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Bryan, Tanis – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1997
A model is presented for assessing students with learning disabilities suspected of having social difficulties. Categories for assessment are described, including affective status, self-efficacy, social status, social skills, and the absence of destructive behaviors. Examples of assessment measures are provided for each category and the model's…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Interpersonal Competence, Learning Disabilities

Mishna, Faye – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2003
This article presents factors and characteristics that make children and youth with learning disabilities vulnerable to bullying. Risk factors and effects of bullying are reviewed and the following intervention strategies are highlighted: increasing community awareness and changing attitudes; social skills training; and individual, group, and…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Bullying, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education

Tomada, Giovanna; Schneider, Barry H. – Developmental Psychology, 1997
Replicated and extended American research on overt and relational aggression with Italian children. Found that peer and teacher nominations for aggression and prosocial behavior were highly stable, although with very poor concordance between them. Peer nominations for overt and relational aggression were linked to peer rejection. Boys' scores were…
Descriptors: Aggression, Bullying, Child Behavior, Children

Killen, Melanie; Crystal, David S.; Watanabe, Hirozumi – Child Development, 2002
Surveyed fourth-, seventh-, and tenth-graders in Japan and the United States regarding evaluations of peer group exclusion of atypical peers. Found that with increasing age, children demonstrated sensitivity to context (reason the peer was different) and believed that the excluded child should not change to be accepted. Girls were less willing to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Children

Kennedy, Janice H. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1990
Behavioral correlates of social status and the relative importance of physical appearance, reputation, and current behavior in the assignment of social status by peers was assessed in 2 studies of elementary school students (68 and 119 students, respectively). Videotapes and photographs were used to compare popular, rejected, and neglected…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Peer Acceptance

Dauber, Susan L.; Benbow, Camilla Persson – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1990
When 340 extremely mathematically or verbally talented 13 year olds were compared to 111 modestly gifted students, no differences were found in group activity participation or personality traits. In their ratings of peer perceptions, the modestly gifted exceeded the extremely gifted in being considered athletic and popular and in social standing.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Gifted, Junior High Schools

Perry, David G.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1988
A peer nomination scale was designed to assess the degree to which children were subjected to direct physical and verbal abuse by peers. Subjects were 165 third through sixth grade students. Children's victimization scores were uncorrelated with their aggression scores, negatively correlated with peer acceptance, and positively correlated with…
Descriptors: Aggression, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Peer Acceptance
Glazer, Susan Mandel – Teaching PreK-8, 1996
Describes one teacher's attempt to use storybooks to help her students accept a special needs student in her classroom. Notes that some children's books, however, give the message that diversity makes children different and they must be treated differently. Suggests teachers carefully assess themes in children's literature, as well as their own…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Individual Differences

Munsch, Joyce; Kinchen, Kristin M. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 1995
Describes the attempts of 247 adolescents, classified into sociometric statuses of popular, neglected, rejected, controversial, and average, to handle stressful events by mobilizing social support. Results suggest that sociometric status does not prevent attempts to mobilize support, but status may affect the amount or type of support that helpers…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Coping, Interpersonal Relationship, Peer Acceptance

Guterman, Beverly R. – Exceptional Children, 1995
This study assessed the effects of special education placement from the perspectives of nine high school students receiving learning disabilities services in separate classrooms. Students did not view their experiences as either socially or academically efficacious, but they valued the services to avoid an unresponsive general education system and…
Descriptors: High School Students, High Schools, Learning Disabilities, Mainstreaming

Peck, Charles A.; And Others – Journal of Early Intervention, 1992
This survey of 125 parents and 95 teachers of typically developing children found that respondents perceived important benefits accruing to these children because of their involvement in preschool and kindergarten classes with students with disabilities. The specific nature of benefits centered on changes in social cognition, prosocial personal…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Disabilities, Kindergarten, Mainstreaming

Borja-Alvarez, Teresita; And Others – Child Development, 1991
Second and third grade guests were observed while they tried to join peer hosts who were playing a game. Females guests were less obtrusive than male guests in their entries, and males guests were more assertive. Guests were less constrained when approaching same-sex than opposite-sex hosts. Female hosts were more attentive to guests than were…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Grade 2, Grade 3

Hemmings, Annette – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 1996
Students in two desegregated urban high schools agreed on the definition of a good student but disagreed on the acceptability of the model for blacks. Six black high achievers, within these contrasting environments (middle-class versus working-class) show how they respond to the conflict of being black and a model student. (MMU)
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Black Students, Cultural Influences, High Achievement

Hodges, Jan S.; Keller, M. Jean – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1999
A study identified the perceptions of six college students with visual impairments on what influenced their social activity on campus. It found influences were different for visually-impaired students than for traditional students. The need to intervene in the social development of students with visual impairments before college is stressed.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), College Students, Early Intervention, Higher Education

Powers, Stephen – American Annals of the Deaf, 1999
This study examined educational achievement of 747 mainstreamed deaf 16-year olds in England using data on examination results, communication competence, social acceptance, and background factors. Predictors of examination success included family socioeconomic status, presence of any additional learning difficulty, whether English was used as a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Communication Skills, Deafness, English (Second Language)