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InterventionsAcquisition and Generalization of Social Skills in Elementary-Aged Children with Learning DisabilitiesJ.M. Blackbourn is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Counseling and Special Educational Programs at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. He has a PhD in educational psychology from Mississippi State University. His current research interests involve facilitating skill generalization in handicapped children as well as evaluating and improving special education teacher training programs. Address: J.M. Blackbourn, PO Box I3019 SFA Station, Nacogdoches, TX 75962. The generalization of specific social skills to new environments/situations by elementary-aged students with learning disabilities was the primary focus of this study. During the spring semester of 1985, training in the learning disabilities resource room, including a discussion and verbal rehearsal of appropriate skill use and positive consequences of using the specific social skill appropriately, was initiated. Once the subject became proficient in the skill of interest, attempts to establish the skill outside the resource room were initiated (training sufficient exemplars). Reinforcement in the form of systematic attention was delivered in the new environments by teachers and parents. During the fall semester of 1985 each of the subjects was again observed with respect to the behaviors of interest. All subjects manifested generalization of the social skills to the new environments.
Journal of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 22, No. 1,
28-34 (1989) This article has been cited by other articles:
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