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Social skills training has been used in school settings for students with emotional and/or behavioral problems, or EBD students, since the 1980’s (Zionts, 1996). The rationale behind teaching social skills to modify the chronically disruptive behaviors of EBD students is that, to profit from mainstream curriculum, these children     need more than just being placed in regular classroom settings with regular classroom peers. Because these students show severe deficits in the social skills they need to be able to interact in a positive and constructive way with teachers and peers, school staff needs to teach explicitly the social skills these children are lacking. Zionts cites research that supports the hypothesis that students who exhibit social skills deficits in the earlier years face both short-and long-term negative consequences that appear to be the precursors of more severe problems in adolescence and adulthood. Definition of Social Skills   Generally speak...

Here are the table of contents and some background information from my book School Help: A Teacher and Tutor G uide to Help the Older Student with Limited Word Reading Fluency . Contents Background Cue System One: Phonological Knowledge Cue System Two: Decoding Cue System Three: Sight Vocabulary Cue System Four: Morphological Knowledge Cue System Five: Pattern Recognition Cue System Six: Finding Smaller Words Cue System Seven: Structural Analysis Cue System Eight: Semantic Knowledge Cue System Nine: Syntactic Analysis Concluding Comments About the Author Background Older students with limited word pronunciation, or limited reading decoding, lack knowledge in strategy using, revealing little or no understanding that different words require different word attack strategies. When they try to strategize, these children are inflexible in the decoding strategy they use, on most occasions, using the same reading decoding strategy for a...