SLP Assessment Techniques & Diagnostic Procedures 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which standardized assessment is specifically designed to evaluate phonological awareness skills in children ages 5–9?
- GFTA-3
- CTOPP-2 (Correct answer)
- PPVT-5
- EVT-3
Correct answer: CTOPP-2
The CTOPP-2 (Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing) measures phonological awareness, phonological memory, and rapid naming.
Question 2: During a dynamic assessment, an SLP provides mediated learning experiences and then re-tests to determine:
- The child's static language age
- The child's learning potential and modifiability (Correct answer)
- Whether an interpreter is needed
- The severity of the disorder on a standardized scale
Correct answer: The child's learning potential and modifiability
Dynamic assessment evaluates a child's responsiveness to instruction, revealing learning potential beyond a static test score.
Question 3: On the Oral and Written Language Scales (OWLS-II), a significantly lower Listening Comprehension score compared to Oral Expression suggests:
- Primarily an expressive language disorder
- Primarily a receptive language disorder (Correct answer)
- A fluency disorder
- A pragmatic language disorder only
Correct answer: Primarily a receptive language disorder
A low Listening Comprehension score relative to Oral Expression points to receptive language as the primary area of deficit.
Question 4: When computing percent consonants correct (PCC) in a speech sample, which error type is counted as incorrect?
- Distortions only
- Substitutions and omissions only
- Substitutions, omissions, and distortions (Correct answer)
- Omissions only
Correct answer: Substitutions, omissions, and distortions
PCC counts substitutions, omissions, and distortions all as errors; only correctly produced consonants are counted as correct.
Question 5: A referential communication task used during language assessment primarily evaluates:
- Phoneme discrimination
- The ability to convey information clearly to a listener who cannot see the stimulus (Correct answer)
- Narrative macrostructure
- Grammatical morpheme use
Correct answer: The ability to convey information clearly to a listener who cannot see the stimulus
Referential communication tasks assess how well a speaker can describe objects or events so a naive listener can identify them.
Question 6: Which acoustic measure is most directly associated with vocal hyperfunction?
- Increased subglottal air pressure only
- Elevated fundamental frequency (F0)
- Increased harmonic-to-noise ratio (HNR)
- Reduced cepstral peak prominence (CPP) (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Reduced cepstral peak prominence (CPP)
Reduced CPP reflects greater aperiodicity and noise in the voice signal, characteristic of hyperfunctional voice disorders.
Question 7: The Test of Narrative Language (TNL) assesses a child's ability to:
- Repeat sentences of increasing length
- Comprehend and produce oral narratives (Correct answer)
- Identify rhyming words
- Name pictures rapidly
Correct answer: Comprehend and produce oral narratives
The TNL evaluates narrative comprehension and production across multiple story formats, making it a functional language measure.
SLP Assessment Techniques & Diagnostic Procedures 2
Which standardized assessment is specifically designed to evaluate phonological awareness skills in children ages 5–9?