Abstract
The purpose of this paper was to review the studies of social skills training with mentally retarded children. First, it was stressed how important it is for mentally retarded children to learn the appropriate social skills in order to be well adjusted to their communities and schools. Then the social skills training techniques were divided into five categories, contingent reinforcement, modeling, peer mediated, combined, emvironmental manipulation methods, and each technique was evaluated in the light of the studies with it. It was concluded that social skills training with mentally retatded children has much room for improvement in assessment of subjects' social skills and selection of target behaviors. And the importance of further studies to take up the skills with high social validity was pointed out and the techniques which promote generalization of the learned social skills were expected.
