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Advanced Methods & Assessment: Learning Strategy and Content Mastery for Struggling Learners & Students with
High-Incidence Disabilities
Social Skills Assessment and Intervention
Reflection
Assignment Purpose
The Social Skills Assessment and Intervention assignment was a two part project that
analyzed a variety of documentation in order to determine social skills that the given student
needed to improve and interventions for improving those skills. This assignment is designed for
educators to develop their skills in recognizing and providing social skills intervention and
instruction. It also provides instructors with a variety of instruments to use and analyze when
determining areas for instruction. By utilizing these instruments and interpretive methods, it is
easier to determine if a student has a performance deficit with regard to the targeted skill or if
they have a skills deficit and require explicit instruction to improve their performance in the
targeted skill. This helps educators devise effective interventions that are more likely to increase
Assignment Requirements
student that included documentation such as his IEP, teacher interview notes, progress reports
documentation, the student was observed in social interactions with peers. A discrepancy
analysis was performed and interpreted to select a specific social skill that the student needed to
improve. A variety of factors were selected to address during interventions that I suggested. The
intervention plan proposed needed to include explicit instructional methods, social skill
prompting and coaching methods, social understanding and social problem solving methods and
peer mediated strategies. The intervention plan also included an evaluation to assess the
When analyzing the information provided on Bobby (a case study student), I suggested
that he was experiencing a performance deficit in the area of conversation skills with peers.
Bobby had difficulty with perspective taking and speaking on topics that were not of interest to
himself. He also became verbally aggressive and defensive when receiving feedback or a
negative response. My intervention plan for Bobby included beginning with an interest
inventory of himself and then performing an interest inventory of a peer to compare their
interests and identify students who shared common interests with Bobby. Bobby would also
intervention plan included video modeling and video prompting regarding successful
conversational skills, including initiating and entering conversations. I proposed using clips
from movies that Bobby enjoyed initially for models. Later, I proposed using movie clips to
prompt appropriate responses by Bobby and also assess his awareness of body language and
nonverbal cues. I also proposed later creating video models incorporating Bobbys peers and
himself and a consequence map regarding his reactions in conversations. My intervention plan
for Bobby also included a scripted story to address entering a conversation. I also proposed peer
This assignment helped me better apply strategies that I was already familiar with as an
educator. The case study was an excellent opportunity to apply strategies in a structured
scenario. I found this assignment helpful in analyzing the ways social skills can be analyzed and
improved. The assignment provided opportunities to utilize assessment instruments that I was
not familiar with and interpret my findings. I did not make any revisions to this assignment
based on instructor feedback, however, while reflecting I found myself concerned with the
Amy D Diamond
Advanced Methods & Assessment: Learning Strategy and Content Mastery for Struggling Learners & Students with
High-Incidence Disabilities
Social Skills Assessment and Intervention
available. When I composed my plan, I assumed I would be the special education teacher either
co teaching or pushing into Bobbys general education classrooms. While I do not doubt the
effectiveness of the interventions I proposed, I do wonder about the ability to implement the plan
with fidelity.