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Peer Interventions
- Source :
- Behavior Modification. 9:293-321
- Publication Year :
- 1985
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 1985.
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Abstract
- The efficacy of peer-mediated intervention for increasing social behaviors in blind, multihandicapped children was examined in a multiple-baseline analysis. Two nonhandicapped peers were trained to direct social initiations to four multihandicapped subjects during free play. An increase in play initiations by peers served to increase social behaviors in multihandicapped subjects. Moderate generalization of treatment effects was obtained under circumstances that differed from the intervention condition in that peers were present but not administering treatment. Maintenance of treatment gains was evidenced at a four-month follow-up. This study expands the literature on social skills training of the blind by targeting young, multihandicapped children with age-relevant skills, and on peer-mediated intervention by focusing on socially withdrawn children whose condition is complicated by severe physical disabilities.
- Subjects :
- Male
050103 clinical psychology
education
Psychological intervention
MEDLINE
Social rehabilitation
Blindness
Peer Group
Developmental psychology
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Intervention (counseling)
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Humans
Disabled Persons
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Child
Socialization
05 social sciences
050301 education
Peer group
Clinical Psychology
Female
Psychology
0503 education
Social behavior
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15524167 and 01454455
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Behavior Modification
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....62ab59bcb2d8fa08ae5558c3c78787f3
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/01454455850093002