Articulation & Phonology
By 48 months, children's speech should be ____% intelligible.
A. 80%
B. 50%
C. 100%
D. 75%
C. 100%
What is the average rate of speech for an adult
A. 125 WPM
B. 175 WPM
C. 270 WPM
D. None of the above
C. 270 WPM
Children are likely to recover completely from stuttering like disfluencies up until about what age ?
A. 3 years old
B. 9 years old
C. 6 years old
D. 2 1/2 years old
C. 6 years old
Muscle Tension Dysphonia is a condition related to voice production as a result of inappropriate use of the muscles around the larynx. What type of etiology can Muscle Tension Dysphonia be classified as?
A. Neurogenic
B. Organic
C. Functional
D. None of the above
C. Functional
Excess air through the nasal cavity on oral consonants describes what type of resonance?
A. Hypernasality
B. Nasal emission
C. Hyponasality
D. Cul-de-sac resonance
A. Hypernasality
Ankyloglossia may be an organic cause of an articulation or phonological disorder. Ankyloglossia is a medical term for what?
A. Cleft palate
B. Tongue spots
C. Enlarged tongue
D. Tongue tie
D. Tongue tie
Blake, a speech language pathologist, is creating his assessment plan for a pediatric evaluation he has later this week. Which of the following is an example of a formal measure used during assessment?
A. Language sample
B. criterion referenced test
C. developmental scale
D. behavioral observation
C. Developmental scales are formal assessment measures because they contain psychometric properties and assess overall achievement/ mastery of skill compared to peers.
Eye movements, twitching, phonation breaks are all examples of what overt features of stuttering ?
A. Core behaviors
B. Secondary behaviors
C. Primary behaviors
D. None of the above
E. All of the above
B. Secondary behaviors
___________ is a perturbation measure of frequency instability.
A. Shimmer
B. Jitter
C. Harmonics
D. Fundamental
B. Jitter
Which motor speech disorder is characterized by inconsistent articulation errors, groping, and difficulties with repetition tasks of increased complexity?
A. Dysarthria
B. Anarthria
C. Apraxia of Speech
D. Aphasia
E. All of the above
C. Apraxia of Speech
A. Number/ Type/ Consistency of errors (S.O.D.A)
B. Speech intelligibility
C. None of the above
D. Both A and B
D. Both A and B
A clinician administers the Language Achievement Test (LAT) to Bret, who is described as "low" in oral and written language skills. On LAT, Brett's overall score falls in the 25th percentile rank. This means that
A. Out of 100 children, 75 did better than Bret on the LAT and 25 children did worse.
B. 75% of the children in the LAT's normative sample did better than Brett
C. of children in the LAT's normative sample performed about the same as Brett did, but they scored 2-3 points higher on the test overall.
D. Brett scored about the same as 75% of fifth graders in the LAT's normative sample.
B. 75% of the children in the LAT's normative sample did better than Brett
What are formal assessments for fluency?
A. Severity scale
B. Covert Scale
C. The Overall Assessment of the Speaker's Experience of Stutter (OASES)
D. None of the above
E. All of the above
E. All of the above
Organic disorder is described as
A. Innervation to structure is impaired/damaged
B. Problem with structure
C. Non biological behavioral
D. None of the above
B. Problem with structure
Which motor speech disorder is characterized by a loss of coordination of articulators despite normal muscle function?
A. Dysarthria
B. Anarthria
C. Apraxia of Speech
D. Aphasia
C. Apraxia of Speech
A clinician working with a 3-year-old girl, Josie, who has a severe speech sound disorder, found the child very uncooperative. She hid under the table, threw therapy materials and cried. Ignoring the behaviors and admonishing her to sit quietly did not work. The clinician then began to praise Josie for sitting quietly for one minute and naming pictures; she also gave Josie a sticker for being a "good girl" during the preceding one minute. In gradual steps, the clinician extended the duration between verbal praise and presentation of stickers and eventually praised Josie only occasionally. The clinician has just used a procedure known as
A. Corrective feedback
B. Differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior
C. Time-out
D. Extinction
B. Differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior
After conducting a language sample on a conversational language user (older child) what pragmatic component should you evaluate by looking for "complete ties"?
A. Conversational repairs
B. Cohesive adequacy
C. Eye Contact
D. Attention
E. All of the above
B. Cohesive adequacy
A. to gather comprehensive overview of nature/impact of fluency disorder
B. Identify readiness and desire for treatment
C. to determine if the child needs treatment or if the disfluencies will recover without treatment
D. All of the above
C. to determine if the child needs treatment or if the disfluencies will recover without treatment
A. Measuring intensity level
B. Jitter (frequency)
C. Shimmer (amplitude)
D. Both B and C
E. None of the above
D. Both B and C
Which cerebral hemisphere can we suspect was damaged with the following symptoms: 1. Visual neglect 2. Discourse/pragmatic deficits 3. Poor awareness to deficits and 4. impulsive behaviors during daily tasks.
A. Right hemisphere
B. Left hemisphere
C. Can be either hemisphere need to see MRI report to confirm
D. Brainstem
A. Right hemisphere
When speaking, Johnny makes mistakes such as saying "top" for "stop" and "poon" for "spoon". This is characteristic of which type of phonological processing errors?
A. Assimilation processes
B. Substitution processes
C. Syllable structure processes
D. Metathesis
C. Syllable structure processes
Which of the following would be the most appropriate assessment material for a child in 5th grade with difficulties in content, form, and use?
A. CELF-5
B. GFTA-3
C. The Rossetti
D. SSI-4
A. CELF-5 is normed on children 5-21 and assesses language skills using a variety of different subtests.
What is the purpose of assessment of older children/ adults (7 + years old range) in fluency ?
A. to gather comprehensive overview of nature/impact of fluency disorder
B. Identify readiness and desire for treatment
C. to determine if the child needs treatment or if the disfluencies will recover without treatment
D. Both A and B
E. None of the above
D. Both A and B
False: The SLP can only treat voice disorders, the ENT provides the diagnoses
What are informal assessments used for Motor Speech Disorder
A. Reading passages
B. Repetition tasks
C. Perceptual judgment of voice and resonance
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
D. All of the above