Board of Speech & Language Pathology

[Cancellations, pull-outs, and preparatory sets are taught in:]

[The supervisor mentioned to her clinicians that there are three main methods that are used to represent language in AAC speech output assistive technology systems. She provided the students with several choices and asked them to pick one method from the list that should be considered to represent language in AAC system programming.]

[T/F: The brain and spinal cord are referred to as the Central nervous system]

[T/F Voice inflections used in a language such as stress, intensity, changes in pitch, duration of a sound, and rhythm that helps listeners understand the true intent of a message are called superasegmentals]

[Doug is a 45 year old man who has smoked and drunk alcohol since he was a teenager. He now has laryngeal cancer, and before surgery, the surgeon asks you to talk with Doug about esophageal speech. You explain there are two methods. One, the patient is taught to keep the esophagus open and relaxed while inhaling rapidly. In the other, the patient impounds the air in the oral cavity, pushes it back into the esophagus, and vibrates the cricopharyngeus muscle. The second method is called:]

[A correlation coefficient]

[T/F: maximum volume of air that can be inspired is inspiratory capacity]

[T/F: voicing refers to whether or not there is vocal fold vibration during sound production for consonants]

[T/F: motherese refers to modifications made in an adult's speech when it is directly towards young children]

[A patient was receiving irradiation to the oral and pharyngeal areas and was experiencing xerostomia, as well as weight loss and an increase in dental caries. During the evaluation, the clinician recommended that the patient]

[True/False: Imitation is an integral part of most treatment programs in AOS, especially during early stages.]

[the therapy technique of phonetic placement is used to teach or establish]

[T/F: when contracted, superior longitudinal muscles of the tongue shortens the tongue or elevates the tongue tip and/or sides of the tongue]

[T/F: long term semantic memory referred to as lexicon]

[Select the statement that is correct.]

[T/F: the highly gelatinous and pliable layer that is comprised of the superficial lamina propria and the epithelium is called the cover]

[T/F: The brainstem carry information for vision and smell]

[T/F: The thin fibrous sheet that tightly adheres to the surface of the brain and spinal cord pia mater]

[True/False: the basal ganglia exerts direct motor control]

[Cerebellar output leaves the cerebellum via the ______________ peduncle.]