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The purpose in the present study was to measure certain social skills of 6 mentally impaired adult subjects (M age = 37.66 years, age range = 19-57 years). A preestablished protocol was used to assess pragmatic skills. Behaviors were judged to be appropriate, inappropriate, or unobserved for a controlled social situation. Behaviors that emerged were judged to be similar to those of language-disordered children described by Prutting and Kirchner (1987), who developed the protocol employed in this study. Intelligence quotients previously obtained for the 6 participants allowed appropriate prediction of the observed behaviors that constituted the subjects’ pragmatic performance.
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Wolfolk, W.B., Fucci, D., Gelzayd, J.F. et al. Social skills measurement of the mentally impaired. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 29, 220–222 (1991). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03335240
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