Misc. Questions Taken From Practice Praxis Tests

Question 1

Repetition skills are better preserved in (transcortical motor aphasia; broca’s; global aphasia; or wernickes)

Answer 1

transcortical motor aphasia

Question 2

A specialist uses a bright light source and a small, round, 21–25-mm mirror angled on a long slender handle to lift the velum and press gently against her patient’s posterior pharyngeal wall. Next, the specialist maneuvers the mirror to view the laryngeal structures during quiet respiration and while the patient is producing “eeee.” This procedure is known as ____________

Answer 2

indirect laryngoscopy.

Question 3

infant had bursts and pauses, with about two up-and-down cycles of the jaw per second. this is called..

Answer 3

non-nutritive sucking

Question 4

Which one of the following would NOT be predictable based on the student’s first language of Mandarin?

Answer 4

Substitutions of f/th (e.g., fick/thick).

PREDICTABLE OF MANDARIN SPEAKERS:

• Substitutions of t/th (e.g., tin/thin)
• Epenthesis in words with consonant blends
• Confusions of /r/ and /l/

Question 5

Carhart’s notch is …

Answer 5

a specific loss at 2,000 Hz, as indicated by bone-conduction testing.

Question 6

Which one of the following patterns (in English) would you NOT expect to find in a student who speaks Korean?

Answer 6

Substitution of t/k (e.g., tea/key)

PREDICTABLE OF KOREAN SPEAKERS:
Substitution of a/ae (e.g., bock/back)
Final consonant deletion (e.g., be–/bed)
Confusion of r/l (e.g., glow/grow, lay/ray)

Question 7

What would be an example of the use of the perfective construction been to indicate an action that took place in the distant past?

Answer 7

“I been had chicken pox when I was 5.”

Question 8

Surgical procedure in which a small incision will be made in Adam’s tympanic membranes to relieve pressure. This procedure is known as what?

Answer 8

myringotomy (NOT PE tubes!!)

Question 9

Surgical procedure to repair a ruptured tympanic membrane is called what?

Answer 9

myringoplasty

Question 10

Distinguishing features of neurogenic stuttering include..

Answer 10

disfluencies on function words and in imitated speech, lack of adaptation, minimal or no effect of masking noise.

Question 11

How should you begin assessing a 20-yr-old man with TBI?

Answer 11

Pragmatic language skills, production of speech sounds, and comprehension of spoken language skills should be among the main targets of assessment.

Question 12

A study that is used to quantify the time and frequency of gastroesophageal reflux into the esophagus is called..

Answer 12

a pH probe or intraluminal pH monitoring study.

Question 13

A 55-year old man comes to you stating that he has been sounding hoarse for the last few months. He also states that he has difficulty swallowing, ear pain, and a lump in his neck. He shares with you that he has an ongoing sore throat. You suspect that his diagnosis will probably be:

Answer 13

laryngeal cancer

Question 14

T/F: Some forms of dementia, caused by a toxic reaction to medication, are reversible, especially in their early stages.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

You would diagnose a disorder of fluency (stuttering) when the disfluencies in speech reach..

Answer 15

5% of the words spoken.

Question 16

The Blom-Singer prosthetic device is used by laryngectomees to..

Answer 16

shunt air from the trachea to the esophagus so that the patient can speak on pulmonary air that enters the esophagus.

Question 17

Speech reception thresholds (SRTs) are..

Answer 17

the lowest levels of hearing at which a person can understand 50% of the words presented.

Question 18

freq = _______; intensity = _________.

Answer 18

freq=jitter; intensity=shimmer.

Question 19

condition in which the surface tissues of the soft or hard palate fuse, but the underlying muscle or bone tissues do not?

Answer 19

Submucous or occult cleft palate

Question 20

rating scale of 1-4 for nasality would be a _______ scale.

Answer 20

ordinal

Question 21

To determine hearing loss for a 4-yr-old what test do you give?

Answer 21

Rinne Test

Question 22

Describe the “response cost method” for working with children who stutter.

Answer 22

Present a token for each fluent production and withdraw a token for each disfluency.

Question 23

You decide to use gestural-assisted augmentative and alternative communication with a child who has some proficiency in American Sign Language. Which type of symbols would be helpful to use in this situation?

Answer 23

Sig symbols

Question 24

To make distinctions between similar-sounding words like “I scream” and “ice cream,” she uses a combination of suprasegmentals such as intonation and pausing, which mark special distinctions or grammatical divisions in speech. This type of vocal punctuation is also called

Answer 24

juncture

Question 25

Which pattern would NOT be typical for a Spanish-speaking student in terms of predictable productions based on Spanish influence?

Answer 25

ch/f substitutions (e.g., chan/fan)

PREDICTABLE OF SPANISH SPEAKERS:

• a/ae substitutions (e.g., block/black)
• Devoicing of final consonants (e.g., luff/love)
• t/th substitutions (e.g., ting/thing)
• Insertion of schwa before word-initial /s/ clusters
• b/v substitutions

Question 26

Which articulation difference is NOT commonly observed among Asian speakers of English as a second language?

Answer 26

t/k substitution (e.g., tin/kin)

PREDICTABLE OF ASIAN SPEAKERS:

• Confusion of /r/ and /l/
• Substitution of a/ae (e.g., shock/shack)
• Shortening of polysyllabic words

Question 27

A silent prolongation is

Answer 27

the same as an articulatory posture without voicing.

Question 28

Broca’s area = Brodmann’s area ___?

Answer 28

44 and 45

Question 29

You are developing a treatment program for a 30-year-old man with a long history of stuttering. Your brief trial therapy suggests that he could benefit from a fluency shaping procedure. You are now developing specific treatment targets that you would teach. What would those targets be, and in what order would they be taught?

Answer 29

Airflow management, gentle phonatory onset, and syllable prolongation, taught in that order.

Question 30

How should you advise a transgender client for someone transitioning to female?

Answer 30

A combination of counseling, surgery, and voice therapy to teach more feminine pitch levels and communication patterns would be the best course of action.

Question 31

What does the cover-body theory of phonation state?

Answer 31

The epithelium, the superficial layer of the lamina propria, and much of the intermediate layer of the lamina propria vibrate as a “cover” on a relatively stationary “body” that is made up of the remainder of the intermediate layer, the deep layer, and the TA muscle.

Question 32

interference or transfer refers to

Answer 32

an error in a student’s second language that is directly produced by the influence of the first language.

Question 33

What are single-subject designs? (describe them, what they are useful for, and state one disadvantage)

Answer 33

• The B phase is the treatment phase.
• They are useful in establishing treatment efficacy.
• The multiple-baseline design avoids the disadvantage of treatment withdrawal.
• A disadvantage is that they cannot efficiently predict the behavior of groups of individuals.

Question 34

T/F: both normal and abnormal brain waves may be found in people who stutter.

Answer 34

True

Question 35

A researcher who was developing a new test of language acquisition in children correlated the scores of children studied with the scores on an established test of known validity. What kind of validity is this?

Answer 35

Concurrent validity.

Question 36

when vibrating objects return to equilibrium, air molecules become thinner… this is called

Answer 36

rarefaction

Question 37

What is a typical production that a 70-yr-old man would say of English influenced by his primary language of Cantonese and not necessarily his current neurological status?

Answer 37

“She coming over here now.”

maybe omitting the verb “is” is common of second language learners?

Question 38

What statement best characterizes the “discrete trial procedure?”

Answer 38

It is the most researched procedure, and it is useful in establishing the skills, but it may not promote generalization to natural settings.

Question 39

An investigator carries out a study to answer the question of whether an increased rate of sibling speech causes an increase in the frequency of stuttering in children. After pretesting rates of stuttering in selected children and the speech rate of their siblings, the investigator tells the siblings in the control group to speak as they normally would at home. She tells the siblings in the experimental group to speak much more rapidly than they would at home. In this study, what is the dependent variable?

Answer 39

Rates of stuttering in the children in both groups

Question 40

Disorders of the oral phase of a swallow are mainly due to

Answer 40

an anterior, as opposed to a posterior, tongue movement

Question 41

In the scientific method, what is the experiment-first-and-explain-later approach?

Answer 41

Inductive method

Question 42

Public Law 99-457?

Answer 42

• It increased federal support for services to children with disabilities 3-6 yrs and provided funding for infants/toddlers.
• It requires the development of IEP plans.
• It allows at-risk preschool children to be eligible for special education services.