SLP Social and Cognitive Communication 4

Question 1

A patient with moderate TBI demonstrates confabulation during social conversation. This is BEST addressed by:

Accepted Answer

Providing external cues and reality orientation strategies

Answer

Confabulation, producing false memories without intent to deceive, is managed through external memory supports, structured questioning, and reality orientation to promote accurate communication.

Question 2

Joint attention, the coordinated focus of two people on a shared object or event, is considered foundational for which later skill?

Accepted Answer

Language and social communication development

Answer

Joint attention is a prelinguistic social-communicative skill that predicts vocabulary growth, conversational development, and social reciprocity.

Question 3

When an SLP targets 'gaze behavior' in a social skills group, the PRIMARY goal is to:

Accepted Answer

Teach use of eye contact to signal turn-taking and attention

Answer

Gaze in social communication signals engagement, conversational turns, and emotional connection — the SLP targets its pragmatic function, not the visual mechanism.

Question 4

Which test assesses both verbal and nonverbal social communication skills across multiple contexts and is normed for ages 9-adult?

Accepted Answer

TOPL-2 (Test of Pragmatic Language)

Answer

The TOPL-2 evaluates pragmatic language use across physical settings, audiences, and topics using picture-based scenarios, with norms from age 9 through adult.

Question 5

A clinician notices a client with right hemisphere syndrome laughs at inappropriate times and misinterprets facial expressions. The MOST appropriate intervention target is:

Accepted Answer

Affective prosody recognition and facial affect interpretation

Answer

Right hemisphere damage disrupts emotional prosody and facial affect recognition; targeting these improves social communication accuracy and appropriateness.

SLP - Speech-Language Pathology Practice Test

SLP - Speech-Language Pathology Practice Test

SLP Social and Cognitive Communication 4