190 PART II Resources for Assessing Communicative Disorders FORM 6-2, Diadochokinetic Syllable Rates Worksheet Name: Examiner: — Age: Date: Instructions: Time the number of seconds it takes your elient to complete eaet task the prescribed number of times. The average number of seconds for children from 6 10 13 yess of age is reported om the right-hand Side of the table, The standard deviation (SD) from the mean is also represented. Subtract the SD from the noem te Aetermine each SD interval. For example, wsing the /pa/ norm with a 6-yedr-old, 3.8 (4.8-1.0) is one SD, (48-2.0) istwo SDs, 2.3 4.8-2.5) is two-and-a-half SDs, etc, Therefore, a 6-year-old child whe needed 2.6 seconds to complete the pa! sequence would be two SDs below the mean Norms in seconds for diadochokinenic syllable rates Age! Task __Repetitions _Seconds 6 7 8 9§ wu eis pa 20 —— | 48 48 42 40 37 36 34 33 6 20 49° «49 44 41 3S ks 20 SS 53 48 46 43 40 39 37 Standard Deviation: L010 07 07 06 06 0606 patake 10 —— | ms wo 83 77 71 65 6a 57 Standard Deviation 28 28 20 20 1S 15 18 15 Comments Norms are from “*ime-by-Count Measurement of Diadochokinetic Syllable Ret “by S.G. Fletcher, 1972, Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 15, pp. 763-770. Copyright by the American Speech-Language Hearing Association. Reprinted with permission