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Social Skills Improvement System

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Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders

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Prosocial behaviors; Prosocial skills

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The Social Skills Improvement System (SSiS; Gresham & Elliott, 2008) Rating Scales assist professionals in screening and classifying students ages 3–18 years suspected of having significant social skills deficits. The SSiS Classwide Intervention Program and SSiS Intervention Guide are manualized treatment programs for eliminating or reducing social skill deficits identified on the SSiS Rating Scales. The SSiS uses a multirater (parents, teachers, and students with at least third-grade reading ability) approach that provides a comprehensive examination of seven areas of prosocial skills (communication, cooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy, engagement, and self-control) and five areas of problem behaviors (internalizing, externalizing, bullying, hyperactivity/inattention, and autism spectrum). The instrument yields norm-referenced scores based on a national sample representative of the 2006 US Census.

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  • Elliott, S. N., & Gresham, F. M. (2007). Social skills improvement system: Performance screening guides. Bloomington, MN: Pearson Assessments.

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  • Elliott, S. N., & Gresham, F. M. (2008). The SSIS ASSIST: Scoring, interpretation, and report writing program. Bloomington, MN: Pearson Assessments.

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  • The SSiS is published by Pearson Clinical Assessments. 19500 Bulverde Road, San Antonio, TX 78359. www.PsychCorp.com

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Learning Sciences Institute, Arizona State University, PO Box 872111, Tempe, AZ, 37203-5721, USA

    Prof. Stephen N. Elliott (Director)

  2. Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA

    Prof. Frank M. Gresham

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  1. Prof. Stephen N. Elliott
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Correspondence to Stephen N. Elliott .

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  1. Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Psychology Yale University School of Medicine, Chief, Child Psychiatry Children's Hospital at Yale-New Haven Child Study Center, New Haven, CT, USA

    Fred R. Volkmar (Director, Child Study Center) (Director, Child Study Center)

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Elliott, S.N., Gresham, F.M. (2013). Social Skills Improvement System. In: Volkmar, F.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1698-3_509

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