Praxis Exam Questions 132 Questions And Answers

Ellen, an 80-year-old patient, was being seen for swallowing problems. She presents with minimal arousal and is unable to follow simple one-step commands to complete an oral mechanism examination. The clinician initiates ice chip trials as a part of the evaluation and notes oral acceptance and manipulation that is within normal limits; however, no pharyngeal swallow is noted as per palpation. The clinician, therefore, decides to trial exercises that stimulate the swallow reflex and determine Ellen's stimulability for trials. The following exercises are designed to stimulate the swallow reflex, except:
A.
Thermal stimulation
B.
Mendelsohn maneuver
C.
Practicing liquid swallow after stimulation
D.
Asking the patient to swallow after stimulation without food

2. One major distinction between the pyramidal and the extrapyramidal systems is that
A.
the pyramidal system controls voluntary and fine motor movements, whereas the extrapyramidal system controls the postural support for fine motor movement.
B.
unlike the pyramidal system, the extrapyramidal system has direct connections with lower motor neurons.
C.
the pyramidal system is an indirect activation system, whereas the extrapyramidal system is a direct activation system.
D.
the pyramidal system is important for speech production, but the extrapyramidal system plays no role in that activity.

3. Van Riper's approach to treating stuttering included all of the following except:
A.
Desensitization
B.
Modification
C.
Continuous phonation
D.
Motivation

4. With regard to human communication, which of the following viewpoints is a rule-based system of language codes for expressing and understanding thoughts, feelings, and ideas?
A.
Behavioral
B.
Analytical
C.
Theoretical
D.
Linguistic

5. A 70-year-old male has suffered a left cerebrovascular accident (CVA). His verbal output is considered to be fluent; however, he exhibits phonemic and semantic paraphasias, neologisms, empty speech, and lacks content words. He most likely presents with:
A.
Broca's aphasia
B.
Wernicke's aphasia
C.
Anomic aphasia
D.
Apraxia

6. The occurrence of stuttering on the same words upon repeated reading is known as:
A.
Adaptation effect
B.
Consistency effect
C.
Adjacency effect
D.
Audience size effect

7. A child is referred to a hospital-based clinician for assessment and treatment. In the child's chart, it is stated that the child has a syndrome caused by spontaneous autosomal dominant mutations. The gene and the locus of this syndrome is FGR2 at 10q25-26. The child has midfacial hypoplasia, an arched and grooved hard palate, and mild mental retardation. What does the child have?
A.
Trisomy 13
B.
Angelman syndrome
C.
Apert syndrome
D.
Turner syndrome

8. The following form of instrumental evaluation includes a pulsing light that permits the optical illusion of slow-motion viewing of the vocal folds:
A.
Electroglottography
B.
Videostroboscopy
C.
Electromyography
D.
Flexible fiber-optic laryngoscopy

9. Teasdale and Jennett (1974) helped bring uniformity to how level of consciousness is measured by introducing which evaluation tool?
A.
Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)
B.
Computerized tomography (CT)
C.
Western Neuro Sensory Stimulation Profile (WNSSP)
D.
The Comprehensive Level of Consciousness (CLOCS)

10. An audiologist is testing a client for acoustic immittance. She places a sound stimulus in her client's external ear canal with an airtight closure and measures changes in the acoustic energy as the sound stimulates the auditory system. What instrument is the audiologist using for this particular procedure?
A.
Otoscope
B.
Impedance bridge
C.
Audiometer
D.
Tympanic meter