SLPA NC BOARD EXAM MOCK 2023-2024 REAL EXAM 150 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS
What are the 5 Objectives of Intervention? - (answer) 1. Client should ahow improvement not just in a
clincial setting; Progress should be generalized to real-world environments.
2. Should be automatic
3. Should be self-monitered
4. Shoul make optimum progress in minimum amount of time
5. Interventionshould be sensitive to personal and cultural characteristics.
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
,SLPA NC BOARD EXAM MOCK 2023-2024 REAL EXAM 150 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS
(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
, SLPA NC BOARD EXAM MOCK 2023-2024 REAL EXAM 150 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS
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
What are the 4 learning modalities? - (answer) 1. Kinesthetic-learning by movement
2. Tactile-learning by touch
ANSWERS
What are the 5 Objectives of Intervention? - (answer) 1. Client should ahow improvement not just in a
clincial setting; Progress should be generalized to real-world environments.
2. Should be automatic
3. Should be self-monitered
4. Shoul make optimum progress in minimum amount of time
5. Interventionshould be sensitive to personal and cultural characteristics.
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
,SLPA NC BOARD EXAM MOCK 2023-2024 REAL EXAM 150 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS
(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
, SLPA NC BOARD EXAM MOCK 2023-2024 REAL EXAM 150 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS
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
What are the 4 learning modalities? - (answer) 1. Kinesthetic-learning by movement
2. Tactile-learning by touch
