exam one

Question 1

Where do the majority of speech - language pathologists work?

Answer 1

Schools

Question 2

Speech-language pathology assistants and audiology assistants can perform all of the same duties as certified speech-language pathologists and audiologists in the care of patients and clients

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Mary is deaf and requires the use of a teletypewriter ( TTY) device. This technology is available to her in public places due to which federal law

Answer 3

Americans with disabilities act

Question 4

Individuals with communication impairments are _____ to experience preventable adverse events than individuals without communication impairments

Answer 4

More likely

Question 5

Bob was able to communicate typically for his entire life until he suffered a stroke at age 60. he now has a communication impairment due to aphasia related to his stroke. His aphasia diagnosis would be considered a ______ communication disorder

Answer 5

Acquired and Organic

Question 6

Jim and Susan are engaged in conversation. Susan listens to Jims information periodically nodding her head, making eye contact and smiling. Susan is providing Jim with what kind of non verbal communication

Answer 6

Body language

Question 7

List three members of the Interdisciplinary team that speech-language pathologists and/or audiologists may work with when providing services to individuals with various communication disorders

Answer 7

1. Nurses
2. Occupational therapist
3. Primary care physician

Question 8

True or False: Jim and Susan are engaged in a conversation. Susan listens to Jim’s verbal information, periodically nodding her head, making eye contact, and smiling. In this scenario, Jim is decoding the information and Susan is encoding the information

Answer 8

False

Question 9

List one strategy or technique that speech-language pathologist and/ pr audiologist should utilize when using an interpreter to provide services to clients.

Answer 9

Clear communication

Question 10

What best describes a standardized speech pathology assessment

Answer 10

Increased time to administer, assess specific skills requires more extensive training, expensive to administer

Question 11

Cathy is a senior in high school and is applying to college. she takes the SAT test and her scores place her at the 60th percentile. This means

Answer 11

60% of students taking the SAT achieved her same score or lower
60% of students taking the SAT achieved a better score than her

Question 12

True or False: A screaming tool typically provides only a pass-or-fail outcome

Answer 12

true

Question 13

Evidence base practice involves the integration of which of the following?

Answer 13

client/ patient/ caregiver perspectives
using existing research/ evidence to support clinical decision-making.
Using clinical judgment, expertise

Question 14

ASHA Identifies which clinical duty as a primary responsibility of the SLP and audiology professions?

Answer 14

Prevention

Question 15

Which of the following is true about speech

Answer 15

it involves movements of the lips, tongue, vocal folds, and soft palate.
it is a neuromuscular process of transmitting language through sound.

Question 16

What is the movable articulators?

Answer 16

Soft Palate (velum)
Mandible ( Jaw)
Pharynx

Question 17

What is the difference between the production of the phonemes “f” and “s” is

Answer 17

Place of production

Question 18

what is the position of the ____ is the primary determiner of different vowel production

Answer 18

Tongue

Question 19

Which numbered area of the brain is responsible for controlling the body’s movements, coordination, balance, and motor skills.

Answer 19

Cerebellum (5)

Question 20

Which area of the brain would contain Wernicke’s area?

Answer 20

Occipital lobe (6)

Question 21

Kevin was involved in a car accident and had a traumatic brain injury. He now has difficulties controlling his anger often swearing at inappropriate times and places, making food decisions for daily problems and organizing himself for the completion of school activities. Based on this information, Kevin most likely had damage to which area of his brain?

Answer 21

Frontal lobe ( 2)

Question 22

Elmer is 90 years old and recently had to have all of his teeth pulled. While he is waiting to receive his dentures, his family notices that his speech is less clear and precise than it used to be. His lack of teeth has negatively impacted one of the 4 components of the motor speech system?

Answer 22

Articulation

Question 23

Semantics relates to which domain of language skill development?

Answer 23

Content

Question 24

In typical language development, children begin to use 2 word phrases at approximately what age

Answer 24

2 years old

Question 25

How many morphemes are in the following message: Big doggies walking faster mommy

Answer 25

8 Morphemes

Question 26

A letter or letters that represents a sound in a word is a

Answer 26

Grapheme

Question 27

True or False: A typically developing child born in Portugal will begin to babble at an earlier age than a typically developing child in America

Answer 27

False

Question 28

Fatima is learning English as a second language. What type of error is present in her message: She is a girl very nice”

Answer 28

Syntactic

Question 29

In a typically developing child use of “mama”, dada comprehension of the word no and speaking of their first word typically occurs around what age

Answer 29

12 Months

Question 30

Johnny is 5 years old and frequently says certain words incorrectly. For example, he says ‘tan’ for fan pink for the sink and dumps for the jump. based on the evaluation the SLP concludes that Johnny has difficulties with learning the rules for when to appropriately use fricatives in words and instead is consistently substituting stop consonants. Given these data, Johnny has

Answer 30

A phonological processing disorder

Question 31

List 1 task/ activity that would be considered as part of a standard speech assessment?

Answer 31

Case history

Question 32

Mary is an SLP who is working with a child client who has a phonological processing disorder. She would like to implement a minimal pairs/minimal opposition treatment approach. Which set of words would be considered an appropriate minimal pair

Answer 32

tea/key

Question 33

Susie is unable to produce the ‘th’ sound because she has ankyloglossua (aka tongue tie’. this error occurs in all words that contains the ‘th’ sound and is the only speech error she has. Her SLP concludes that Susie has

Answer 33

An articulation disorder

Question 34

True or False: A typically developing child should achieve mastery of the phonemes in the English language by approximately age 8

Answer 34

True

Question 35

List one piece of information that an SLP would want to gather as part of a case history interview when conducting a language evaluation.

Answer 35

of a parent has a speech problem

Question 36

True or False: To be considered a bilingual speaker, an individual must be able to speak the 2 ( or more) language with the same degree of skill and proficiency

Answer 36

False

Question 37

Eric is an SLP who is conducting a language evaluation with 4 year old, Kevin. Eric engages Kevin in conversation by playing with various toys and asking him questions. Afterward, Eric determines that Kevin has a 2.5 mean length of utterance with syntax errors. What language evaluation tasks best describe what Eric did?

Answer 37

Language sampling

Question 38

Bobby’s mother has been trained by the SLP to talk about what bobby does in order to model language. When bobby is playing with blocks, building a castle, his mother says “ You’re building a big castle.” “ Uh-oh, it fell down.” This is an example of bobby’s mother using what therapy technique

Answer 38

Parallel Talk

Question 39

what statement is true about stuttering

Answer 39

Boys are more likely than girls to develop a fluency disorder
girls tend to have an earlier age of onset for stuttering than boys
occurs in all languages around the world

Question 40

William has a significant fluency disorder. he always stutters when introducing himself to others using his legal name therefore, he always introduces himself by his nickname Billy. this is an example of what kind of fluency behavior

Answer 40

avoidance behavior

Question 41

True or Flase: One feature that distinguishes cluttering from stuttering is that people who are diagnosed with cluttering are aware of their speech errors and anxious about speaking

Answer 41

False

Question 42

Jack has been trained by his SLP to use the following techniques to improve his fluency skills when speaking: continuous phonation, reducing his rate of speech and using east onset when speaking. These are all examples of fluency treatment approaches

Answer 42

fluency shaping treatment

Question 43

list 1 factor that can increase the risk of a child being born with a cleft lip and/ or palate

Answer 43

Mothers poor health (diet)
Smoking
Alcohol

Question 44

which profession would not be considered as part of a cleft lip and palate management team

Answer 44

Neurologist

Question 45

Children with that type of cleft typically have issues with hypernasality and nasal emission.

Answer 45

Bilateral cleft lip and palate
Cleft palate

Question 46

True or False: the majority of children will continue to present with a communication disorder following cleft repair, thus speech treatment is frequently necessary

Answer 46

False

Question 47

Which of the following is NOT a primary area of concern for children with cleft lips and/ or palates?

Answer 47

Intellectual development

Question 48

what fluency disorder is this “ it’s its its ( silent pause) time to go home now

Answer 48

repetition and blocking