Identification and validation of critical conversational social skills

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 431-446

  Hughes, Carolyn ^a   Lorden, Sarah W ^b   Scott, Stacey V ^b   Hwang, Bogseon ^b   Derer, Kristine R ^b   Rodi, Michael S ^b   Pitkin, Sarah E ^b   Godshall, Joy C ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Conversational social skills; High school students; Mental retardation; Social validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345911719     PISSN: 00218855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jaba.1998.31-431     Document Type: Article

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