TEACHING LEISURE SKILLS TO ADOLESCENTS WITH MODERATE DISABILITIES

Four leisure skills (i.e., playing cards, selecting a television progr am, playing a sports videotape and playing a computer game) were taugh t to four secondary students with moderate disabilities in a collabora tive project developed by a university investigator, a special educati on teacher, and an English teacher The special education teacher rued a system of least prompts procedure to teach the targeted skills, and nondisabled peers from an advanced English class assessed generalizati on across persons on an intermittent schedule. The results indicate th at the collaborative project had benefits to both groups of students t hat included an increase in positive attitudes of the nondisabled peer s toward their peers with disabilities.