FREE SLP Foundations and Professional Practice Questions and Answers

Question 1

What are school-wide positive behavioral support programs MOST characterized by?

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A greater emphasis on prevention than intervention

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Intensive behavioral intervention at the lowest tiers

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A stringent behavior modification system at all tiers

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Giving positive reinforcement but never punishment

Question 2

Who described the Acquisition-Learning, Monitor, Natural Order, Input, and Affective Filter hypotheses?

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Krashen

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Swain

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Cummins

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Gregory

Question 3

Which of the following speech-language pathologists is/was NOT a specialist in the field of stuttering?

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Daniel R. Boone

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George H. Shames

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Charles G. Van Riper

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Martin F. Schwartz

Question 4

To help educators and other professionals work with the families of children with disabilities, researchers have proposed aspects of family systems and dynamics to consider. For example, one is the way family members interact on a daily basis. Which is not another one of these aspects?

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The nature and severity of the child's disability

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What resources are available to a given family

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The various individual needs of family members

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Changes over time that affect family members

Question 5

A speech-language pathologist will receive compensation for utilizing a specific brand of thickener in her private practice. Which ethical dilemma is present in this scenario?

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Conflict of interest

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Negligence

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Fraud

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Misrepresentation

Question 6

Public law 99-457 encompasses:

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Training family members to support the development of a child.

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Providing reimbursement for no more than 30 days in the hospital.

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Supporting children ages 3 to 21.

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Providing eligibility for special education for children in middle school.

Question 7

Which of the following lists the steps of the evidence-based practice process in the correct order?

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Generate clinical question → Locate evidence → Evaluate evidence → Make clinical decision

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Make clinical decision → Generate clinical question → Evaluate evidence →  Locate evidence

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Generate clinical question → Locate evidence → Make clinical decision →  Evaluate evidence

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Locate evidence → Generate clinical question → Evaluate evidence → Make clinical decision

Question 8

Which of the following is true regarding core words used in augmentative and alternative (AAC) devices?

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Core words are a small number of words that make up the majority of conversation.

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AAC devices contain only core words.

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Core words are a list of developmental words.

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Core words are the most important words for users to learn.

Question 9

A speech-language pathologist is treating a patient with hearing loss. Which of the following should the clinician always do before beginning every session?

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Equipment check

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Ling-9 sound test

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Invite the patient’s siblings into the room to provide peer models

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Turn on the iPad to create a visual distraction to improve generalization

Question 10

The study of sentence structure and word order is called:

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Syntax

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Semantics

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Pragmatics

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Morphology