My experience with social stories has been successful with my ASD boys. Their preschool teams introduced them both to social stories as a way to help them learn a social skill, like asking a classmate to play. Social stories can be used to teach living skills, social skills and positive behavior skills. The social story is not just for school, it can be used at home or in the community. A social story is simple wording, addresses a specific situations, provides an explanation of social information, and resulting in a postive response. A great website explaining the social stories is Ican-Autism Network.
There are some websites that provide social stories for download/printing.
Polyxo
Little Tor Elementary School
Kids Can Dream
Kansas Autism Spectrum Disorders
Autism Help
Cindys Autistic Support
One Place for Special Needs
Generally a school social worker or speech/language pathologist would be able to help in creating a social story for a ASD student. However, many have not had training or have never heard of it. We are very fortuninate to live a terrific school district that has very knowledgable staff members and has sent many staff members for training. I have found that using a social story is also benifically for NT kids too.
There are some websites that provide social stories for download/printing.
Polyxo
Little Tor Elementary School
Kids Can Dream
Kansas Autism Spectrum Disorders
Autism Help
Cindys Autistic Support
One Place for Special Needs
Generally a school social worker or speech/language pathologist would be able to help in creating a social story for a ASD student. However, many have not had training or have never heard of it. We are very fortuninate to live a terrific school district that has very knowledgable staff members and has sent many staff members for training. I have found that using a social story is also benifically for NT kids too.
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