Peer-mediated social-skills training and generalization in group homes

✍ Scribed by Doris Weili Duan; Shirley O'Brien

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 130 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1072-0847
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-078x(199811)13:4<235::aid-bin24>3.0.co;2-m

✦ Synopsis

A multiple baseline across subjects design was used to evaluate generalization eects of a peertutoring procedure to teach social skills for individuals with developmental disabilities. Three residents with poor social skills living in community-based group homes served as participants in this study. Generalization data were collected during four conditions: (i) baseline (ii) social-skills training by therapist (iii) social-skills training by peer-tutor, and (iv) follow-up. Results demonstrated that participants did not generalize trained social skills to untrained settings (i.e., living room of a group home and community bowling alley) until the ®rst participant was trained as a peer-tutor to train two other participants. These results were maintained 6 months after training was withdrawn.