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Martha is a 77-year-old resident in a nursing home.  Over the past several weeks, she has displayed a gradual decrease in function and safety is now a concern. Staff has begun restraining her in her wheelchair with a posey vest as they are afraid, she will fall should she try to walk without help. At night she is restrained in bed with a roll belt with the side rails up. She is referred to the restraint/falls committee for evaluation and recommendations.  Answer the following questions regarding Martha. Martha’s family requests that the nursing home use restraints. You educate the family on the types physical restraints which include all EXCEPT:

Children with inadequate velopharyngeal closure have the most difficulty producing ______ correctly because they cannot develop sufficient intraoral pressure.

In the source-filter theory, the source is the ____ and the filter is the ______.

Damage to the Upper Motor Neurons results in:

Fluency shaping approaches involve using strategies to smooth speech out to reduce the likelihood of stuttering.

All of the following would be classified as speech disorders EXCEPT:

In a factory, there is a 15% chance that a machine will produce a defective part in a single operation. If each operation is independent, what is the expected number of operations to produce the first defective part?

Assume that you have two fair six sided dice. Determine the probability that rolling a pair of dice and getting doubles and a sum of 8. (doubles:  both dice show the same number)

All of the following increase the width of a confidence interval except:  

On average, 30 minutes TV-shows have 22 minutes of actual program. Let’s assume the probability distribution for number of minutes of actual program is uniformly distributed from a low of 18 minutes to high of 26 minutes.   What is the probability the show will have between 21 minutes and 25 minutes of programming?