social-skills-training

Behavioral Skills Training (BST) teaches social skills through structured sequencing of modeling, rehearsal, and feedback. You identify a target social skill, run a BST-based session, and use built-in data collection to measure performance gaps and learner progress.

Planning social skills interventions requires structured curriculum design and generalization planning. This approach supports grouping and generalization across clinical, school, and home settings by integrating peer-mediated strategies and social stories to ensure skills transfer across partners.

Video modeling and peer-mediated strategies can be combined to run social skills groups. The framework supports basic, video self-modeling (VSM), and point-of-view (POV) video modeling alongside peer-mediated interventions to teach greetings, conversation, and turn-taking.

Assessing social skills deficits is needed before starting training to identify specific performance gaps. A BST-based assessment framework evaluates current learner capabilities to inform targeted curriculum design and group programming decisions.

Yes, the social skills training approach supports ABA data collection during BST sessions. It provides structured components for tracking learner responses during modeling, rehearsal, and feedback phases to monitor acquisition and generalization.

Using only social stories without BST limits teaching conversation skills because it lacks the active rehearsal and feedback components. Combining social stories with BST sequencing and peer-mediated strategies provides structured generalization and performance feedback.