SLP Praxis II Practice Questions
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1. You are evaluating a 5-year-old boy whose mother has D. Low birth weight and
a history of alcohol abuse while she was carrying her length, behavior prob-
son. In your assessment, you would look for specific lems, and possible swal-
speech and language problems; in addition, you would lowing difficulties
look for which of the following positive or negative
signs?
A. Normal motor and intellectual development, normal
play activities, and normal facial and skull features
B. Language problems, but no speech problems, cou-
pled with good eye contact and generally compliant
behavior
C. Lack of gestures, good eye contact, and lack of at-
tachment to new people
D. Low birth weight and length, behavior problems,
and possible swallowing difficulties
2. An opera singer complains that she is unable to main- vital capacity
tain adequate breath support to produce her optimal
voice. You want to measure the singer's lung volume to
check for adequate breath support for optimal voice.
You will need to measure ___________, which is the vol-
ume of air that the singer can exhale after a maximal
inhalation.
3. You are assessing a 60-year-old woman for a possible buccofacial apraxia
diagnosis of aphasia. You are interested in finding out
the specific type of aphasia. You notice she has an
inability to whistle, cough, or wink on command. This
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condition alone might suggest which type of aphasia
that the woman has?
4. A patient comes to you complaining of a sore throat GERD
and hoarseness. After talking with the patient, you
discover that he often experiences heartburn and in-
digestion. You consult with the on-call physician who
mentions that this patients gastric contents are spon-
taneously emptying into his esophagus. The physician
diagnoses that the problem is...
5. When analyzing a client's speech-sample with an un- D. Surgical procedures.
repaired cleft palate, what determines the timing of
speech intervention?
A. Intelligibility
B. Misarticulations
C. Nasal Emission
D. Surgical procedures
6. A patient complains of aching pains, tingling sensa- A. Parkinson's disease.
tions and coldness. The SLP's evaluation reveals the
patient's voice is soft, breathy and hoarse. Other symp-
toms include a mask-like face with slurred speech that
sounds monotone. The clinician notices bradykinesia,
rigidity, tremors and impaired postural reflexes. What
is the likely diagnosis?
A. Apraxia
B. Parkinson's disease
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C. Vascular dementia
D. Huntington's disease.
7. You have just assessed an 85 year old man with a high B. Prognosis is guarded,
school education, significant hearing loss, poor motor but I recommend a period
skills, and uncontrolled blood pressure. Your diagnosis of trial therapy, at the end
is global aphasia. During your counseling at the end of of which I will have a better
assessment, his wife asks "What is the prognosis for idea
improvement in communication skills?" What would
be an appropriate answer?
A. prognosis is good for significant improvement in
communication, provided he receives 3 months of
therapy
B. Prognosis is guarded, but I recommend a period of
trial therapy, at the end of which I will have a better
idea
C. Prognosis is excellent, as long as you help sustain
any improvement gained in therapy
D. Prognosis is unfavorable, so we do not recommend
therapy
8. You are working in an elementary school setting. A B. You should perform a
classroom teacher comes to you to refer an 8-year-old complete head and neck
boy whose voice sounds consistently "hoarse" and evaluation.
"breathy" and gets more severe during recess and
lunch. The child does not display symptoms of stridor,
aspiration, or pain. As the speech-language patholo-
gist, what should you initially suggest based on the
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child's symptoms?
A. The child should be referred to an otolaryngologist.
B. You should perform a complete head and neck eval-
uation.
C. The child should go for a radiologic evaluation.
D. The child should try singing to see if there is a
difference in the voice.
9. A speech-language pathologist on a cleft palate and B. Ordinal scale
craniofacial team wishes to develop a simple measure
of hypernasality to begin quantifying (however sub-
jectively) the amount of hypernasality he hears in the
speech of the children seen by the team each month.
He will pass on this information to the plastic surgeon
and other team members to assist them in making
surgical decisions for each child. The speech-language
pathologist devises the following scale:
1 -- almost no hypernasality
2 -- slight hypernasality
3 -- moderate hypernasality
4 -- great amount of hypernasality
What is this type of scale called?
A. Logarithmic scale
B. Ordinal scale
C. Nominal scale
D. Interval scale
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1. You are evaluating a 5-year-old boy whose mother has D. Low birth weight and
a history of alcohol abuse while she was carrying her length, behavior prob-
son. In your assessment, you would look for specific lems, and possible swal-
speech and language problems; in addition, you would lowing difficulties
look for which of the following positive or negative
signs?
A. Normal motor and intellectual development, normal
play activities, and normal facial and skull features
B. Language problems, but no speech problems, cou-
pled with good eye contact and generally compliant
behavior
C. Lack of gestures, good eye contact, and lack of at-
tachment to new people
D. Low birth weight and length, behavior problems,
and possible swallowing difficulties
2. An opera singer complains that she is unable to main- vital capacity
tain adequate breath support to produce her optimal
voice. You want to measure the singer's lung volume to
check for adequate breath support for optimal voice.
You will need to measure ___________, which is the vol-
ume of air that the singer can exhale after a maximal
inhalation.
3. You are assessing a 60-year-old woman for a possible buccofacial apraxia
diagnosis of aphasia. You are interested in finding out
the specific type of aphasia. You notice she has an
inability to whistle, cough, or wink on command. This
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condition alone might suggest which type of aphasia
that the woman has?
4. A patient comes to you complaining of a sore throat GERD
and hoarseness. After talking with the patient, you
discover that he often experiences heartburn and in-
digestion. You consult with the on-call physician who
mentions that this patients gastric contents are spon-
taneously emptying into his esophagus. The physician
diagnoses that the problem is...
5. When analyzing a client's speech-sample with an un- D. Surgical procedures.
repaired cleft palate, what determines the timing of
speech intervention?
A. Intelligibility
B. Misarticulations
C. Nasal Emission
D. Surgical procedures
6. A patient complains of aching pains, tingling sensa- A. Parkinson's disease.
tions and coldness. The SLP's evaluation reveals the
patient's voice is soft, breathy and hoarse. Other symp-
toms include a mask-like face with slurred speech that
sounds monotone. The clinician notices bradykinesia,
rigidity, tremors and impaired postural reflexes. What
is the likely diagnosis?
A. Apraxia
B. Parkinson's disease
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C. Vascular dementia
D. Huntington's disease.
7. You have just assessed an 85 year old man with a high B. Prognosis is guarded,
school education, significant hearing loss, poor motor but I recommend a period
skills, and uncontrolled blood pressure. Your diagnosis of trial therapy, at the end
is global aphasia. During your counseling at the end of of which I will have a better
assessment, his wife asks "What is the prognosis for idea
improvement in communication skills?" What would
be an appropriate answer?
A. prognosis is good for significant improvement in
communication, provided he receives 3 months of
therapy
B. Prognosis is guarded, but I recommend a period of
trial therapy, at the end of which I will have a better
idea
C. Prognosis is excellent, as long as you help sustain
any improvement gained in therapy
D. Prognosis is unfavorable, so we do not recommend
therapy
8. You are working in an elementary school setting. A B. You should perform a
classroom teacher comes to you to refer an 8-year-old complete head and neck
boy whose voice sounds consistently "hoarse" and evaluation.
"breathy" and gets more severe during recess and
lunch. The child does not display symptoms of stridor,
aspiration, or pain. As the speech-language patholo-
gist, what should you initially suggest based on the
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child's symptoms?
A. The child should be referred to an otolaryngologist.
B. You should perform a complete head and neck eval-
uation.
C. The child should go for a radiologic evaluation.
D. The child should try singing to see if there is a
difference in the voice.
9. A speech-language pathologist on a cleft palate and B. Ordinal scale
craniofacial team wishes to develop a simple measure
of hypernasality to begin quantifying (however sub-
jectively) the amount of hypernasality he hears in the
speech of the children seen by the team each month.
He will pass on this information to the plastic surgeon
and other team members to assist them in making
surgical decisions for each child. The speech-language
pathologist devises the following scale:
1 -- almost no hypernasality
2 -- slight hypernasality
3 -- moderate hypernasality
4 -- great amount of hypernasality
What is this type of scale called?
A. Logarithmic scale
B. Ordinal scale
C. Nominal scale
D. Interval scale
