SLPA NC BOARD EXAM 2026 EXAMINATION
TEST COMPLETE Q&A WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS
◉ What is a treatment protocol? Answer: Written guideline that
specifies therapy frequency, duration, and type of service. Also has
goals, skilled interventions, antecedents, cues/prompts, and
consequences used during the session.
◉ As an SLPA, why is it important to be culturally competent?
Answer: As an SLPA, you are able to treat the client to the best of
your ability, while being sensitive to any cultural differences that you
may have to adapt to in order to treat the client properly.
◉ What are the different levels of cueing and what do they include?
Answer: 1. Model- show child exactly what to do
2. Verbal Model- tell child exactly what to do
3. Tactile Model- use touch to help the child
4. Verbal Prompt- start to say what the child is supposed to say
5. Verbal Re-Cue- repeat your verbal cues, expanding on it as needed
6. Verbal Cue- tell the child what to do, ex. "Find the ball"
7. Visual Cue- use visual support to cue "pictures"
8. Gestural Cue- use gestures to help the child
,9. Independent- no help given
◉ What is Apraxia? Answer: Acquired oral motor speech disorder
affecting an individual's ability to translate conscious speech pairs
into motor plans, which results in limited difficult speech ability.
◉ What are the components of a SOAP Note? Answer: (S):
subjective- data that includes the concerns of the family member(s)
or individual and subjective observations by the SLP/SLPA
(O): objective- data includes specific clinical findings, test results,
and a summary of the data collected during the therapy session
(A): assessment- compares the client's performance across sessions
(P): plan- states the course of action to be followed
◉ What is Baseline Data? Answer: Data before intervention starts
◉ What is a phonological disorder? Answer: Speech sound disorder
that focuses on predictable rule based on errors such as fronting,
stopping, and final consonant deletion.
◉ What is the difference between extension and expansion? Answer:
Extension- add more information to the child's utterances.
Expansion- keep the child's word order the same we just expand it
slightly to make the utterances grammatically correct.
,◉ What is the difference between communication and language?
Answer: Communication- exchange of ideas, information or
messages from one person to another.
Language- how we express what we think or how we feel.
◉ What are some non linguistic cues? Answer: Gestures, body
posture, facial expressions, eye contact, head and body movement,
physical distance (proxemics)
◉ What are a few compensatory strategies used for stuttering
(disfluent speech)? Answer: 1. Sliding or pullouts
2. Relaxing the stutter
3. Catching the stutter
4. Intentional stuttering
5. Easy stuttering/fluent stuttering
6. Bouncing
7. Cancellation
8. Preparatory set
9. Light contact
10. Slower speech rates
11. Relaxed breath patterns
12. Slow/stretched speech
, 13. Easy onset
14. Pausing and chunking
◉ What is an articulation disorder? Answer: Difficulty in the
production of individual speech sounds
◉ What is an language disorder? Answer: Difficulty in
comprehension, speaking, writing, and other forms of language.
◉ Define a fluency disorder Answer: "Bumpy speech" characterized
by non-smooth and interrupted speech
◉ What is the purpose of communication? Answer: Processing and
passing of messages between sender and receiver effectively
◉ What 4 systems do we need for speech? Answer: 1. Respiratory
2. Phonatory
3. Articulatory
4. Nervous system
◉ Why is dialect important? Answer: Depending on the client's
dialect is how they will pronounce or have certain names for certain
things
TEST COMPLETE Q&A WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS
◉ What is a treatment protocol? Answer: Written guideline that
specifies therapy frequency, duration, and type of service. Also has
goals, skilled interventions, antecedents, cues/prompts, and
consequences used during the session.
◉ As an SLPA, why is it important to be culturally competent?
Answer: As an SLPA, you are able to treat the client to the best of
your ability, while being sensitive to any cultural differences that you
may have to adapt to in order to treat the client properly.
◉ What are the different levels of cueing and what do they include?
Answer: 1. Model- show child exactly what to do
2. Verbal Model- tell child exactly what to do
3. Tactile Model- use touch to help the child
4. Verbal Prompt- start to say what the child is supposed to say
5. Verbal Re-Cue- repeat your verbal cues, expanding on it as needed
6. Verbal Cue- tell the child what to do, ex. "Find the ball"
7. Visual Cue- use visual support to cue "pictures"
8. Gestural Cue- use gestures to help the child
,9. Independent- no help given
◉ What is Apraxia? Answer: Acquired oral motor speech disorder
affecting an individual's ability to translate conscious speech pairs
into motor plans, which results in limited difficult speech ability.
◉ What are the components of a SOAP Note? Answer: (S):
subjective- data that includes the concerns of the family member(s)
or individual and subjective observations by the SLP/SLPA
(O): objective- data includes specific clinical findings, test results,
and a summary of the data collected during the therapy session
(A): assessment- compares the client's performance across sessions
(P): plan- states the course of action to be followed
◉ What is Baseline Data? Answer: Data before intervention starts
◉ What is a phonological disorder? Answer: Speech sound disorder
that focuses on predictable rule based on errors such as fronting,
stopping, and final consonant deletion.
◉ What is the difference between extension and expansion? Answer:
Extension- add more information to the child's utterances.
Expansion- keep the child's word order the same we just expand it
slightly to make the utterances grammatically correct.
,◉ What is the difference between communication and language?
Answer: Communication- exchange of ideas, information or
messages from one person to another.
Language- how we express what we think or how we feel.
◉ What are some non linguistic cues? Answer: Gestures, body
posture, facial expressions, eye contact, head and body movement,
physical distance (proxemics)
◉ What are a few compensatory strategies used for stuttering
(disfluent speech)? Answer: 1. Sliding or pullouts
2. Relaxing the stutter
3. Catching the stutter
4. Intentional stuttering
5. Easy stuttering/fluent stuttering
6. Bouncing
7. Cancellation
8. Preparatory set
9. Light contact
10. Slower speech rates
11. Relaxed breath patterns
12. Slow/stretched speech
, 13. Easy onset
14. Pausing and chunking
◉ What is an articulation disorder? Answer: Difficulty in the
production of individual speech sounds
◉ What is an language disorder? Answer: Difficulty in
comprehension, speaking, writing, and other forms of language.
◉ Define a fluency disorder Answer: "Bumpy speech" characterized
by non-smooth and interrupted speech
◉ What is the purpose of communication? Answer: Processing and
passing of messages between sender and receiver effectively
◉ What 4 systems do we need for speech? Answer: 1. Respiratory
2. Phonatory
3. Articulatory
4. Nervous system
◉ Why is dialect important? Answer: Depending on the client's
dialect is how they will pronounce or have certain names for certain
things
