This study evaluated an intensive interpersonal communication training method for nonspecifically trained vocational rehabilitation counselors who were enrolled in a work-study program. The results indicate that the intensive interpersonal communication training method is an effective way to increase the participants' communication functioning…

Comparison of the perceptions of 80 learning disabled adolescents and their parents indicated that over 75% of both groups agreed that academic, cognitive, and social aspects of learning disabilities persisted into adolescence. Parents, however, rated students' academic, social, and problem solving skills lower than did the students.(DB)

A study of the correlation between certification test results and ratings of clinical competence for graduate medical students in internal medicine during a six-year period found strong correlations on both individual and general indicators of competence. (MSE)

Investigated whether trait differences in self-consciousness would account for egocentric attribution bias in social interaction. Bias was greater for high public self-consciousness. Public self-consciousness had no effect in the Interaction Unimportant Condition where social interaction was not salient. Contrary to prediction, however, the…

Campus activities and organizations offer learning experiences primarily through interpersonal skills development and organizational processes, although the potential for intentional, specific learning is unlimited. Student activities that are well planned and implemented enhance both the richness of educational experiences and the student…

A multicomponent treatment package consisting of role playing, graphic feedback, contingent reinforcement, and self-monitoring increased the rate of positive statements among four handicapped high school youth during a social/leisure activity at a work training setting. There was no evidence of generalization to other activities. (Author/DB)

Public Law 94-142 denies socially maladjusted students services for the seriously emotionally impaired unless determined these students are seriously emotionally disturbed; thus practitioners must be able to reliably distinguish between these two conditions. Developed a set of items to differentiate between these two groups. Eleven items met the…

A review of current theory and practice regarding social skills training for children with behavior problems precedes the proposal of a different approach to social skills training, which takes into account the effects of social perception biases of peers which may hinder mainstreaming attempts. (Author/CB)

In October 1983, the National Institute of Handicapped Research (NIHR) released its report on the state-of-the-art meeting on the Special Rehabilitation Needs of Learning Disabled Adults. This article presents the seven research priorities forwarded to NIHR and the method by which they were generated. (Author/CT)

Teacher contributed practices concerning mainstreaming of handicapped students are grouped into the following categories: regular/special education cooperation and teaming; promoting staff, student, and parent understanding; communication about students and instructional methods; building social skills and self esteem; participation in…

Using a questionnaire, the study examined the social self-perceptions of 41 physically disabled and 50 nonhandicapped adults in France, as well as perceptions of the disabled by the nonhandicapped. On certain response items, the disabled subjects manifested a tendency to see themselves as they were perceived by the nonhandicapped. (JW)

This study investigated the ways in which the gender of group leader and client might affect treatment outcome with young adolescents. Results revealed gender differences between male and female adolescents on outcome measures, no difference on outcome due to leader gender, and one interaction effect on a measure of social skills. (Author/LMO)

When the parents and teacher of a minimally brain-injured kindergarten student understood that the cognitive style of this "slow learner" (inaccurately perceived as laziness or immaturity) required her to observe and evaluate before participating in a learning or social activity, they were able to enhance her learning style. (CB)

The article reviews studies on vocational adjustment of the learning disabled as well as current practices and concludes that secondary programs should provide six types of vocationally relevant activities including: occupational awareness/exploration, vocational assessment, instruction in job-related academic skills, instruction in job-related…

Discusses the concept of politeness in language and its importance and implications in the foreign language classroom, covering interactional rules and competence, politeness as a social-psychological phenomenon, politeness as a learning goal and subject matter, and politeness in discourse. (CB)