“…Identification of and intervention with children who experience problems in initiating and maintaining satisfying relationships with peers have received increasing interest within the school psychological community. For example, an entire issue of the School Psychology Review was devoted to social competence (Carroll & Elliott, 1984), and there have been numerous empirical and conceptual articles in the school psychology literature concerning social competence/social skills (Cartledge & Milburn, 1983; French & Waas, 1987; Gresham, Elliott, & Black, 1987a, 1987b; Gresham & Reschly, 1987, 1988; Hughes, 1986; Kratochwill & French, 1984; Stinnett, Oehler-Stinnett, & Stout, 1989). In addition, the Interagency Committee on Learning Disabilities (1987) has proposed that social skills deficits be included in a revised definition of learning disabilities (see Gresham & Elliott, 1989).…”