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Poling, Alan; Weetjens, Bart; Cox, Christophe; Beyene, Negussie; Durgin, Amy; Mahoney, Amanda – Behavior Analyst, 2011
In recent years, operant discrimination training procedures have been used to teach giant African pouched rats to detect tuberculosis (TB) in human sputum samples. This article summarizes how the rats are trained and used operationally, as well as their performance in studies published to date. Available data suggest that pouched rats, which can…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Animals, Evaluation Methods, Investigations
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Heilmann, John J.; Miller, Jon F.; Nockerts, Ann – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2010
Purpose: Over the past 50 years, language sample analysis (LSA) has evolved from a powerful research tool that is used to document children's linguistic development into a powerful clinical tool that is used to identify and describe the language skills of children with language impairment. The Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts (SALT; J.…
Descriptors: Research Tools, Language Impairments, Discriminant Analysis, Databases