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Raulston, Tracy J.; Hansen, Sarah G. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2022
Children on the autism spectrum often experience difficulty generalizing social skills across environments and contexts, which can make developing friendships challenging in early childhood. This means that, in addition to initial social skills instruction, children with autism may need specialized supports to promote the generalization of newly…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Play, Generalization, Interpersonal Competence
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Hong, Ee Rea; Neely, Leslie; Lund, Emily M. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2015
Bullying or any aggressive behavior of a more powerful person or group toward a less powerful person is a widespread problem in the U.S. educational system. While bullying is a significant problem for all students, students with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have a particularly high incidence rate of becoming victims of bullying. The social…
Descriptors: Bullying, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Interpersonal Competence
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Casey, Kathryn J. – Advances in Special Education (MS), 2012
There is a large body of literature suggesting that students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) lack appropriate social skills, including deficits in building and maintaining interpersonal relationships, prosocial behaviors (e.g., sharing, helping, cooperation), and self-management strategies. While the literature shows small to modest…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Intervention, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Best Practices
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Sartini, Emily C.; Knight, Victoria F.; Collins, Belva C. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2013
Many students with complex disabilities (e.g., moderate and severe disabilities, autism spectrum disorder) require explicit instruction in social skills in order to respond to and initiate interaction with their peers. This article reviews the research on developing social skills groups to teach peer interactions for students with complex special…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Autism, Social Support Groups, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Cumming, Therese M. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2010
Many students with emotional and behavioral disabilities do not receive the social skills training required for success in inclusive school settings or life after graduation. Teachers often cite lack of training and motivation as factors explaining this. This article describes a teaching sequence that enables students to create and utilize their…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Learning Modules, Interpersonal Competence, Skill Development
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Morrison, Rebecca S.; Blackburn, Amanda M. – TEACHING Exceptional Children Plus, 2008
Research supports the difficulties that students with Asperger's Syndrome (AS) and High-Functioning Autism (HFA) have in developing successful interpersonal relationships. While they want to establish friendships, students with AS fail to recognize and accurately interpret social cues and verbal and nonverbal behavior (Iovannone, Dunlap, Huber, &…
Descriptors: Cues, Autism, Asperger Syndrome, Program Descriptions
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Scattone, Dorothy – Psychology in the Schools, 2007
Autism is characterized by deficits in pretend play, perspective taking, initiating and responding to others, and other profound social impairments. As the incidence of children being identified with autism increases, so does the need for effective interventions that target social skills development. Over the last decade, social skills…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Teaching Methods, Play, Autism
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McIntosh Kent; MacKay, Leslie D. – Beyond Behavior, 2008
Sometimes educators are puzzled by how students can demonstrate a social skill perfectly during a practice session in a social skills curriculum but fail to use the same skill in real-life situations. Students with a lack of social skills are more likely to experience teacher and peer rejection, and are more at risk for negative life outcomes,…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Generalization, Classroom Techniques, Teachers
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Rolls, Edmund T. – Neuropsychologia, 2007
Neurophysiological evidence is described showing that some neurons in the macaque inferior temporal visual cortex have responses that are invariant with respect to the position, size and view of faces and objects, and that these neurons show rapid processing and rapid learning. Which face or object is present is encoded using a distributed…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Neurology, Physiology
Unruh, David – 1990
This paper presents the Hypothesis Testing Theory/Model and the Information Processing Model developed by M. Parrill-Bernstein in relation to the field of behavior disorders. The models provide a framework for (1) studying both problem solving skills and social behavior and (2) developing intervention programs for behavior disordered adolescents.…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavior Disorders, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education
Sikka, Anjoo; Tedder, Norma – 1990
This paper describes the planning of a qualitative research methodology to develop strategies to improve and expand social interaction skills of deaf-blind students in supported employment settings. Characteristics of qualitative research are delineated and include: definition of the domain of the research; an evolving study design; behavior…
Descriptors: Deaf Blind, Generalization, Interpersonal Competence, Interpersonal Relationship
Macklem, Gayle L. – Academic Therapy, 1987
A school-based short-term intervention used successfully with impulsive, aggressive, shy, oversensitive, attention-disordered, and language- and learning-disabled elementary school students features exercises and activities such as generating ideas, rehearsing behaviors, and adapting behaviors to help students learn to "enter" play groups and join…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Disabilities, Elementary Education, Generalization
Bertrand, Joanne – 1988
Social LIFE (Social Learning of Independence through Functional Experiences), a game used as a means of developing new social skills in a variety of settings and social situations and involving players and a mediator (instructor), is described. Appropriate responses to the game situations are rewarded by points or play money. Target behaviors or…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Disabilities, Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education
Paraschiv, Irina; Olley, J. Gregory – 1999
This paper describes the "Problem Solving for Life" training program which trains adolescents and adults with mental retardation in skills for solving social problems. The program requires group participants to solve social problems by practicing two prerequisite skills (relaxation and positive self-statements) and four problem solving steps: (1)…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Daily Living Skills, Generalization
Strain, Phillip S.; Kohler, Frank W. – 1991
This document presents the final report of a 4-year project (ending in 1991) which conducted six studies of the impact of various peer-mediated interventions on the acquisition, generalization, and maintenance of social interaction skills of preschoolers with severe disabilities. The report covers project objectives, the project's theoretical…
Descriptors: Autism, Classroom Observation Techniques, Contingency Management, Early Intervention
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