the following interventions was designed to and is shown to improve upper esophageal sphincter opening?
Valsalva (breath hold)
Lingual resistance exercise
Effortful swallow
Shaker (head lift) exercise
23
When carcinoma affects the cricoid and trachea, the damage is:
aryepiglottic
supraglottic
subglottic
Epiglottic
24
Injecting Botox directly into one/both vocal folds has been used for which of the following voice conditions?
spasmodic dysphonia
laryngeal webs
polyps
carcinoma
25
A Tx option for adductor spasmodic dysphonia involves the percutaneous injection of __ into the thyroarytenoid muscle
Gelfoam
Collagen
Botulinum toxin
Autologous fat
26
Which treatment is...
Promoting Aphasics’ Communication Effectiveness
Response elaboration training
Semantic feature analysis
Melodic intonation therapy
27
Which of the following is the minimal contrast approach most appropriately used to treat?
Phonological disorders
Dysphagia
Dysarthria
Global aphasia
28
Recent research indicates the prevalence of adults with swallowing problems each year is
1 in 50
1 in 200
1 in 25
1 in 100
29
Which of the following should a typically developing 9-month-old child begin to demonstrate?
Differentiated cries
Canonical babbling
Vocatives
cooing
30
Which of the following statements best represents a syntactic structure characteristic of Spanish-influenced English?
“Lady her shoes.”
“She no do laundry today.”
“She be runnin’ fast.”
“He is going?”
31
Whch one is a type of velopharyngeal dysfunction?
All of the above
Velopharyngeal insufficiency
Velopharyngeal mislearning
Velopharyngeal incompetence
32
Which activity is an example of a metalinguistic strategy used to assist a student with language difficulties?
Placing story elements in sequential order
Providing a definition of a word
Editing the writing of same-aged peers
Discussing similarities and differences between two pictures
33
The presence of patterns such as epenthesis, final consonant deletion, and cluster reduction is the use of:
Coalescence
Patterns involving substitutions of sounds
Assimilation
Patterns affecting syllable structure
34
A regionally or socially distinct variety of a language identified by distinct set of words and structures is called
bilingualism
dialect
code switching
socioeconomic bilingualism
35
You are working...
increased social use of lang. and collaborating with teacher
increased use of complex sent with subordinate clauses
increased word retrieval and word definition skills
increasing auditory memory
36
Which condition...
Ankyloglossia
Bulbar palsy
Congenital lip pits
Glossoptosis
37
Dysarthria is
a speech dis. assoc. with muscle weakness or paralysis
a single disorder with a unitary etiology
a speech disorder never associated with aphasia
a speech dis. in the absence of muscle weakness or paralysis
38
Which characteristic best helps an SLPs provide a differential diagnosis for ASD instead of a social comm. disorder?
Deficits that result in functional limitations in social participation
Difficulty following rules for storytelling
Deficits in communication appropriate for a social context
Repetitive and restrictive patterns of behavior
39
In Oller's stages of infant phonological development, reduplicated babbling precedes
nonreduplicated or variegated babbling
cooing
phonation
expansion
40
P.L. 94-142, the Education of the Handicapped Act, was later reauthorized and retitled as
the Handicapped Individuals Education Act
the Education of Disabled Individuals Education Act
the Americans With Disabilities Act
the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act
41
a 4-year-old child should be
80-90% intelligible
90-100% intelligible
60-70 % intelligible
70-80% intelligible
42
Which of the following is typical of spondee words?
They are two-syllable words produced with equal stress.
They are phonetically balanced monosyllabic words.
They are phonetically balanced two-syllable words.
They represent twenty of the most common English words.
43
Which of the following groups of phonemes can best be described as the Six-Sound Test by Ling?
/f/, /s/, /θ/, /ʃ/, /z/, /h/
/d/, /g/, /e/, /o/, /s/, /ʃ/
/u/, as in the word ooze, /e/, /o/, /a/, /æ/ /ə/
/m/, /a/, /u/, /i/, /s/, /ʃ/
44
An SLP works w/a rehab team to treat a patient who is status post left-hemisphere stroke. The SLPs primary focus is to
obtain licenses in all areas of practice to engage in a range of services
improve the patient experience and outcome of care at the site
lead the interdisciplinary team to improve patient care
reduce costs and the number of professionals working at the site
45
A sinusoidal wave is a sound wave
with horizontal and vertical symmetry
with one peak and one valley
with a single frequency
all of the above
46
When assessing a child with a speech sound disorder, the major purpose of stimulability assessment is to:
Evaluate whether nonspeech oral motor exercises are necessary
Predict how much progress the child will make in Tx in a given time period
Select appropriate goals to work on in therapy
Assess the child’s willingness to cooperate with the clinician
47
During a videofluoroscopic swallow study on a geriatric patient, which finding is most considered typical development?
Vallecular retention of more than 50 percent of vallecular height
Nasopharyngeal regurgitation
Liquid bolus enters pharynx before hyolaryngeal excursion begins
Oral pocketing
48
The law stating...
HIPAA
No Child Left Behind
P.L. 94-142
the Americans With Disabilities Act
49
In the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, the patient has more:
Cognition problems than language problems
Language problems than cognition problems
Muteness
Disorientation
50
The parent of a child who is receiving therapy says to you “What are glides?” You tell him:
/b/ and /p/
/w/ and /j/
/s/ and /z/
/l/ and /r/
51
A girl has has experienced TBI. She now has executive functioning deficits; this is probably due to damage to the:
frontal lobe
parietal lobe
occipital lobe
temporal lobe
52
Which risk factor has the highest independent predictive value for pneumonia in elderly people w/ dysphagia?
Having a history of acute hemispheric stroke more than one year ago
Drinking more than six glasses of water per day
Depending on others for feeding and oral care
Experiencing aspiration of saliva at night
53
A clinician evaluates...
Bus
Lassie
Stopped
Rich
54
Speech-language pathologists...
EEG
a PET scan
MRI
fluoroscopy
55
A child immigrates from China and speaks Hmong. The child will qualify for language therapy if he..
He needs to be evaluated by an English as a second language teacher
Has delays in both languages, evidencing problems using both
Has normal skills in English but delays in Hmong
Has normal skills in Hmong and delays in English
56
According to research, which of the following is most contributing to a rise in oropharyngeal cancers in the U.S.?
Smokeless tobacco
Cigarettes
Human papillomavirus (HPVH P V)
Alcohol
57
Which procedure is most important for SLPs to consider when assessing social aspect of a school-age childs comm skills?
Assessing expressive vocabulary used by the child on a pic vocabulary test
Collecting a language sample to assess narrative skills
Observing child interacting with peers in natural settings
Discerning between child’s IQ and comm skills to determine eligibility
58
For suspected velopharyngeal dysfunction...
Liquids and glides
Sustained /α/
Nasal phonemes
High-pressure oral stops and fricatives
59
A 90-year-old woman in a SNF is in the end stages of Alzheimer's dementia. The top priority tx
increasing orientation to date and time
facilitating comm with the staff during daily routines
improving her sentence structure
working on her word retreival skills
60
Which nerve provides efferent innervation to the stylopharyngeus muscle and helps elevate the pharynx and larynx?
vagus
hypoglossal
glossopharyngeal
trigeminal
61
Apraxia of speech is often associated with
lesions in the occipital area
lesions in subcortical structures
lesions in Broca's area
lesions in Wernicke's area
62
Baselines
all of the above
are part of evidence-based practice
help establish the need for treatment
help establish the initial (natural) level of client's resp.
63
The back and forth movement of air molecules because of a vibrating object is referred to as
oscillation
amplitude
velocity
displacement
64
Which of the following diagnoses would require a Tx program that is focused on improving auditory lang. comprehension?
Broca’s aphasia
Wernicke’s aphasia
Global aphasia
Right-hemisphere communication impairment
65
A child who shows slow, writhing, involuntary movements has which type of cerebral palsy?
Spastic
athetoid
mixed
ataxic
66
Of the following symptoms, the one associated with dysarthria is
even and consistent breakdowns in articulation
impaired syntactic structures
forced inspirations and expirations that interrupt speech
an invariably slower rate of speech
67
When a child says things like /ko/ instead of /so/, she is demonstrating the pattern of:
backing
epenthesis
fronting
coalescence
68
In most states...
a state-issued credential from an agency such as DOE
ASHA certification
state licensure
state licensure and ASHA certification
69
Which procedure....
A nasopharyngoscopy
A laryngoscopy
A manometry
A videofluoroscopic swallow study
70
P.L. 99-457...
major goals for the child and family, services to be prov.
family's needs and strengths relating to the child's dev
all of the above
the child's present level of development
71
If a child...
Continue speech eval & note the screening failed due to poor cooperation
Interview parents, read outside reports, & base diagnosis on that data
Stop the speech-language eval and refer for an audiologic evaluation
Complete the speech-language eval and refer for audiologic evaluation
72
You observe...
pragmatics
indirect requests
locatives
gerunds
73
If a child has a developmental speech delay secondary to an intellectual disability, which is likely true?
Prenatal trauma can be assumed & a plan to counsel parents is necessary.
A genetic etiology can be assumed and treatment can be withheld.
The info. provided does not allow an assumption to be made on etiology
Genetic etiology can be assumed & compensatory strategies should be taught
74
An endoscopic examination of swallowing is the best instrumental assessment when the SLP wishes to evaluate the
duration and extent of hyolaryngeal elevation
volume of and patient’s response to pharyngeal secretions
efficiency of lingual manipulation during bolus formation
penetration of material into the laryngeal vestibule during the swallow
75
Which of the following syndromes results from the presence of an extra copy of chromosome 21 ?
Down syndrome
Velocardiofacial syndrome
22q11.222 q 11.2 deletion syndrome
Fragile X syndrome
76
Which of the following must a child first be able to do before the child can produce narratives?
Use past and future tenses
Express a sequence using “then” or “next”
Produce several utterances on the same topic
Produce compound sentences using “and”
77
The presence of benign vocal fold lesions in women can best be explained by differences in
rates of vocal fold vibration
neck circumference
daily dairy consumption
speaking duration
78
When a person is producing voiced and voiceless /th/, the muscle that is most invloved is the
palatopharyngeus
styloglossus
genioglossus
sternocleidomastoid
79
A condition...
submucosal cleft class IV
submucous or occult cleft palate
fusion disorder
class III palatal cleft
80
Which of the following therapeutic techniques is most appropriate to treat hyperfunctional voice disorders?
Semi-occluded vocal tract exercises
Pushing, pulling, and isometrics
Lee Silverman Voice Treatment
Coughing and throat clearing
81
Which one of the following is NOT a minimal pair?
Duck-luck
Mud-moon
Pen-ten
Me-meat
82
Testing...
True
False
83
Which reflexive response is primarily responsible for expelling material from the airway of healthy adult individuals?
Swallowing reflex
Gag reflex
Cough reflex
Rooting reflex

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