Things I didn't know on practice tests

Question 1

procedure that adds length to the soft palate and minimizes the contractile forces generated by palatal scar tissue.

Answer 1

Furlow Z-plasty

Question 2

anterior displacement of a distinct portion of the posterior pharyngeal wall during speech

Answer 2

Passavant’s Ridge

Question 3

Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, Respiration- test given right after birth to assess a newborn’s physical condition

Answer 3

Apgar Scores

Question 4

an instrument used to measure the pressure of liquids and gasses

Answer 4

manometer

Question 5

used to measure air volume or flow

Answer 5

spirometer

Question 6

When is a baby ready to transition to solid foods?

Answer 6

4 to 6 months

Question 7

What piece of legislation is credited as being the start of the inclusion movement in public schools?

Answer 7

The Regular Education Initiative (REI) in 1985

Question 8

True or False

Individuals with spinal onset require motor speech intervention later than those with bulbar onset

Answer 8

True

Question 9

What does the Ethics in Patient Referral Acts of 1989 state?

Answer 9

It prohibits healthcare professionals from referring patients to entities in which they have financial interest

Question 10

provides a plot of amplitude of a waveform displayed over time

Answer 10

oscilloscope

Question 11

Mr. Angelo has come to a speech language pathologist for a voice evaluation. His major complaint is difficulty altering the pitch of his voice. Which muscle and nerve are likely to be affected?

Answer 11

Cricothyroid muscle and external branch of the superior laryngeal nerve

Question 12

True or False Low voels have higher F₁ values than do high vowels

Answer 12

True

Question 13

What articulators are involved in producing a pharyngeal fricative?

Answer 13

Posterior pharyngeal wall and soft palate

Question 14

What standardaized test enables the measurement of vowel production accuracy?

Answer 14

The Arizona Articulatioin Proficiency Scale-3

Question 15

This layer of the vocal fold helps to maintain the integrity of the vocal fold shape:

Answer 15

Epithelium

Question 16

A set of words that are acousitcally similar and have approximately the same frequency of occurrence

Answer 16

an acoustic lexical neighborhood

Question 17

used to measure impedance between the vocal folds in order to estimate degree of vocal fold contact

Answer 17

electroglottography

Question 18

which syndrome is characterized by cardiac problems, velopharyngeal inadequacy, and typical facies (e.g., long face, almond-shaped eyes, broad nasal base)?

Answer 18

velocardiofacial syndrome

Question 19

The medial pterygoid muscle plays an active role in closing jaws during pseech. Which muscle is considered the direct antagonist of the medial pterygoid muscle during speech?

Answer 19

the anterior belly of the digastricus muscle

Question 20

According to McBride-Chang (1995) phonological awareness tasks require what three skills?

Answer 20

• reasoning
• speech perception
• memory skills

Question 21

What type of tympanogram is typically produced by a person with an interrupted ossicular chain?

Answer 21

Type Ad

Question 22

On the Mini-Mental State Examination, scores in what range would suggest that a patient has cognitive impairments correpsonding to moderate severity of dementia?

Answer 22

8 to 15

Question 23

What is the most anterior prominence of the arytenoid cartilage, where the vocal folds attach?

Answer 23

the vocal process

Question 24

Who proposed the myoelastic-aerodynamic theory?

Answer 24

Janwillem Van den Berg

Question 25

What carries out the elevation and lowering of the larynx for respiration and phonation?

Answer 25

the extrinsic laryngeal muscles

Question 26

the ratio of abductor to addutor duration in the larynx

Answer 26

speed quotient

Question 27

Men have a vital capacity of

Answer 27

4 to 5 liters

Question 28

Women have a vital capacity of

Answer 28

3 to 4 liters

Question 29

What is the prominence of the arytenoid cartialage that forms the attachment for the posterior and the lateral cricoarytenoid muslces?

Answer 29

the muscular process

Question 30

The phenomenon in which persons who stutter tend to have disfluencies more on clusters than would be expected by chance

Answer 30

adjacency effect

Question 31

Patients who have difficulty making nonspeech sounds and cannot move the muscles of the throat, soft palate, and tongue for nonspeech purposes

Answer 31

oral apraxia