Effects of a multifaceted training procedure on the social behaviors of hearing-impaired children with severe language disabilities: a replication.

Twenty deaf children with severe language delays joined the study.

Each child got a short BST lesson: watch a demo, try the skill, hear praise or a fix.

The team tracked four social moves: greet, wait your turn, start a chat, and offer help.

After the lessons every child used all four moves more often.

The gains stuck for several weeks with no extra training.

One simple package taught real-world social skills and kept them alive.

Ledbetter-Cho et al. (2016) and Bergstrom et al. (2012) ran the same BST steps with kids with autism.

All three studies show the same pattern: demo-praise-fix equals fast, lasting gains.

Aravamudhan et al. (2020) swapped BST for prompts and shaping to fix speech sounds in older students.

That move worked too, so the larger idea—layered behavioral lessons—spans both social and speech goals.

If you serve deaf or language-delayed clients, you can lift core social skills in one short block.

Run a quick demo, let the child practice, give praise or a fix, then check again next week.

No extra gear or long hours needed—just the same BST loop you already know.