Social Integration and Severe Disabilities

The purpose of this study was to examine the collateral relationship between engagement in social interaction with peers and the occurrence of stereotypic behavior for two children with severe disabilities. Peers without disabilities were taught to make social initiations to two children with autism and other severe disabilities who engaged in high rates of stereotypic behavior. When the peers made social initiations and the children with disabilities increased their engagement in social interaction, collateral decreases occurred in their stereotypic behavior. Within an ABAB design, the functional relationship between these variables was demonstrated. Implications of these findings for designing interventions for promoting social integration and their possible effects on stereotypic behavior are noted.

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A PEER-MEDIATED SOCIAL NETWORK INTERVENTION TO ENHANCE THE SOCIAL INTEGRATION OF PERSONS WITH MODERATE AND SEVERE DISABILITIES

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis ◽

10.1901/jaba.1992.25-319 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 319-333 ◽

Cited By ~ 123

Author(s):

Thomas G. Haring ◽

Catherine G. Breen

Keyword(s):

Social Network ◽

Social Integration ◽

Severe Disabilities ◽

Social Network Intervention ◽

The Social ◽

Network Intervention

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The Effect of Mentoring versus Job Coach Instruction on Integration in Supported Employment Settings

Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps ◽

10.1177/154079699702200303 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

pp. 151-158 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Mellanie Lee ◽

Keith Storey ◽

Jacki L. Anderson ◽

Lori Goetz ◽

Steve Zivolich

Keyword(s):

Social Integration ◽

Supported Employment ◽

Comparison Group ◽

Severe Disabilities ◽

New Employees ◽

Job Coach ◽

Training Strategies ◽

Mentor Model ◽

Mentoring Model ◽

Pizza Hut

Thirty employees at Pizza Hut were observed to examine the effects of three training strategies on social integration. These training strategies represented: (a) the traditional job coach model, (b) a mentoring model, and (c) the use of management and coworkers to train new employees without disabilities. This research found that employees with severe disabilities trained using the mentor model had more interactions with nondisabled coworkers than those trained using the job coach model. The data also indicate that the nondisabled comparison group had more interactions than either the job coach or mentoring groups, and that the types of interactions did not vary among the three groups.

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