Acquisition of social skills by mentally retarded adult training assistants.
Two moderately retarded adults were employed as assistant trainers with mentally retarded peers who were being trained in appropriate social behaviour. Using a multiple baseline across behaviours and subjects, it was found that the effective aspect of training was participating in and observing training of specific target behaviours rather than attention and social reinforcement for appropriate responses. Acquisition of target behaviours occurred in a short period of time and generalised to the natural environment (recreation hall).
D000328:Adult; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007100:Imitative Behavior; D007326:Institutionalization; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D012917:Social Adjustment; D014705:Verbal Behavior