An analytic review of instructional materials purporting to teach social skills to handicapped children is presented. Social targets, peer social interaction, peers as training agents, and the inclusion of elements of systematic instruction are the focal points of the review. (Author)

Turnover, reasons for termination, productivity, and number of hours worked as a function of demographic data, workshop settings, and measures of sociability for mentally disabled adults at six sheltered workshop settings were examined. (Author)

Social skill training programs consisting of structured learning training alone and with the addition of coping modeling displays were employed to teach aggressive and passive elementary school age educable mentally retarded children (N=96) appropriate assertive responses. (Author/SB)

Despite the disadvantages of overemphasizing single components in research endeavors, studies in the area of social skills generally have been restricted to assertion. Two experiments were conducted to demonstrate social skills other that assertion. A case was made for diversifying future study among social skills with explicated research. (Author)

The study was undertaken to determine if there were differences in the social perception of 23 learning disabled (LD) and 34 nonLD elementary school children. Results showed that LD children were less accurate in their perception of social interactions than normal children. (Author/SB)

Participants in assertiveness training groups who rated their degree of interest in improving their assertive skills in 26 areas indicated that being assertive when confronted with another's aggression was the highest priority, whereas saying no in various situations assumed a much lower priority. (Author)

An assessment instrument developed to measure applied reading and comprehension skills, direction following (using information from the reading passages), applied number skills, and social adaptation to a work situation was administered to 30 developmentally disabled adolescents. (Author)

Experimental and control groups, each composed of 14 teachers enrolled in a 1980 summer graduate workshop, were assessed to determine the relationship of human relations skill training to development of positive self-concept. Results proved positive with the experimental group gaining at a significant level over the control group following…

The study examined social interaction of partially mainstreamed elementary grade children with their hearing (N=84) and hearing impaired (N=32) peers. It was found that hearing impaired children interacted less frequently with peers and more frequently with teachers than did hearing children. (Author)

The social-cognitive skills of 38 retarded children ages 24 to 92 months were assessed on a set of communication tasks. Results indicated that the social-cognitive skills of both retarded and nonretarded children were related to social age. (Author)

Some significant relationships were established between certain observable behaviors and Wechsler performance test scores earned by 104 hearing-impaired persons, all students or former students at a state residential school for the deaf. (Author)

The role of parents in promoting affective development and interpersonal competence in gifted and talented children is probed. (CL)

Focusing on children in preschool or early school settings, this paper attempts to identify research-based uses of the term social competence and to formulate a definition reflecting consensus across different research perspectives. (Author/SB)

Good supervisors must be aware of patterns of behavior which limit their effectiveness and should develop eclectic approaches utilizing effective human relations skills in each situation. (MB)

Examined the ability of adults to judge social signals (glances or looks at their social partners) in children with and without developmental delays. Found that participants were more confident of their judgments of looks for non-delayed toddlers than for those with delays. Signal detection statistics indicated that looks of delayed toddlers were…