PRAXIS 23/24 Flashcards
In the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, the patient has more ..?
more cognition problems than language problems
A 6 year old with a speech sound disorder needs intervention to address phonological awareness as well as articulation. The clinician works with her on the task: “I am going to say some words….can you tell me what word these sounds make? C-O-S-T.” The clinician has addressed the client’s skills in the area of:
Phoneme blending
When considering an infant’s readiness for oral feeding, all of the following must be taken into account, EXCEPT which:
(severity of medical condition, gestational age, chronological age, behavioral state)
chronological age
The concrete operations stage of cognitive development, defined by Piaget, occurs at what age?
7-11 years
A 10-year-old with specific language impairment would most likely show which characteristic?
- good social skills despite lmtd expressive language
- difficulty with figurative language
- normal phonological awareness skills despite difficulty w/ reading comprehension
- no problems with morphology despite lmtd syntax
difficulty with figurative language
What is the primary cause of the “sucking” motion of the vocal folds toward one another?
Decreased air pressure between the vocal folds
You hear Luis, a chid from Mexico, playing with his friends on the playground at recess. One of the friends has a birthday. You hear Luis say things like “Cuantos años tienes? Can I have some cake? Feliz cumpleaños!
Let’s play with your new ball!” It is clear that Luis is…
exhibiting code-switching, a typical linguistic behavior for persons who are bilingual
What are the biological functions of the larynx?
- Closure of the trachea to prevent food from entering the lungs
- Production of the cough reflex to expel foreign substances from the trachea
- Closure of the vocal folds to build subglottic pressure
Which term describes a child’s ability to mentally sort speech stimuli or remember what he or she has heard?
auditory memory
You are conducting therapy with Jennifer, a teenager with a language impairment. You are addressing her skills in the area of cohesion because her teachers and parents report that this is an area of difficulty for her. Cohesion is defined as….
ordering and organizing utterances in a message so they build logically on one another
A child shows the presence of phonological patterns such as epenthesis, final consonant deletion, and cluster reduction. He is demonstrating the use of:
patterns affecting syllable structure
Contact ulcers may be caused by all of the following EXCEPT :
- chronic throat clearing
- hard glottal attacks
- intubation
- psychogenic problems
psychogenic problems
When carcinoma affects the cricoid and trachea, the damage is
subglottic
A school teacher refers Max, an African American second grader, for speech assessment. According to the teacher, “Max does not always say his words correctly.” The clinician screens Max and finds that he uses AAE. She decides to carry out a formal evaluation to ascertain whether he has a speech difference or a disorder. The clinician finds that Max has one phonological pattern that is not typical of children who speak AAE, but the rest of his patterns are typical of AAE speakers. The clinician can accurately conclude that
Max should receive ST to teach him the correct production of the one articulatory pattern he produces that is not typical of speakers of AAE, but the clinician should NOT address patterns that are equivalent with those of his AAE-speaking peers.
Frances has aphasia and requires multiple prompts of task instructions. What cognitive function may be impaired?
short term memory
What is the term for the cognitive process that incorporates the temporary storage functions of STM with the manipulation and integration of information to achieve a cognitive goal?
working memory
Which of the following is the most important acoustic cue that distinguishes between an unreleased final /p/ and an unreleased final /b/, as in “cap” vs. “cab”
- Frequency of third formant
- locus frequency of burst
- voice onset time
- vocal fundamental frequency
- duration of the preceding vowel
duration of the preceding vowel
Which of the following substitutions is most likely to occur in conjunction with hyponasality?
- /ng/ for /k/
- /n/ for /d/
- /b/ for /m/
- glottal stop for /t/
- /m/ for /p/
- /b/ for /m/
Primary motor innervation to the larynx and velum is provided by which cranial nerve?
X- Vagus Nerve (10)
Which of the following formants typically characterizes a high vowel?
- High-frequency second formant (F2)
- High-frequency first formant (F1)
- Low-frequency first formant (F1)
- Low-frequency second formant (F2)
- Low-frequency first formant (F1)
The F1 is inversely associated with tongue height, such that high vowels tend to have low F1 frequencies.
What is the function of the mandible?
Chewing food
If a screening test for a specific disorder has high sensitivity and low specificity, what does this reveal about the test?
It may overidentify the cases of the disorder.
You are working in a hospital, and a 72-year-old patient is referred to you. She has difficulty paying attention to a conversation, staying on topic, remembering information, responding accurately, and following directions.
She most likely has
cognitive communication disorder
Which statement about the cranial nerves is correct?
- Cranial nerve XII is NOT concerned with speech.
- Cranial nerve VIll is concerned with the sense of smell.
- Cranial nerve I is concerned with labial sound articulation.
- Damage to cranial nerve VII causes a mask-like appearance.
Damage to cranial nerve VII causes a mask-like appearance.
Your client has difficulties producing /w/,/t/,/d/, and /th/. If you were to treat him using a least phonological knowledge approach, your first target sound in therapy would be
/th/
The resonant frequency of a cavity is dependent on which of the following?
Size and shape of the cavity
Disorders of the _______
result in rigidity; jerky and purposeless
movements (chorea; and slow, writhing, snakelike movements (athetosis)
basal ganglia
Which of the following is a commonly inherited disease that affects muscles associated with speech production?
Myotonic dystrophy
What is the function of the mandible?
Chewing food
A 5-year-old is brought to you for an evaluation. According to her mother, she has a history of middle-ear infections. Her mother reports that she is difficult to understand. She makes k/t and g/d substitutions, saying things like kou/tou. This child is manifesting the phonological process of
backing
What is injected into paralyzed vocal folds to increase bulk and possibly increase adduction?
Collagen
You are working with a client who has PD and speaks with a monotone. You are trying to help her intonation become more varied. You have her deliberately speak with a monotone over and over again to help increase her awareness of how she sounds, recording her on your phone and playing back the recording for her to listen to. You are employing the technique of ____?
negative practice
When a child makes errors like fou/jou and bot]/buj, this is called:
affrication
Primary function of ventricular folds?
Compress during coughing and lifting heavy items
Evaluating spelling proficiency can provide valuable diagnostic information. Poor spelling may reveal weaknesses in the following linguistic components EXCEPT:
- orthographic knowledge
- pragmatic knowledge
- morphological knowledge
- phonemic awareness
pragmatic knowledge
A classroom teacher refers a 10-year-old African American male student to you because she is concerned about his intelligibility. This teacher is anxious to avoid the mistake of mislabeling the student as having a “speech disorder” if he is merely manifesting characteristics of African American English (AAE). When you screen the boy, you find that he makes the following substitutions: d/m, f/n, and m/n. What do you do?
Provide intervention for the student, because this is a sign of an articulatory-phonological disorder involving substitutions of nasals with other sounds.
What is injected into paralyzed vocal folds to increase adduction?
Collagen
Primary function of bronchi in respiration?
Transport air from lungs to trachea
Damage to the cerebellum may cause a movement disorder called?
Ataxia
What cranial nerve innervates the infrahyoid muscles?
Cranial nerve XII (hypoglossal)
Examples of secondary stuttering include:
- whispering
- part word repetitions
- quivering of nostrils
- all of above
quivering of nostrils
Which of the following is true about the mandible?
- The alveolar arch is the part of the mandible that houses the teeth.
- The muscles of the mandible serve one major function: opening and closing of the mouth.
- The mandible is attached to the temporal bone of the skull by a joint called the temporomandibular joint.
- The tongue attaches to the mandible at several points.
The mandible is attached to the temporal bone of the skull by a joint called the temporomandibular joint.
You have a new client who can accurately produce the /t/ sound in the initial and final positions of syllables and the initial, medial, and final positions of words. They have inaccuracies with producing /t/ in phrases. According to the topographic levels of treatment, where should you begin treatment?
phrases
What is the role of the Medulla Oblongata in the brainstem?
Regulating heart rate and blood pressure
In therapy, you decide to use minimal pairs as part of your treatment plan to increase a child’s intelligibility. Which one of the following is NOT a minimal pair?
- me/meat
- duck/luck
- mud/moon
- pen/ten
mud/moon
Select the true statement:
- T-units are types of linguistic units.
- C-units may never contain incomplete sentences produced in response to questions.
- T-units contain an independent clause and one or more subordinate clauses
- C-units do not contain one or more independent clauses.
T-units contain an independent clause and one or more subordinate clauses
Which of the following statements is NOT true about single-subject designs?:
- They are useful in establishing treatment efficacy.
- The A phase is the treatment phase.
- The multiple-baseline design avoids the disadvantage of treatment withdrawal.
- A disadvantage of single-subject designs is that they cannot efficiently predict the behavior of groups of individuals.
The A phase is the treatment phase.
When carcinoma affects the cricoid and trachea, the damage is
SUBglottic
Halliday described seven communicative intent functions that develop between 9 and 18 months of age. Which of the following is an example of the heuristic function?:
- “More.” (said by a child with an empty juice glass)
- “Grandpa white car.”
- “I want cookie.”
- “Why doggy bark?”
“Why doggy bark?”
Which of the following is an example of a pragmatic approach to aphasia therapy?
- melodic intonation therapy
- deblocking
- focusing on conveying of ideas rather than linguistic content of message
- behavioral naming drills
focusing on conveying of ideas rather than linguistic content of message
You wish to assess a child’s phonemic awareness via phoneme manipulation. Select the example that applies to phoneme manipulation:
- Say ball without the /b/.
- Say dig. Now say it backward.
- Say seat. Now say seat, but change the /s/ and /t/ around.
- Here is a picture of a hotdog. I’ll say the first part of the word and you will complete it….Here is a hot_____
Say seat. Now say seat, but change the /s/ and /t/ around.
Which of the following structures are NOT involved in articulation?
- pharynx
- larynx
- nasal cavity
- teeth
larynx