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A normal infant's tongue nearly fills the oral cavity, and moves primarily in an anterior-posterior direction, which limits the number and type of consonant sounds produced by infants.
Question 2
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Resonance in the three cavities of the oral facial mechanism (articulatory system) is directly essential to the production of consonant sounds.
Question 3
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Laryngeal muscles work to change the mass per unit length of the vocal folds which results in perceived variations in vocal pitch.
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Vocal fold vibration, referred to has "voicing" or "phonation" is essential to the production of all vowel and numerous consonant sounds.
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The "breath group" which is the number of breaths required to produce a single utterance, is imposed on speech by the rhythm of inspiration and expiration.
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The speech purpose of the respiratory system is to produce phonation.
Question 7
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The accurate and audible production of speech sounds is dependent on the precise, simultaneous, coordinated interaction of the respiratory, phonatory (laryngeal), and orofacial (articulatory) systems.
Question 8
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The ability to produce the sounds of "speech" accurately is primarily dependent on the development of cognitive (intellectual) abilities.
Question 9
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"Cooing" is one of the earliest speech behaviors displayed by infants, occurring normally around the age of 2 or 3 months.
Question 10
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It is common for children to experience changes to misarticulate certain fricative sounds such as /s/ and /z/ about the time they are 6 to 7 years old. This is because
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They larynx drops from the level of the 3rd vertebra to the level of the 5th vertebra about this time, changing the shape of the vocal tract and temporarily producing a negative impact on consonant production.
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Changes in cranial shape alter the structure and shape of the oral and nasal cavities.
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The root of the tongue descends into the neck to become the anterior wall of the pharynx, which temporarily restricts the ability of the tongue to reach high, front positions needed to produce fricative sounds.
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The angle at which the oral and pharyngeal cavities meet is modified by changes in the depth of the pharynx, which alter resonance and impact fricative production.
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Primary dentition is shed at about this time with the incisors, crucial to fricative production, typically being the first teeth affected.
Question 11
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The term "articulation" implies movement. Specifically, the articulators
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Modulate resonance in the cavities of the orofacial mechanism (articulatory system).
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Constrict airflows and produce identifiable consonant sounds.
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Increase subglottal air pressure.
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Produce relatively open mouth positions and the cavity resonance associated with vowel sounds.
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All of the above.
Question 12
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A talker increases the medial compression force of the vocal folds and simultaneously uses the respiratory system to increase subglottal air pressure. The result is
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Decrease in fundamental frequency
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Increased vocal loudness
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Perceived pitch fluctuation.
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Increase in fundamental frequency in a male speaker but decrease in the fundamental frequency of a female speaker.
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Reduced vocal intensity.
Question 13
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From the point of view of speech sound production, the single most important purpose of the phonatory mechanism (laryngeal system) is to:
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Act to increase thoracic rigidity to aid in strenuous physical activities.
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Function as a valve precluding entry of food and liquid into the respiratory system.
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Determine an individual's characteristic vocal pitch
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Produce phonation (voicing).
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All of the above.
Question 14
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In what way might you expect breathing in young children to differ from that of adults.
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Actually, there is little significant difference between the speech breathing patterns of young children and those of adults.
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Young children's lungs are healthier and more elastic than are those of most adults which contributes to slower breathing rates and longer breath groups.
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Because children's lungs are smaller than those of adults, they employ substantially less air pressure, which causes them to speak more quietly but with adult-like duration on
a single breath.
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Young children have a substantially faster rate of respiration and use greater air pressure than adults do when speaking, which results in relatively short breath groups.
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None of the above.
Question 15
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In order to produce speech, the respiratory system is the first charged by air by means of:
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The phonatory (laryngeal) system
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Precise, coordinated, simultaneous movements of the orofacial (articulatory), phonatory (laryngeal) and respiratory systems
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The process of active inspiration.
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Aerodynamics.
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The breath group.
Question 16
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The component(s) of the orofacial (articulatory) system include:
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The lips, tongue, teeth, hard and soft palates, and the oral, nasal and pharyngeal cavities.
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The larynx, including the vocal folds and intrinsic laryngeal muscles.
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The diaphragm and intercostal muscles.
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All the above acting in precise, simultaneous,coordinated movements.
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None of the above.
Question 17
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Speech and language are related in that:
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Speech is required to express linguistic concepts and ideas.
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Speech and language are interchangeable terms that have essentially synonymous meanings
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Speech sounds are one method of encoding and transmitting language.
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All of the above.
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Answers a and c only.
Question 18
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Which of the following is an example of "cooing"?
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The child utters prolonged vowel sounds such as /a/ or /o/.
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You observe an infant who says "t-t-t-t-t-t."
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An 11-month old refers consistently to the family dog as /nabi/, which nobody in the family can figure out because the dog's name is "Frank."
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A new mother reports her 6-month-old called her "mommy" yesterday. She says, "I heard him in his crib calling me, saying 'ma-ma-ma-ma-ma' over and over. I'm SO proud. I'm sure he's gifted."
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A 12-month-old says, "bee-da-goo-ba-do" with an upward ending
Question 19
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The incisors are the first of the primary teeth to be shed commonly resulting in misarticulating and changes in fricative sounds such as /s/ and /z/.
Question 20
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The articulators include the oral, nasal, and pharyngeal cavities, which are the primary components responsible for consonant sound production and differentiation.
Question 21
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The vocal folds attach to the cricoid cartilage in the back and thyroid cartilage in the front.
Question 22
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As people age the amount of air they can hold in their lungs typically diminishes, which accounts for the weak vocal quality and shorter breath groups that characterize the speech of elderly people.
Question 23
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The term "speech" refers to the sounds used to convey spoken languages, not to the ideas conveyed by languages themselves.
Question 24
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The speech function to the orofacial mechanism (articulatory system) is to:
Question 25
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Adult male average vocal fundamental frequency is 110 Hz while that of an adult females is 225 Hz. This is the result of:
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The different in the relative medial compression force
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Male to female glottal dimension ratios of approximately 2:1
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Significantly shorter average vocal fold length in women compared to that in men.
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Gender differences in application of sub glottal air pressure.
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All of the above.
Question 26
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Phonation (voicing) is directly produced by:
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Sympathetic pulsation of the thyroid and cricoid cartilages.
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Arytenoidal centrifugal articulation tendencies.
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Glottal variation.
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Vibration of the vocal folds.
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All of the above.
Question 27
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The respiratory system:
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Produces the air flow and pressure that powers speech.
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Is primarily composed of the lungs, trachea, bronchi, diaphragm, and intercostal muscles.
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Is one of the three essential sub mechanisms (systems) needed to produce accurate, audible speech sounds.
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All of the above
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Answers b and C only.
Question 28
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The orofacial (articulatory) system is subdivided into the resonators and articulators which act to:
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Produce phonation
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Supply the air flow and pressure that powers audible speech
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Regulate the action of the diaphragm and intercostal muscles in speech breathing,
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Modify the output of the other speech production systems to produce identifiable vowels and consonants.
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Answers a and b only.
Question 29
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Speech development is more complicated than simply learning to produce sounds in isolation. This is because:
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There are no words that consist of a single sound (phoneme) in isolation.
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The ease or difficulty with which a given sound is produced in a given word is influenced by the sounds that occur around it in a speech stream.
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Tiny alterations in speech sounds signal significant changes in meaning and such alterations may occur at any place within a word.
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All of the above.
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Answers b and c only.
Question 30
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"Babbling" differs from "reduplication babbling" in infants in that:
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Babbling includes the use of adult-like intonation patterns while reduplication babbling is simply the repetition of strings of identical consonant sounds.
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Reduplication babbling normally occurs before true babbling.
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There is no difference; the terms are synonymous.
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Babbling involves repetition of single consonant sounds (/k-k-k-k/) while reduplication babbling involves producing syllable strings (/ku-ku-ku-ku/).
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None of the above.
Question 31
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The most important speech function of the laryngeal system is the capacity of the vocal folds to close tightly, thus increasing thoracic rigidity,
Question 32
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The terms "speech" and "language" are essentially synonymous an can be used interchangeably.
Question 33
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When a six-month old infant produces long strings of repeated consonant-vowel syllables such as "tatatatata" we say he or she is displaying age appropriate "reduplication babbling".
Question 34
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Normally developing often have trouble learning to produce both the vowel and consonant sounds to their native language.
Question 35
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Distinctive feature therapy would be a reasonable approach for a child who produces numerous speech production errors such as s/z t/d k/g p/b/ f/v.
Question 36
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The "phonological process" model addresses the impact of phonemic environment on misarticulations.
Question 37
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The distinctive feature approach views children's misarticulations as products of infantile pronunciation rules that are simplifications of adult speech patterns.
Question 38
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The traditional phonetic approach can be inefficient and excessively time consuming when applied to situations where children display numerous misarticulating that vary depending on phonemic environments.
Question 39
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The syllable "rime" (or rhyme) consists of the syllable "nucleus" which is always a vowel, and the syllable "coda" which consists of one or more consonants that follow the nucleus.
Question 40
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Manners of production are characterized by such terms as nasals, fricatives, and liquids.
Question 41
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The vowel quadrilateral classifies vowels in terms of the parameters high, low, front, back, voiced and voiceless.
Question 42
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All vowels are produced with relatively open, unconstricted mouth positions.
Question 43
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In English, phonemes are sub classified into vowels and consonants.
Question 44
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Traditionally, goals in therapy for phonological disorders have been prioritized in terms of the order of normal acquisition, the impact on intelligibility and stimulability. .
Question 45
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The articulation approach to therapy focuses on motor production and imitation, shaping, successive approximation and reinforcement are commonly employed techniques.
Question 46
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An example of successive approximation in treatment for a phonological disorder would be to use /l/ which the child can produce, as a starting point and gradually modifying production toward the target sound /r/.
Question 47
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Standardized tests typically provide exhaustive detail about sound production in connected speech, so sampling spontaneous conversational speech is unnecessary.
Question 48
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The terms "diagnosis" and "identification" are related but not synonymous reference to assessing children for possible phonological disorders.
Question 49
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Metaphonological abilities begin to develop in early adolescence and play a key role in older children's development of metalinguistic abilities.
Question 50
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The relationship between dentition and speech production often has been overestimated and minor dental abnormalities rarely cause significant deviations in speech production,
Question 51
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The terms "articulation disorder" and "phonetic disorder" are roughly equivalent and it would be reasonable to use them synonymously.
Question 52
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The term "phonology" refers primarily to the motor movements involved in the production of speech.
Question 53
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The larynx and root of the tongue descent into the neck, deepening the pharynx and altering the angle at which the oral and pharyngeal cavities meet. This process:
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Is typically complete around age 4 years.
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Significantly increases the range of sounds children can produce
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Is directly linked to and is dependent on the development of dentition,
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All of the above.
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Answers a and b.
Question 54
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The speech function of the orofacial mechanism (articulatory system) is to:
Question 55
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The number of syllables produced on a single expiration is termed:
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The phonatory cyclic total.
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The aerodynamic/myoelastic quotient
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Diaphragmatic speech breathing,
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The intercostal expiratory figure
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A breath group.
Question 56
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In general, the actual process of speaking is DIRECTLY powered by:
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Gradual relaxation of the diaphragm and intercostal muscles which acts to force air from the lungs
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Active inspiration
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Contraction of the respiratory muscles
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The trachea
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Active tensing of the muscles of the rib cage (intercostal muscles) which lift and rotate the ribs upward and outward.
Question 57
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It is not unusual for normally developing children to have some difficulty learning to produce the sounds of their native language primarily because:
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Many acquire English as a second language.
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Public schools are inadequately funded and the teaching profession as a whole is devalued and disrespected
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Poor speech models portrayed on television give many children in inadequate phonemic base even in their native language.
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English speech sounds are more difficult to learn than are the phonemic elements of most other languages.
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Speech production is complicated by elements of manner, place, voicing, continuance, and surrounding phonemic environment which impact every sound in a speech stream.
Question 58
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***A phonological process treatment approach would most likely be preferred for:
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a. An older child with only two, consistent, stimulable misarticulations of late developing sounds
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b. A 4- year old child whose speech is largely unintelligible
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c. A cild who consistently produces voiced sounds in the environments calling for their voiceless cognate.
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d. A child who displays numerous errors along the lines of saying "tefone" for "telephone" and "efunt" for "elephant"
Question 59
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The phonological process approach differs from both traditional phonetics and distinctive feature analysis in that:
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a.It was created by Chomsky and Halle
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b.It proposes a means for correcting numerous misarticulations simultaneously
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c.It has become the single, preferred "treatment of choice" for all types of speech production errors
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d.It attempts to account for the effect of phonemic environment.
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Answers a and b only
Question 60
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A distinctive feature treatment approach is likely to be preferred to a traditional phonetic approach for use with a child who displays numerous misarticulations and significantly impacted intelligibility. This is because:
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The traditional phonetic approach is outmoded and no longer employed.
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Parents generally prefer distinctive feature therapy because of widespread positive reviews in the national media.
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Distinctive feature therapy simultaneously corrects features common to several misarticulated sounds producing relatively rapid improvements in intelligibility.
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The American Speech, Language and Hearing Association has published a position paper recommending distinctive feature therapy in such cases.
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All of the above.
Question 61
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***Traditional phonetics views speech (and treats speech disorders) as:
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a.Incurable
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b. A dynamic process in which sounds interact and change based on the phonemic environment present at a given moment.
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c. Consisting of strings of discrete sounds
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d. An issue of treating sounds in their natural syllabic environments
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Both answers c and d.
Question 62
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Children mostly learn, or have difficulty with, phoneme production in:
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Isolation
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Discrete bits
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Word initial position
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Syllable clumps
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The syllable nucleus
Question 63
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The place of production for the consonant /t/ in the word "ten" is:
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Word initial position
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Plosive (stop plosive)
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Lingua-alveolar
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High, front
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Lingua-dental
Question 64
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The production of vowels can be described largely in terms of:
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a. six different manners of production
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b. Tongue change that modify the shape of cavities
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c. resonance characteristics
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d. continuance or non continuance
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both answers b and c
Question 65
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You observe a child producing a single phoneme in isolation. The phoneme is both voiced and continuant. In producing this phoneme, the chid maintains an open mouth position. It is almost certain that the sound is:
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A fricative
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A plosive (stop-plosive)
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A consonant blend
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A nasal
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A vowel
Question 66
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The process of coarticulation
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a. Is one reason for the existence of allophones
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b. Results in phoneme cognates
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c. Involves the simultaneous occurrence of production characteristics of two or more phonemes in a speech stream.
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All of the above.
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Answers a and c only
Question 67
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*** There are several "schemes" for organizing treatment for multiple phonological errors. These include:
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a. The traditional phonetic approach
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b. The sequential approach
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c. The perceptual training method
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d. The cyclic approach
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Both answers b and d
Question 68
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The "cycles approach" to phonological treatment:
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a. Focuses on elimination of phonological processes
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b. Employs a rigorous cycle of imitation, shaping, successive approximation, and reinforcement for desired responses.
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c. Simultaneously targets a number of phonological processes
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d. Teaches target sounds in a cyclic hierarchy of isolation, then in syllables, words phrases, sentences, controlled conversation and spontaneous speech
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Both answers a and c
Question 69
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An example of "facilitating context" in treatment for a phonological disorder is:
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Using a mirror to facilitate correct placement of the articulators
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Facilitating a child's correct production by giving specific direction for correct articulator placement
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Training the child to discriminate between the target sound and the error in words produce by the clinical as a means of facilitating more accurate perception.
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Using bilabial consonant sounds in CV syllables to facilitate a more forward place of production for a child who substitutues a/ae
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all of the above
Question 70
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For the purpose of assessing phonological disorders, standardized tests:
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a. May misrepresent a child's skills by comparing them to those of a generic group unlike that of a child's specific language, cultural or dialect background
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b. Are helpful for children who's spontaneous speech is unintelligible
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c. Provide normative data to which a child's performance can be compared.
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All of the above
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Answers c and c only
Question 71
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The meaning of the term "diagnosis" differs from that of "identification" in that
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"Identification" only determines whether a child who fails a screening has a disorder; "diagnosis" specifies the specific nature of the disorder
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Identification is an initial step used to determine whether diagnostic testing is needed.
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"Diagnosis" is the process of employing assessment measures demonstrate whether a child has a disorder; "identification" identifies they type of disorder revealed by the diagnosis
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There is no difference, the terms are used interchangeably.
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Diagnosis is a professional term for which the label "identification" is used in educational settings.
Question 72
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Providing on tasks such as providing rhymes for stimulus words, identifying beginning and ending sounds or words, breaking down words into syllables and pronouncing words with beginning sounds missing:
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a. Are important methods used to identify developmental apraxia of speech.
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b. Strongly predict a young child's likelihood of becoming a proficient reader and writer.
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c. are used to assess a child' phonemic (phonological) awareness
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all of the above
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answers b and c only
Question 73
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Phonological deficits in children:
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a. Vary with the type of hearing loss
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b. Are significantly influenced by the severity of hearing loss.
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c. May be affected by the age at which hearing loss occurs and when intervention begins
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all of the above
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answers b and c only
Question 74
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The meaning of the term "phonetic disorder" differs from that of a "phonological disorder" in that:
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a. It is a broader, more general term that includes the concept of a phonological disorder
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b. It refers to disorders caused by and limited to deficiencies in the motor production or neuromotor control systems
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c. There is, in fact, no difference in meaning and the terms may be used synonymously.
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d. It refers to consonants, vowels, syllables, words, phrases, rhythm and prosody of speech while "phonology" refers to the motor processes that produce speech sounds.
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both a and d
Question 75
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The meaning of the term "phonology" includes