Welcome to Certification Test for Respiratory Welcome to your SLP Name: Email: [T/F: external carotid artery supply the heard and dura, but not the brain with blood] True False None . [T/F: at approximately 24 months age children begin acquiring many more verbs] True False None . [T/F: within the basal ganglia, the neurotransmitter dopamine is excitatory] True False None . [Public Law 94-142, the Education for all Handicapped Children Act of 1975, was later reauthorized and retitled as] the Americans with Disabilities Act. the Education of Disabled Individuals Act. the Handicapped Individuals Education Act. the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act. None . [The central nervous system's primary mechanism of attention, altertness, and consciousness, which is also related to sleep-wake cycles, is the:] diencephalon mesencephalon reticular activating system corticobulbar tract circle of willis None . [A clinician assesses an adolescent whose discourse skills are limited. The clinician's treatment goals would most likely involve which of the following?] Increased comprehension and use of idioms and metaphors Increased mean length of utterance and sentence complexity Increased accuracy in the use of morphological structures Increased conversational skills over a wide range of topics while interacting with peers None . [A clinician is evaluating a 12-year old boy, Justin, who was in a car accident and sustained a traumatic brain injury. He is now having difficulty communicating and has complex communication needs. The clinician is attempting to determine which type of alternative/augmentative communication (AAC) technology to use with him. In evaluating Justin's willingness to use this technology, she must consider response efficiency, which involves:] quality, rate, and immediacy of reinforcement as well as response effort the speed at which Justin can press keys on the AAC device whether or not a device's symbols are transparent whether or not a device's symbols are opaque None . [The telechephalon is also known as the cerebral cortex] True False None . [T/F: Estimated total number of individuals diagnosed with a particular disorder at a given time in a population is Prevelance] True False None . [An important structure adjacent to the brainstem that contains the hypothalamus (which controls emotions) and the thalamus (which relays sensory impulses to various portions of the cerebral cortex) is called the:] mesencephalon diencephalon inferior cerebellar peduncle superior cerebellar peduncle postcentral gyrus None . [T/F: the basal ganglia guides behavior mostly through inhibition] True False None . [T/F: neighborhood density of a word refers to the number of possible words that differ by one phoneme from it] True False None . [When a person is producing voiced and voiceless /th/, the muscle that is most involved is the] palatopharyngeus sternocleidomastoid genioglossus styloglossus buccinator None . [T/F: Acquired injury to the brain caused by an external force that results in partial or total functional disability, including physical, communication, cognitive, and psychosocial impairments is Traumatic brain injury] True False None . [T/F: afferent nerves are motor] True False None . [T/F: mastery is defined as 90% use of a given brown's morpheme given the obligatory context for that morpheme in a spontaneous language sample] True False None . [T/F: the highly gelatinous and pliable layer that is comprised of the superficial lamina propria and the epithelium is called the cover] True False None . [T/F: The cause of an occurrence (medical problem that results in a disorder or disability) is Etiology] True False None . [When a normal distribution of scores shows that the mean is 100 and 68% of the sampled children have scored between 85 and 115, the standard deviation of that distribution is:] 15 25 10 12.5 None . [Broca's area is involved in:] verb mediation motor sequencing phonetic processing all of the aboive None . Time's up
