PRAXIS QUESTIONS OF THE DAY LATEST 2023-2024
REAL EXAM 200+ QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |AGRADE
A child who says things like kek/tek shows that she is using the pattern of:
A. Velar assimilation
B. Alveolar assimilation
C. Coalescence
D. Segmentation – ANSWER- A. Velar assimilation
The malleus, incus, and stapes form the:
A. tympanic membrane
B. stapedius muscle
C. tensor tympani
D. ossicular chain – ANSWER- D. ossicular chain
Which of the following is a middle ear disorder:
A. otitis media
B. presbycusis
C. Meniere’s disease
D. tinnitus – ANSWER- 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/ – ANSWER- A. /th/
When a child says things like /ko/ instead of /so/, she is demonstrating the pattern
of:
A. Coalescence
B. Fronting
C. Backing
D. Epenthesis – ANSWER- C. Backing
When carcinoma affects the cricoid and trachea, the damage is:
A. Supraglottic
B. Subglottic
C. Aryepiglottic
D. Epiglottic – ANSWER- 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 – ANSWER- 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 – ANSWER- B. A dialect
Damage to the cerebellum may cause a movement disorder called:
A. athetosis
B. flaccidity
C. ataxia
D. all of the above – ANSWER- 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 – ANSWER- 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 – ANSWER- 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 – ANSWER- 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: – ANSWERadjacency 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?” – ANSWER- /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 – ANSWER- 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 – ANSWER- B. Oral apraxia
Examples of secondary stuttering include:
A. Whispering
B. Part-word repetitions
C. Quivering of the nostrils
D. All of the above – ANSWER- 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 – ANSWER- 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 English
B. Has normal skills in English but delays in Hmong
C. Has delays in both Hmong and English, evidencing problems using both
languages
D. He won’t qualify for therapy; he needs to be evaluated by an English as a second
language teacher – ANSWER- C. Has delays in both Hmong and English,
evidencing problems using both languages
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. Disorientiation – ANSWER- A. cognition problems than language problems
Disorders of the ___ result in rigidity, jerky and purposeless
movements (chorea), and slow writhing, snakelike movements (athetosis):