Full Name of the Test

The Templin-Darley Tests of Articulation 2 ^nd edition

Authors

Mildred C. Templin, Ph.D, Frederick L. Darley, Ph.D

Year of Publication

1969

Publisher

The University of Iowa

Current Cost (include a list of additional materials such as score forms, etc.)

Due to the age of this test, no current or past cost could be found.

Purpose of the test

Diagnostic: Used to obtain a detailed description and evaluation of a child’s articulation

Ages for whom the test is intended

3-8 years

List Subtests

Screening-only give the first 50 items

Diagnostic test-all 141 items

1.       Grouping of Consonant singles

2.       Iowa pressure Articulation

3.       /r/ and / d/ cluster grouping

4.       /l/ and /!/ cluster grouping

5.       /s/ cluster grouping of 2&3 phoneme clusters

6.       Misc. cluster grouping

7.       Vowel grouping

8.       Dipthong grouping

Describe the normative sample

176 items included in the first edition were administered to 480 children from 3-8 years of age.  Examinees were all white monolingual singletons of normal intelligence, with no evidence of hearing loss, enrolled in 14 public schools and 21 nursery schools in Minneapolis and St. Paul Minnesota.   The total of the 480 were divided into 8 sub samples of 60 children each at 3, 3-5, 4, 4-5, 5, 6, 7, and 8 years.   Each age group was tested within one month of designated age.  These children were selected to be used to represent the urban population of the U.S.  

Are the norms appropriate for use in Boone?

No

Describe how reliability was established

Only the test-retest reliability of the screening portion was reported in the manual.  The items were elicited in test words and in test sentences twice within eight days from 57 nursery school and kindergarten children.

Describe how validity was established

Screening portion: The coefficients on the word and sentence test obtained at a single session ranged from .97-.99.   The manner in which this information was obtained was not reported.

Describe a situation for which it would be chosen over the other tests

You are assessing a child with extensive articulation difficulties

Describe a situation for which it should not be chosen over the other tests.

The test is out of date and only normed for white singleton children in Minnesota