SALT 2012 - What's New?
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We are very excited about this new version of SALT and we hope you will be too. It's been over two years since we released SALT 2010 and we've been busy writing a textbook, and collecting, transcribing, analyzing, and coding additional language samples for the reference databases built into SALT 2012.
New Textbook
ASSESSING LANGUAGE PRODUCTION USING SALT SOFTWARE: A Clinician's Guide to Language Sample Analysis (Miller, J.F., Andriacchi, K., & Nockerts, A. (2011).
This new textbook incorporates 25 years of research and clinical practice using language sample analysis. It provides both the conceptual background of LSA and practical guidelines for using SALT. It comes with every version of SALT 2012 and may also be purchased separately.
Improvements to the Software
• New report format. The old report format has been replaced. Print these updated reports or save them as pdf files to incorporate into your evaluations and client records.
• All versions of SALT 2012 come with built-in support for Spanish and French transcription and analysis. In addition, SALT 2012 uses an expanded character set (UTF-8) which allows for transcription in many other languages. The prefix convention was added to support prefix-based languages.
• New reports have been added.
:: The Database menu is now available with linked transcripts, allowing for a side-by-side report of two samples, each compared to age or grade-matched peers.
:: The Grammatical Category report has been added due to the generosity of Dr. Ron Channell who contributed the algorithm, dictionary, and software code. All the words in the transcripts are categorized into 23 grammatical parts of speech, e.g., nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, coordinators, subordinators. Counts of each category are given with the option of listing the words within each category.
:: The new Omissions and Error Codes report summarizes the omitted words, morphemes, and clitics, and the words and utterances coded as errors.
• The transcription conventions have been expanded to include marking prefixes, e.g., un\happy, and hyphenated words, e.g., mother-in-law.
• Research version only: The Rectangular Data File utility now uses more meaningful labels and includes a variable key. All new variables have been added.
New Reference Databases
• New Play database with play-based conversational samples from typically developing children, ranging in age from 2;8 - 5;8, drawn from preschools in Madison and kindergartens in the Madison Metropolitan Public School District. These children, whose primary language is English, came from a variety of economic backgrounds and ability levels. All samples consist of an examiner playing with child using playdough or small toys.
• 155 additional samples from 5th and 6th graders from public schools in Madison and the Milwaukee area were added to both the Expository database and the Narrative Story Retell database.
• More than 2,000 samples, based on 2 additional frog stories, were added to the Bilingual Spanish/English Story Retell databases.
• New Bilingual Spanish/English Unique Story database with 475 samples based on telling (not retelling) a frog story.
• New Zealand Expository database has been added, with samples collected from New Zealand children aged 6;1 – 7;11. A total of 65 six- and seven-year-old participants were recruited from three primary schools located in suburban Auckland, New Zealand (NZ). This database was contributed by Marleen Westerveld who was supported by a Massey University Research Fund award.
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System Requirements
128 MB of RAMHard disk with 300 - 560 MB of available space (depends on SALT version)
Windows® 7/XP/Vista/2000