The research described in this dissertation examined the effects of a self-instructional strategy training program on the ability of secondary educable mentally handicapped (EMH) students to transfer social skills from the setting in which they were learned to other environments. The six subjects selected for this study were students enrolled in a public school secondary program for students who are educable mentally handicapped. Subjects were selected based on teacher referral, parental permission, and student consent. The purpose of the training was to teach subjects to respond appropriately in situations that might occur outside the training environment when they interact with authority figures in school or work settings. Observational settings during baseline and transfer probes were the subjects' special education classroom(s), vocational workshop area, and mainstream classroom(s). Training, conducted by the researcher, consisted of a board game activity that used role-play and modeling to teach appropriate responses to interactions with authority figures, and a self-instructional strategy to help subjects remember the correct words and affects to use in these situations. Dependent measures, social skills responses, were directly observed during baseline and transfer, and recorded on the Social Skills Checklist (SSC). Results were assessed based on the number of correct social responses transferred to non-trained settings. Research procedures provided for interobserver and procedural reliability. The design for the study was multiple baseline across subjects. Data were analyzed by visual inspection of SSC scores displayed on graphs. Results indicated that all subjects demonstrated increases in overall correct social responses in non-trained settings during the transfer phase. All subjects save one demonstrated increases in the three skill areas individually targeted for them. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-04, Section: A, page: 1197. / Major Professor: Gideon R. Jones. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1990.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_78223 |
| Contributors | Pankaskie, Sara Jeter Carter., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 125 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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