Practice exam questions

Question 1

identify and describe the 4 key procedures obtaining assessment details

Answer 1

case history, OMA, speech/language sample, and a formal/published Ax tool

Question 2

Which CBOS unit describes the expected professional competencies for planning evidence-based speech pathology practices?

Answer 2

3 Planning evidence based Speech pathology practice

Question 3

Which of the following examples best represents a part syllable repetition stuttering behaviour:

1. my-my-my name is John
2. m-m-m-my name is John
3. my name-my name-my name is John
4. my …….. name is John

Answer 3

2. m-m-m-my name is John

Question 4

The term “aphasia” is used to describe:

1. The presence of involuntary disruptions occurring within a person’s speech
2. Speech that is slow or slurred and can be difficult to understand
3. The inability to comprehend or formulate language because of damage to specific brain regions
4. Difficulty chewing and swallowing

Answer 4

C

The inability to comprehend or formulate language because of damage to specific brain regions

Question 5

The phase of swallowing where food is chewed is called the :

Answer 5

Oral preparatory phase

Question 6

Identify and describe the two categories of adult motor speech disorders, clearly highlighting how they differ from each other.

Answer 6

they are acquired due to neurological event, neurological degenerative process or structural change.
1. Dysarthrias: ifficulty producing clear speech (individual sounds or connected speech), as a result of damage affecting muscle tone/co-ordination.

2.Dyspaxia: difficulty planning/programming speech output, without necessarily having impaired musculature or other language difficulty. This dyspraxia is an acquired dyspraxia, and is a little different to that found in childhood (Childhood apraxia of speech). Dyspraxia can present in oral (non-verbal) and verbal forms, meaning that you can have an apraxia that may affect only the oral movements, or both oral and verbal attempts.

Question 7

Evidence based practice involves the integration and utilisation of evidence from 3 key areas of evidence. Identify these 3 areas and briefly describe how you will use these to inform your clinical decision making.

Answer 7

research of evidence based literature, the knowledge that is based on previous experience and the clients personal preferences

Question 8

Describe the typical process of language production with reference to key neuro-anatomical structures.

Answer 8

Voice:
the lungs act as a source for power (airflow creates vibration=myoelastic aerodynamic theory) vocal folds close (adduct) this causes them to vibrate (rapid opening and closing=Bernoulli effect) in the airstream to create voice (pitch/tone, loudness, quality)
adduct-abduction are active forces by the muscles
stretching the vocal folds, makign them longer and thinner creates a higher pitch (airflow stays the same, the shape of the folds affect the pitch)
the vocal tract (including tongue, teeth and lips) acts as a filter/resonance chamber and modifies the sound that is produced