title: An evaluation of capuchin monkeys trained to help severely disabled individuals. The Rehabilitation R&D Evaluation Unit, Rehabilitation Research and Development Service, Department of Veterans Affairs.
abstract: This report describes an evaluation made by the Rehabilitation R&D Evaluation Unit (REU) of research conducted jointly by Helping Hands, Inc., Boston, MA and Boston University which was funded by the Rehabilitation Research and Development Service, Department of Veterans Affairs. The report covers an assessment conducted in February and March 1989 to determine the activities, effectiveness, advantages, and disadvantages exhibited by the capuchin monkeys placed as aides in the residences of disabled persons.
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000818:Animals; D002428:Cebus; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010805:Physical Conditioning, Animal / Q000592:standards*; D011782:Quadriplegia / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States; D014493:United States Department of Veterans Affairs