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Conversational Skills Training: Teaching Adolescents with Mental Handicaps to Be Verbally Assertive.
Download full textDowning, June – 1985
The study examined an approach to train three adolescents with moderate mental handicaps to use the conversational skills of initiating a topic and continuing the conversation by cueing an adult listener to speak. The instructional techniques of modeling, prompting, delay, and social reinforcement were used in intervention. A single subject…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Assertiveness, Communication Skills, Cues
Kolotkin, Richard A.; Wielkiewicz, Richard M. – 1982
Assertive training interventions have become increasingly popular for teaching specific life skills to individuals, but spouses are rarely involved. To study the effects of training on marital relations and social skill, assertive training was conducted with married individuals (N= 4 couples) reporting less assertive ability than their spouses.…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Assertiveness, Behavior Change, Counseling Effectiveness
