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. 2002 Winter;35(4):415–418. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2002.35-415

Shaping exhale durations for breath CO detection for men with mild mental retardation.

Jerry Rea 1, Dean Williams 1
PMCID: PMC1284405  PMID: 12555914

Abstract

Roll, Higgins, and Badger (1996) used a carbon monoxide (CO) detector to determine whether participants smoked in a smoking-cessation study. We sought to replicate their work with adults with mild mental retardation. However, verbal instructions were inadequate to establish stable exhalations of sufficient durations for reliable and accurate CO evaluation. This report describes a shaping procedure that enabled 3 of 4 participants to achieve 20-s exhalation durations.

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