With reference to Behavioral Social Skills Training a program was devised to teach social abilities to an experimental group of 20 adolescents with Down's syndrome attending the first years of a vocational school for disabled youths. The program is made up of 10 didactic units aiming at increasing the ability to enact positive relational behaviors with teachers and peers, and 10 didactical units aiming at favoring generalization. Evaluation of training effectiveness, carried out according to criterion tests, direct observations, and teachers' evaluations, suggest that the program can in fact improve the social skills of persons with Down's syndrome. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
A social skill training for persons with Down's syndrom
SORESI, SALVATORE;NOTA, LAURA
2000
Abstract
With reference to Behavioral Social Skills Training a program was devised to teach social abilities to an experimental group of 20 adolescents with Down's syndrome attending the first years of a vocational school for disabled youths. The program is made up of 10 didactic units aiming at increasing the ability to enact positive relational behaviors with teachers and peers, and 10 didactical units aiming at favoring generalization. Evaluation of training effectiveness, carried out according to criterion tests, direct observations, and teachers' evaluations, suggest that the program can in fact improve the social skills of persons with Down's syndrome. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)Pubblicazioni consigliate
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