PRAXIS QUESTIONS OF THE DAY LATEST 2023-2024
REAL EXAM 200+ QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
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A child who says
... [Show More] things like kek/tek shows that she is using the pattern of:
A. Velar assimilation
B. Alveolar assimilation
C. Coalescence
D. Segmentation - Answers-A. Velar assimilation
The malleus, incus, and stapes form the:
A. tympanic membrane
B. stapedius muscle
C. tensor tympani
D. ossicular chain - Answers-D. ossicular chain
Which of the following is a middle ear disorder:
A. otitis media
B. presbycusis
C. Meniere's disease
D. tinnitus - Answers-A. otitis media
Justin is a highly unintelligible 4-year-old boy. He has difficulties producing /w/, /t/, /d/,
and /th/. If you were to treat him using a least phonological knowledge approach, your
first target sound in therapy would be:
A. /th/
B. /w/
C. /t/
D. /d/ - -
When a child says things like /ko/ instead of /so/, she is demonstrating the pattern of:
A. Coalescence
B. Fronting
C. Backing
D. Epenthesis - Answers-C. Backing
When carcinoma affects the cricoid and trachea, the damage is:
A. Supraglottic
B. Subglottic
C. Aryepiglottic
D. Epiglottic - Answers-B. Subglottic
In the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, the patient has more:
A. Cognition problems than language problems
B. Language problems than cognition problems
C. Muteness
D. Disorientation - Answers-A. Cognition problems than language problems
A regionally or socially distinct variety of a language identified by distinct set of words
and structures is called:
A. Code switching
B. A dialect
C. Bilingualism
D. Socioeconomic bilingualism - Answers-B. A dialect
Damage to the cerebellum may cause a movement disorder called:
A. athetosis
B. flaccidity
C. ataxia
D. all of the above - Answers-C. ataxia
You are working in a hospital, and a 72-year-old patient, Grace, is referred to you. She
has difficulty paying attention to a conversation, staying on topic, remembering
information, responding accurately, and following directions. She most likely has:
A. Apraxia of speech
B. Wernicke's aphasia
C. Transcortical motor aphasia
D. Cognitive communication disorder - Answers-D. Cognitive communication disorder
A girl, Suzanne, is brought to you displaying the symptoms of hypotonia, imprecise
articulation, and intellectual disability. Her mother shares that she eats excessively and
she is worried because Suzanne is overweight and being teased by her peers. This child
has:
A. Pierre-Robin Syndrome
B. Prader-Willi Syndrome
C. Treacher-Collins Syndrome
D. Trisomy 13 - Answers-B. Prader-Willi Syndrome
When the stapes is permanently removed and replaced with a prosthesis, the procedure
is called a:
A. Mastoidectomy
B. Myringotomy
C. Tympanometry
D. Stapedectomy - Answers-D. Stapedectomy
For some persons who stutter, disfluencies tend to occur in clusters more often than
would be expected by chance. This phenomenon is called the: - Answers-adjacency
effect
The parent of a child who is receiving therapy for a speech sound disorder does some
research on the internet and says to you "What are glides?" - Answers-/w/ and /j/
You are working with a client who has Parkinson's and tends to speak with a monotone.
You are trying to help her intonation become more varied. You have her deliberately
speak with a monotone over and over again to help increase her awareness of how she
sounds; you record her on your phone and play back the recording for her to listen to.
You are employing the technique of:
A. Punishment
B. Negative reinforcement
C. Positive reinforcement
D. Negative practice - Answers-D. Negative practice
Patients who exhibit __________ have difficulty making nonspeech sounds, and cannot
move the muscles of the throat, soft palate, and tongue for nonspeech purposes:
A. Apraxia of speech
B. Oral apraxia
C. Limb apraxia
D. Developmental apraxia of speech - Answers-B. Oral apraxia
Examples of secondary stuttering include:
A. Whispering
B. Part-word repetitions
C. Quivering of the nostrils
D. All of the above - Answers-C. Quivering of the nostrils
In therapy, you decide to use minimal pairs as part of your treatment plan to increase a
child's intelligibility. Which one of the following is NOT a minimal pair?
A. Me-meat
B. Duck-luck
C. Mud-moon
D. Pen-ten - Answers-C. Mud-moon
Soua and his family have immigrated to the U.S. from Laos; he is 7 years old and
speaks Hmong. Soua's teacher is concerned because he struggles in math, science,
and language arts. He also has some difficulty making friends and interacting
appropriately on the playground during recess. You decide to, with the help of a Hmong
interpreter, evaluate Soua's language skills to see if he has a specific language
impairment and qualifies for language therapy. Soua will qualify for language therapy if
he:
A. Has normal skills in Hmong and delays in Englis [Show Less]