Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) Praxis Test Review (Latest Update 2025 / 2026) Questions & Answers | Grade A | 100% Correct
Question:
A person receives information visually by watching hand movements, as well as natural mouth movement.
- Total Communication - Total Communication (TC) is a philosophy of
educating children with hearing loss that incorporates all means of communication; formal signs, natural gestures, fingerspelling, body language, listening, lipreading and speech.
B. ASL
- Speechreading (Maybe?)
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From ASHA- Speechreading (lipreading) refers to visual speech perception in the absence of auditory information.
Answer:
Speechreading
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Question:
Print awareness vs phonemic awareness
Answer:
- Phonological awareness/ phonemic awareness refers to a child's specific
ability to detect and manipulate sounds and syllables in words. Phonological awareness encompasses the ability to be aware of sounds and syllables apart from whole words.
- Print knowledge/ print awareness refers to children's emergent knowledge
about functions and forms of written language. For example, a child needs to be able to distinguish uppercase from lowercase letters
Question:
High/low prevalence of disorders
Answer:
-speech and language impairment: high
-hearing impairment: high
-severe cog: low
-mild cog: high
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Question:
Brown's Stage 1
Answer:
12-26 months. MLU 1.0-2.0. About 50 words in vocabulary. Basic phrases (with communicative intent).
Question:
Muscles involved in velopharyngeal closure?
Answer:
Levator Veli Palatini, Tensor Palatine, Superior pharyngeal Constrictor, Palatoglossus, Musculus uvulae.
Question:
What dysphagia may look like in a patient with a laryngectomy (select two).
- Reduced aspiration
- Bolus...
C. UED...
- Reduced lingual...
Answer:
Bolus.... and UES... 3 / 4
Question:
Infant feeding: baby isn't gaining weight and caloric intake is poor. Feels
fatigued after swallowing. What's the cause?
Answer:
Failure to thrive?
Question:
Physical characteristics of a submucous cleft
Answer:
- notch in a hard palate
- abnormal orientation of soft palate muscles causing the middle velum to be
- bifid uvula (split in two)
thin and bluish in color
Question:
Facial nerve (CN VII)
Answer:
innervates the anterior ⅔ of the tongue
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