Conversational Skills Training [electronic resource] : Teaching Adolescents with Mental Handicaps to Be Verbally Assertive / June Downing.

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 w...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Downing, June
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1985.
Subjects:	Adolescents. Assertiveness. Communication Skills. Cues. Generalization. Interpersonal Competence. Moderate Mental Retardation. Prompting. Secondary Education. Social Development.