Analysis of parents' reports on social competence and behavioral problems for 123 learning disabled boys aged six to 11 revealed that on average, the parents reported significantly lower levels of social competence and more behavior problems than normative samples of parents. (Author/CL)

Considers variations among concepts of leadership, reviews efforts to provide leadership training, and describes seven leadership skills for the future: maintaining simultaneous awareness of the present and future; bridging gaps between interest groups; keeping abreast of change; appraising situations; enhancing intuition; managing symbols; and…

A classwide peer tutoring procedure stresses team competition and within-team cooperation and promotes social behavior in elementary children. Examples of the structural tutoring approach are given. (CL)

The article presents a four-step intervention model to both improve the social skills of socially isolated (often handicapped) children as well as improve peer attitudes. Use of the model with 6 autistic-like preschool children and 10 normal peers resulted in autistic Ss achieving positive interacton within the normal range. (DB)

The paper reviews the interpersonal social difficulties of learning disabled students, discusses possible reasons for the lack of social skills instruction to this population, and addresses the need to teach them social skills. (CL)

The article examines the social-academic nature of storytelling, reviews studies of narrative ability of learning disabled students, and offers suggestions for developing narratives in the classroom setting. (CL)

The social initiation intervention, in which nondisabled children are taught to direct social overtures to exceptional students, has been found to result in positive social behavior change. Extensive evaluations have revealed no negative side effects on peer trainers and increases in the social responding, social initiations, and length of…

The Personal Competence Profile was administered to 30 male adults with Down syndrome and 30 without Down syndrome matched on age, IQ, and years of instituionalization. Down syndrome subjects rated higher on attention, calmness, and niceness but lower on sensation, language, and boldness. (Author/CL)

The highest goal of the normalization has recently been clarified to be the establishment, enhancement, or defense of the social role(s) of a person or group, via the enhancement of people's social images and personal competencies. It is proposed that normalization be henceforth called "social role valorization." (Author)

The article suggests that mainstreaming efforts have been largely unsuccessful because of faulty assumptions, focus on academic attainment for handicapped children, and failure to consider the social development of handicapped children. Self-efficacy theory is cited as a way to refocus the process and teach positive social behaviors to…

The interaction place map, a mnemonic device which depicts the five most common places in which humans interact, can be used to teach social skills to elementary learning disabled students. Students can plot movement on the map as they move within an interaction. (CL)

Research is cited on methods to teach, generalize, and evaluate social interaction skills to handicapped children through specific systematic instruction that considers prompts, praise, training settings, time of day, teacher role, student grouping, and nature of activities. (CL)

The article on the effects of social and linguistic environment on language learning in children reviews findings on child-centered interaction styles, touching upon interactional style and language processing and cross-cultural studies of interactional style. (CL)

The paper reviews recent history of study of human emotions in psychology and traces factors that have been responsible for a remarkable increase of interest in emotions, especially as regulators of human behaviors. Research on social referencing is reviewed, showing importance of social referencing with infants as young as 8.5 months. Clinical…

Twelve mentally retarded persons who participated in a vocational-interpersonal skills and training program using modeling, coaching, and behavioral rehearsal improved their interpersonal skills, social competence, vocational problem behavior, and length of employment. Ss in a coaching-only group learned some interpersonal skills as well but not…