Abstract
The present study examined the effect of social skills training (SST), including rehearsal of game activities. Participants were 3 elementary school boys (1 fourth grader and 2 fifth graders) with learning disabilities, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or Asperger syndrome. The boys' behavior during free time was rated on 4 categories of interaction among children, and on a social skills scale. After training, 2 of the boys' cooperative behavior improved, and they had a reduced amount of aggressive and negative behavior, but the third boy did not improve. Because after the social skills training involving rehearsal of game activities, the behavior of some but not all the boys changed, this suggests that each disability requires its own method of social skills training. Remaining problems are assessment, and how to achieve generalization.
