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A concerned mother brings her 3-week-
old child to you because he is having laryngeal web. difficulties breathing. You refer the mother and her child to a physician. Upon laryngeal examination, the physician notices that a membrane has grown across the anterior portion of the glottis. The physician informs the mother that this problem may be either congenital or acquired and that surgery is required to remove the membrane. According to the physician, the diagnosis would be hyperkeratosis. B. leukoplakia. C. laryngeal web. D. papilloma.
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, coupled with good eye contact and generally compliant behavior C. Lack of gestures, good eye contact, and lack of attachment to new people D. Low birth weight and length, behavior problems, and possible swallowing difficulties In standardizing a test of language skills in
children, the investigator asked two experts content validity. to judge each item on the test to make sure that all items were relevant to children's language skills. This is a method of
establishing the A. concurrent validity. B. content validity. C. construct validity. D. predictive validity. You give a new test of cognition to patients on your hospital caseload who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. You find a vast spread in the scores of the patients, depending upon how advanced their Alzheimer's disease is. You want to determine the range of scores of your patients. What can you calculate to do this?
The difference between the highest and the lowest scores of the patients to whom the test has been administered A. The difference between the highest and the lowest scores of the patients to whom the test has been administered B. The lowest and highest 25% of the scores
You are seeing a 12-year-old girl at the
local junior high school. Her scores on the semantic skills. Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Fourth Edition and the Expressive Vocabulary Test-Second Edition were both 2 years below age level. She has many friends and is well liked by her peers. Academically, she struggles with the vocabulary in her textbooks. Therapy should focus primarily on remediation of A. pragmatic skills. B. discourse. C. morphologic skills. D. semantic skills. You are working in a special needs school
with children who are at risk for language Cri du chat disorders. A teacher referred to you a young boy whose symptoms include low birth weight, microcephaly, low-set ears, micrognathia, wide eyes, and
excessive drooling. His behaviors include hyperactivity, tantrums, aggression, repetitive movements, feeding problems, catlike meowing, as well as severe cognitive, speech, and motor delays. The case history indicates that this syndrome is partially due to the deletion of the short arm of chromosome 5. Which syndrome does this child display? A. Bantis B. Cruveilhier-Baumgarten C. Cri du chat D. Mobius A child is referred to you by his preschool
teacher. This child, Jaden, is 4 years 5 reduplication. months old and has transferred from out of state. In his previous state, Jaden was reportedly assessed by a speech-language pathologist who recommended that he
cause of aphasia in women only. D. bleeding vessel.
You are conducting therapy with a kindergartener with a speech sound disorder and language impairment. He has deficient phonological awareness skills, and you are targeting these skills in therapy along with other treatment targets. Which of the following are you working on as part of phonological awareness treatment?
rhyming, phoneme isolation, sound blending A. auditory discrimination skills B. metaphon skills C. awareness of print and print conventions D. rhyming, phoneme isolation, sound blending A patient was referred for therapy to an
outpatient rehabilitation facility because of phonetic derivation. a diagnosis of apraxia of speech post CVA. The clinician decided to use a shaping technique that focused on orofacial and articulatory postures with specific instructions about how to change current speech and non-speech movements to
You are evaluating the language skills of Pascal, who has come to the United States with his family from Mexico. As you are gathering a language sample, you hear many utterances that reflect the transfer of Spanish to English. Which of the following would be a typical utterance for a child from a Spanish-speaking home who is learning English in elementary school?
"This balloon is more big." A. "This balloon is more big." B. "I don't not have no more balloons." C. "The big house be red." D. "The girl's book done be gone." The American Speech- Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) regulates professional practice in speech- language pathology and audiology by specifying the scope of practice. According to the existing scope- of-practice documents, which of the following statements is
ASHA does not allow infant feeding by speech-language pathologists (SLPs)
false? A. ASHA does not allow infant feeding by speech- language pathologists (SLPs). B. Memory and such other cognitive aspects of communication disorders are within the SLP's scope of practice. C. Counseling is not just the province of psychologists; SLPs, too, can counsel their clients. D. Sensory awareness training related to swallowing disorders is within the SLP's scope of practice.
mouth. B. swallow twice prior to taking a spoonful of food in the mouth. C. be given synthetic saliva just prior to eating. D. use a chin tuck procedure before swallowing.
A high school teacher has referred Ashley to you for assessment. Ashley is 17 years old, and she possibly has a language impairment. When you assess Ashley, which specific problems will you look for as evidence of a language impairment?
Difficulty using cohesion devices (e.g., therefore, for example) A. Sentences that are average in length but contain omissions of bound morphemes B. Difficulty using cohesion devices (e.g., therefore, for example) C. Normal ability to maintain a conversation, but some use of non sequiturs D. Normal ability to use figurative language, but difficulty with concrete language Beth has central nervous system damage
with no weakness or paralysis of her facial apraxia. muscles; however, her central nervous system damage makes it difficult for her to program the precise movements necessary for smoothly articulated
You have completed the case history and assessment of a 72-year-old man and have found, among other things, uninhibited and inappropriate social behavior, excessive eating, depression, impaired judgment, and dominant language problems, with better- preserved memory and orientation. The neurologist's report suggests dense intracellular formation in the neuronal cytoplasm. Your most likely diagnosis would be which of the following?
Frontotemporal dementia associated with Pick's disease A. Dementia of the Alzheimer's type B. Frontotemporal dementia associated with Pick's disease C. Dementia associated with Parkinson's disease D. Dementia due to Creutzfeldt- Jakob disease You are treating an 88-year- old woman with dementia. You introduce a treatment program to improve her
reminiscence therapy (RT).
quality of life. You begin your therapy by discussing past experiences and events in her life. You also use photographs of the patient's family members as well as music that she likes. You tailor the therapy specifically for the client by using objects and items that her son has provided to you. This treatment method is an example of A. reality orientation (RO). B. reminiscence therapy (RT). C. simulated presence therapy (SPT). D. cognitive stimulation therapy (CST).