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A Review of Social Interventions for Students with Learning Disabilities

Ruth Mcintosh, PhD, is a research associate in the School of Education at the University of Miami. Her primary research interests include social and behavioral functioning of students with learning and behavior problems. Address: Ruth Mclntosh, School of Education, Po Box 248065, Coral Gablex, FL 33124-2040.

Sharon Vaughn

Sharon Vaughn, PhD, is an associate professor in the departments of Special Education and Reading and Psychology at the University of Miami.

Nina Zaragoza

Nina Zaragoza, PhD, is an assistant professor in the School of Education at Michigan State University.

Twenty-two studies are reviewed that report the effects of social skills training and intervention with 572 children identified as learning disabled between 5 and 19 years of age. These studies are reviewed to examine characteristics and components of intervention effectiveness. Age and sex of subjects, grade grouping, group size, intervention duration, intervention procedures, subject selection, and type of interventional model are examined to find patterns that reflect intervention success. Several intervention characteristics and components are associated with social intervention effectiveness: selecting subjects who had social skills difficulties or low peer acceptance, using cognitive-behavioral intervention procedures, providing individual or small group instruction, and applying long-term intervention and training. Discussion focuses on difficulties in comparing studies to determine intervention effectiveness through the examination of outcome measures, a call for revisions in future reporting of social interventions in the literature, and those intervention factors that relate to increases in peer acceptance.

Journal of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 24, No. 8, 451-458 (1991)
DOI: 10.1177/002221949102400802


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