Childhood Language Disorders
Acquired Language Disorders
Fluency Disorders
Speech Sound Disorders
Voice Disorders
100

  1. True or false: standardized assessments are the only important part of a comprehensive diagnostic assessment.

    1. True

    2. False

False

100

  1. Hemiparesis refers to:

    1. The loss of language ability following a stroke

    2. Difficulty producing speech sounds

    3. Weakness on one side of the body following a brain injury

    4. A hoarse voice quality

3. Weakness on one side of the body following a brain injury

100

  1. When do we suspect a child is at risk of a fluency disorder?

    1. 3 or more within-word speech disfluencies per 100 words

    2. Parents and/or others in child’s environment express concern that the child stutters

    3. Both a and b

3. Both a and b

100

  1. True or false: Linguistic factors contribute to articulation disorders, and a child with an articulation disorder would have many sounds in error and be very unintelligible.

    1. True

    2. False 

2. False

100

  1. True or false: Breathy voice occurs when the vocal folds are vibrating but not fully adducted during phonation.

    1. True

    2. False

1. True

200

  1. Which of the following is NOT a risk factor for language disorders?

    1. Hearing impairment

    2. Drug exposure

    3. Infection

    4. Normal birth weight

4. Normal birth weight

200

  1. Which of the following aphasia types is characterized by severe deficits in expressive language AND receptive language?

    1. Broca’s Aphasia

    2. Wernicke’s Aphasia

    3. Global Aphasia

    4. Anomic Aphasia

3. Global Aphasia

200

  1. A person who stutters who blinks, purses their lips, or changes their words is using:

    1. A cancellation

    2. Secondary behaviors

    3. A pull out

    4. A primary behavior

2. Secondary behaviors

200

  1. Which of the following is a LATER developing sound?

    1. /m/ as in “mama”

    2. /b/ as in “baby”

    3. /r/ as in “rat”

    4. /d/ as in “dog”

3. /r/ as in “rat”

200

  1. One recommendation for a patient with spasmodic dysphonia is:

    1. BOTOX injection

    2. Laryngectomy (removal of the larynx)

    3. Referral to a psychologist for counseling

    4. Intubation

1. BOTOX injection

300

  1. A language disorder in the area of form would most likely include which of the following?

a. Grammatical errors

b. Word recall difficulties

c. Difficulty turn-taking

d. A lisp

a. Grammatical errors

300

A speech-language pathologist is working with an adult client with a brain injury who is able to identify a stove by pointing to it, but is unable to recall the word to name a picture of a stove.  

This type of naming difficulty can be referred to as:

A.  Dysarthria

B.  Anomia

C.  Dysphagia

D.  Jargon

B.  Anomia

300

  1. A patient who is undergoing stuttering therapy is taught to hold and tolerate a moment of stuttering.  This is an example of:

    1. Changing talking

    2. Changing stuttering

2. Changing stuttering

300

  1. Which of the following is an example of a phonetic placement cue?

    1. If the child says “cape” as “tape”, play games where child names both “cape” and “tape”

    2. “Bite your lip and blow” to make /f/

    3. Blowing bubbles

2. “Bite your lip and blow” to make /f/

300

  1. In psychogenic cases of voice disorders:

    1. The patient can still gargle, cough or laugh

    2. Aphonia or dysphonia is present without evidence of a physical pathology

    3. There is a visually identifiable pathology present

    4. Both 1 and 2

4. Both 1 and 2

400

The following is a conversation taking place between three boys (age 7 years, all speakers of Standard American English) who are playing baseball:

Derek:  That mine glove.

Alex:  The one by the gate?

Paul:  What’s a gate?

  1. Which is the most appropriate description for Derek’s language:

A. Semantic Error

B. Syntax Error

C. Pragmatic Error

B. Syntax Error

400

  1. Which of the following best describes circumlocution?

    1. Nonsense words

    2. Talking around a word

    3. Incorrect words

    4. Disrupted rhythm

2. Talking around a word

400

  1. When describing disfluencies, sound prolongations are best defined as:

    1. Repeating sounds in words

    2. Holding a sound for a long period of time

    3. Repeating a whole word

    4. Saying “like” or “um” excessively

2. Holding a sound for a long period of time

400

  1. Velar fronting is:


    1. A normal phonological process in which alveolar sounds are replaced with velar sounds (e.g., /t/ → /k/)

    2. A normal phonological process in which velar sounds are replaced with alveolar sounds (e.g., /k/ → /t/)

    3. An abnormal phonological process which should never occur

    4. An normal phonological process in which the first syllable of multi-syllable words is repeated

2. A normal phonological process in which velar sounds are replaced with alveolar sounds (e.g., /k/ → /t/)

400

  1. Which of the following voice disorders is classified as an organic voice disorder?

    1. nodules

    2. polyps

    3. spasmodic dysphonia

    4. papilloma

4. papilloma

500

  1.  A child with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) would most likely have difficulty with which of the following?

    1. articulating the /s/ phoneme

    2. producing a grammatically correct sentence

    3. motor planning for speech

    4. fine motor skills

2. producing a grammatically correct sentence

500

  1. True or False: Left Neglect is a common symptom exhibited by people who have exhibited a left hemisphere stroke.

    1. True

    2. False

2. False

500

  1. Which of the following is an example of a constitutional factor related to the etiology of stuttering?

    1. Environment

    2. Social skills

    3. Temperament

    4. Language skills

3. Temperament

500

Consider the following speech errors produced by a 3 year old:

Target word:        Child’s production of the word:
Sue                Zoo

Tan                Dan

Pie                Buy

Fan                Van

Came             Game


  1. These all reflect errors of

    1. Substitutions 

    2. Omissions

    3. Distortions

    4. Additions

1. Substitutions

500

  1. Post laryngectomy patients that communicate with a hand held, battery-powered vibrator placed against the throat are using which mode of communication?

    1. Electrolarynx

    2. Esophageal speech

    3. Tracheoesophageal speech

    4. None of the above

1. Electrolarynx

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