Things I didn't know on practice tests Flashcards

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procedure that adds length to the soft palate and minimizes the contractile forces generated by palatal scar tissue.

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Furlow Z-plasty

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anterior displacement of a distinct portion of the posterior pharyngeal wall during speech

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Passavant’s Ridge

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Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, Respiration- test given right after birth to assess a newborn’s physical condition

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Apgar Scores

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an instrument used to measure the pressure of liquids and gasses

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manometer

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used to measure air volume or flow

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spirometer

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When is a baby ready to transition to solid foods?

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4 to 6 months

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What piece of legislation is credited as being the start of the inclusion movement in public schools?

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The Regular Education Initiative (REI) in 1985

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True or False

Individuals with spinal onset require motor speech intervention later than those with bulbar onset

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True

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What does the Ethics in Patient Referral Acts of 1989 state?

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It prohibits healthcare professionals from referring patients to entities in which they have financial interest

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provides a plot of amplitude of a waveform displayed over time

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oscilloscope

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Mr. Angelo has come to a speech language pathologist for a voice evaluation. His major complaint is difficulty altering the pitch of his voice. Which muscle and nerve are likely to be affected?

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Cricothyroid muscle and external branch of the superior laryngeal nerve

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True or False Low voels have higher F1 values than do high vowels

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True

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What articulators are involved in producing a pharyngeal fricative?

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Posterior pharyngeal wall and soft palate

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What standardaized test enables the measurement of vowel production accuracy?

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The Arizona Articulatioin Proficiency Scale-3

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This layer of the vocal fold helps to maintain the integrity of the vocal fold shape:

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Epithelium

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A set of words that are acousitcally similar and have approximately the same frequency of occurrence

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an acoustic lexical neighborhood

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used to measure impedance between the vocal folds in order to estimate degree of vocal fold contact

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electroglottography

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which syndrome is characterized by cardiac problems, velopharyngeal inadequacy, and typical facies (e.g., long face, almond-shaped eyes, broad nasal base)?

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velocardiofacial syndrome

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The medial pterygoid muscle plays an active role in closing jaws during pseech. Which muscle is considered the direct antagonist of the medial pterygoid muscle during speech?

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the anterior belly of the digastricus muscle

20
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According to McBride-Chang (1995) phonological awareness tasks require what three skills?

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  • reasoning
  • speech perception
  • memory skills
21
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What type of tympanogram is typically produced by a person with an interrupted ossicular chain?

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On the Mini-Mental State Examination, scores in what range would suggest that a patient has cognitive impairments correpsonding to moderate severity of dementia?

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What is the most anterior prominence of the arytenoid cartilage, where the vocal folds attach?

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the vocal process

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Who proposed the myoelastic-aerodynamic theory?

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Janwillem Van den Berg

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What carries out the elevation and lowering of the larynx for respiration and phonation?
the extrinsic laryngeal muscles
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the ratio of abductor to addutor duration in the larynx
speed quotient
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Men have a vital capacity of
4 to 5 liters
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Women have a vital capacity of
3 to 4 liters
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What is the prominence of the arytenoid cartialage that forms the attachment for the posterior and the lateral cricoarytenoid muslces?
the muscular process
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The phenomenon in which persons who stutter tend to have disfluencies more on clusters than would be expected by chance
adjacency effect
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Patients who have difficulty making nonspeech sounds and cannot move the muscles of the throat, soft palate, and tongue for nonspeech purposes
oral apraxia