Praxis Exam Review Questions 117 Questions And Answers

If a child's language exhibits the phonological process of gliding, the child might say [wɛd] for "red." When asked, "Do you mean wed?" the child may respond, "No! [wɛd]!" Such a response demonstrates which of the following?
a. phonological development lags behind semantic development
b. semantic development lags behind phonological development
c. linguistic competence lags behind linguistic performance
d. linguistic performance lags behind linguistic competence

For which of the following conditions is it most appropriate for the SLP to recommend that the patient's primary-care physician refer the patient to a prosthodontist for construction of a palatal-lift appliance?
a. submucous cleft palate
b. unrepaired cleft of the secondary palate
c. flaccid paralysis of the soft palate
d. congenitally short palate

A child with discourse problems is most likely to need remediation directed at which of the following?
a. morphology
b. an initial lexicon
c. gestural communication
d. cohesive devices

A 67-year old male patient with no history of swallowing problems has undergone a cardiothoracic surgical procedure. Postoperatively, he is found to be aspirating while swallowing and is diagnosed with a left vocal-fold paralysis and left and left pharyngeal paresis. Which of the following is the most likely etiology?
a. an intraoperative CVA in the right
b. damage to right recurrent laryngeal nerve
c. damage to the left recurrent laryngeal nerve
d. a left hemispheric stroke

An SLP who is treating an adolescent who stutters designs a treatment plan that includes three fluency management strategies: prolonged speech, cancellation, and pullout.
Which of the following is true about the use of these treatment strategies? Select all that apply.
a. Use of prolonged speech is likely to reduce the frequency of part-word repetitions and sound prolongations significantly
b. each of the three strategies entails deliberate regulation of speech motor movements
c. the client will seek to apply cancellation whenever he feels anxious about the possibility of stuttering overtly.
d. the client will seek to apply pullout during the course of part-word repetition or sound prolongation

Fiber-optic instrumentation is appropriate for evaluation of which of the following types of disorders?
a. articulation
b. phonation
c. proprioception
d. respiration

Establishment of which of the following is most important in ensuring that the results of any diagnostic test of speech or language are replicable?
a. content validity
b. interjudge reliability
c. split-half reliability
d. face validity

The most serious limitation of employing imitation as an intervention strategy for children with a language impairment is that imitation
a. lacks communicative intention
b. relies on semantic knowledge
c. is clinician controlled
d. is contextualized speech

Native speakers of a language posses several capacities or abilities that provide insight into their language competence. Sentences such as "visiting friends can be a nuisance" are especially useful to test a person's ability
a. recognize syntactic ambiguity
b. interpret metaphoric language
c. distinguish homophones by means of syntactic cues
d. recognize a semantically anomalous sentence

Which of the following muscles produces the opposing action to those that produce velopharyngeal closure?
a. musculus uvulae
b. levator veli palatini
c. palatoglossus
d. stylopharyngeus