Assessment of social skills in visually-handicapped adolescents |
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| Authors: | V B Van Hasselt M Hersen A E Kazdin |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Behavioural Science and Health, University College London, London, UK;2. SPECTRUM Consortium, UK;3. Addictions Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King''s College London, UK;1. Department of Geography and Environment, Western University, Canada;2. Faculty of Health Disciplines, Athabasca University, Canada;3. Children''s Health Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada;4. School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, Brescia University College, Canada;5. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University, Canada;6. Department of Pediatrics, Western University, Canada;7. Lawson Health Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada;1. King''s College London, United Kingdom;2. Universidad de Málaga, Andalucía TECH, IBIMA, Spain;3. Hospital Carlos Haya Málaga, Spain;4. Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón Madrid, Spain;5. University of Michigan, USA;6. Universidad de Sevilla, IBIS, Spain;1. Dana Center for Preventive Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland;2. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland;3. Department of Non-communicable Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland;4. Cambridge University Hospitals, and Vision and Eye Research Institute, School of Medicine, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom;5. Indigenous Eye Health Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Melbourne, Australia;6. School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, and Brien Holden Vision Institute, Sydney, Australia, and Organization pour la Prévention de la Cécité, Paris, France |
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| Abstract: | The present study provided a comprehensive behavioral assessment of social skill in visually-handicapped adolescents. Role-play tests, standardized interviews, parent ratings and judgements of physical attractiveness were employed to evaluate level of social functioning among: (1) 18 visually-handicapped adolescents in a residential school; (2) 17 visually-handicapped adolescents in public schools; and (3) 17 sighted adolescents in public schools. Results indicated that visually-handicapped adolescents exhibited deficits on selected verbal components of social skill. Moreover, these deficiencies were most apparent in visually-handicaped Ss from a residential setting. Findings are discussed in terms of the utility of social skills training for a subset of visually-handicapped adolescents and the importance of additional controlled research with visually-handicapped persons. |
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