Discriminative Stimulus Social Skills Training: The Effects of Video-Based Exemplars of Teacher Requests on the Compliance of Students with Behavioral Disorders:

Virtually all social skills training (SST) regimens incorporate live or video modeling to effect gains in the targeted skills; there seems to be an implicit assumption that a behavioral model must be shown. The experimental literature to date has not investigated the effects of presenting video-based stimulus exemplars in the absence of video-based response models. In the present study two concurrent, yet independent, experiments evaluated the effectiveness of two SST regimens on the compliance of students with emotional and behavioral disorders. The first experiment represents the initial application of a video-based SST procedure, Discriminative Stimulus Social Skills Training (DS-SST). This intervention included multiple video-based exemplars of teacher requests within instruction designed to establish the requests as discriminative stimuli for individual responses that, collectively, were members of the response class, “compliance.” The second experiment evaluated the effectiveness of a novel, yet mor...