2026 VERIFIED QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ _____ is the product of vibrating vocal folds that produce voiced
sounds.
Answer: Phonation
⩥ What is the name of the area of the brain that allows the motor
programming of speech and to be sent to the mouth?
Answer: Primary motor cortex
⩥ The first form of language to emerge in a normally developing baby is
what?
Answer: Cooing/gooing
⩥ The component of the hearing aid that takes in sound and converts it
to an electrical signal:
Answer: Microphone
⩥ At what age does a child produce true words?
Answer: 12 months
,⩥ What is a language disorder?
Answer: The inability to effectively communicate
⩥ At what stage does variegated babbling occur?
Answer: 5
⩥ Early communicative skills are also referred to as:
Answer: Pre-linguistic skills
⩥ Identify the Ling sounds:
Answer: Oo, ee, ah, s, sh, m
⩥ Children who are DHH use reading programs and books that are
different than their hearing peers. T/F?
Answer: False
⩥ The totality of motor processes involved in the planning and execution
of sequences of overlapping gestures which result in speech refers to:
Answer: Articulation
⩥ Looking up words in a dictionary and writing down the definition is a
traditional and effective way to teach vocabulary. T/F?
Answer: False
,⩥ The capitalized word(s) represents a _____ in the following sentence:
"The red beads are ON THE TABLE."
Answer: Prepositional phrase
⩥ Which acoustic cue is most easily perceived?
Answer: A change in duration
⩥ A child begins to embed sentence elements and make transformations:
Answer: 35-40 months
⩥ What unit of measurement is used for intensity?
Answer: A decibel
⩥ Phonation occurs within the:
Answer: Larynx
⩥ A bilingual child must be tested in both languages. T/F?
Answer: True
⩥ Aphasia would likely result from:
Answer: A cerebrovascular accident affecting the middle cerebral artery.
, ⩥ A guided reading lesson is most effective when conducted with text
that is at students' _____ reading level.
Answer: Instructional
⩥ Each time the distance from the source is doubled, the sound
attenuates by a factor of:
Answer: 6 dB
⩥ The formalist approach to intervention is based on pragmatics as the
overall aspect of language. T/F?
Answer: False
⩥ The PLS -4 was administered to John with the following scores:
Auditory Comprehensions - 52
Expressive Communication - 37
Total Language 43
The PLS-4 has a reliability of .85 and the SEM for his age is 5 points.
The SD is 10 and the mean is 50.
Where is his expressive communication score compared to the mean and
SD?