The Social Competence Intervention Project: Developing Educational Procedures for Teaching Social Interaction Skills to Handicapped Children

Abstract

Social interaction with other children is a critical aspect of a child's development. Many handicapped children display pronounced deficits in this area of development. The Social Competence Intervention Project (SCIP) addressed the problem of social withdrawal of handicapped children by meeting four goals. These were (a) identify social behaviors that are likely to set the occasion for a positive social encounter, (b) evaluate the effectiveness of critical social initiations when used by handicapped children, (c) develop empirically valid teaching procedures, and (d) translate the results of the experimental studies of the first three goals into teacher training materials.