Abstract
The present study implemented social skills training (SST) with a preschool boy who was socially withdrawn, in order to facilitation his social initiations and decrease his off-task behavior. The target skills were selected from a behavior analysis of the boy's social initiations with his teacher and his classmates. We examined whether improvement in the selected target skills would promote the child's initiation of social interactions with his classmates. The social skills training consisted of 7 sessions focusing on 2 target skills: listening and questioning. During the training, the boy's questioning skills improved in the training room, and his social initiations toward his peers in free play increased. His off-task behavior during class activities gradually decreased, and he participated by modeling peer behavior. The teacher rated the boy's socially withdrawn behavior as improved by the training.
