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This paper aims to identify the effectiveness of a training program to improve social skills and reduce the challenging behavior in adolescents with intellectual disabilities. The research involved two groups of adolescents with intellectual disability, each contained ten adolescents between the ages of (14-18 years), with an IQ range of (50 - 70). One of these two groups was exposed to a training program for (10) weeks and the other was a control group not subjected to any experimental procedures. Stanford-Binet intelligence scale (fifth version) was used, translated by Safwat Faraj, the behavior problems inventory (translated and standardized by the researcher), and social skills scale, (prepared by the researcher), along with the training program (prepared by the researcher) applied to the members of the experimental group. The results suggest that the training program is useful with adolescents with these kinds of disabilities, as the results of the research showed the effectiveness of the program used to improve the social skills and reduce challenge behavior in adolescents with intellectual disability. (Published abstract)