title: Social skills training to enhance the interpersonal adjustment of a speech and hearing impaired adult.
abstract: A speech and hearing-impaired adult male received social skills training consisting of modeling instruction and behavior rehearsal in a controlled multiple baseline design to increase his nonverbal interpersonal communication skills. Treatment resulted in improvement in objective behavioral components during role-played interactions and generalized to untrained situations. Issues related to the importance of interpersonal social skills training for the speech- and hearing-impaired are discussed.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012919:Social Behavior; D013060:Speech; D013064:Speech Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*