Improving the Conversational Skills of a College Student with Peer-Mediated Behavioral Skills Training.
We used a multiple baseline design across behaviors to evaluate peer-mediated behavioral skills training to improve a complex repertoire of conversational skills of an undergraduate student diagnosed with a learning disability NOS. Following treatment, we observed a decrease in interrupting and content specificity and an increase in questioning. Treatment effects maintained with naïve peers during unstructured conversations and outcomes compared favorably with normative data on the conversational skills of three undergraduates without learning disabilities.
Western New England University, Springfield, MA USA ; Department of Psychology, Regis College, 235 Wellesley Street, Weston, MA 02493 USA.
Lauren
L
Beaulieu
Western New England University, Springfield, MA USA.
Gregory P
GP
Hanley
Western New England University, Springfield, MA USA.
Joana L
JL
Santiago
Behavioral skills training; Conversational skills; Intraverbals; Mands; Peer mediation