exam 5 101

Individuals with apraxia will struggle most with...

• processing sensory information
• longer more complex words or phrases

• automatic speech

• understanding spoken language

What happens during the oral preparatory phase of the swallow?

• Food is swallowed directly without chewing
• Saliva is not involved in the process
• The bolus is formed in the stomach
• Food is chewed and mixed with saliva to form a bolus.

What strategy might an SLP use for a patient with dysphagia

• Modifying food textures,

• Modify the environment

• Referring the patient to a physical therapist
• Prescribing medication for the patient

What speech disorder occurs as a result of neuromuscular weakness?

• Aphasia
• Apraxia
• Dysarthria
• Dysphagia

What is a key goal of motor speech disorder treatment?

• Improve communication abilities and speech intelligibility
• Increase muscle strength
• Improve memory retention
• Enhance taste perception

SLPs engage in literacy intervention

• Yes

• No

Key features of dysarthria include:

• Fast speech
• Slurred speech, slow speech, abnormal pitch, rhythm changes
• Clear speech
• Consistent pitch

Key features of apraxia include:

• Difficulty planning and coordinating movements,

• errors in the sequence of movements,

• inability to imitate gestures or perform skilled tasks

• Difficulty in reading and writing

Phonological awareness is a predictor of what?

• math success
• writing success
• science success
• reading success

In literacy treatment what is blending

• Blending is the ability to read a sentence fluently
• Blending is the process of separating sounds in a word
• Blending is the act of summarizing a paragraph
• Blending is the ability to combine individual sounds together to pronounce a word.