PROMOTING SOCIAL COMPETENCE IN EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN THROUGH PERSPECTIVE TAKING AND SOCIODRAMATIC ACTIVITIES
SOCIAL COMPETENCE
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SOCIODRAMATIC ACTIVITIESAbstract
Although exceptional children may differ widely from each other in terms of etiology and severity of handicaps, they often share the common characteristic of deficient social competence. Evidence for current interest in the social competence of exceptional children is reflected by a substantial growth of attention devoted to this topic in the professional literature.
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