LEARNING TO WRITE SOCIAL STORIES

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LEARNING TO WRITE SOCIAL STORIES
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SOCIAL STORIES
Who Can Use Social Stories

• Students within the Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Students of all ages and functioning levels
• Educators, parents, any caregiver, service
  provider

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SOCIAL STORIES
What a Social Story Accomplishes

• Provides a product for teaching
• Allows others to see things from students
  perspectives
• Provides rote practice

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SOCIAL STORIES
What a Social Story Accomplishes

• Describes a situation, skill or concept
• Focuses story on individual student
• Translates behavior into meaningful activity

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SOCIAL STORIES
When to Use Social Stories

• To acknowledge positive behaviors or skills and
  efforts
• To encourage generalization of behaviors in other
  settings
• To explain situations that are difficult for a
  student

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SOCIAL STORIES
When to Use Social Stories

• To explain situations the student misinterpreted
• To prepare or pre-teach

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SOCIAL STORIES
Where to Use Social Stories

• Throughout the school environment
• With any school related activity
• Within the community
• Settings that encompass the students needs

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SOCIAL STORIES
How to Write Social Stories

• Use descriptive sentences in all stories
• backbone of story
• Use perspective sentences
• heart of story
• Use directive sentences
• I get it of story

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SOCIAL STORIES
How to Write Social Stories

• Use affirmative sentences
• its OK of story
• Use control sentences
• its OK to change of story
• Use cooperative sentences
• theres more than one of story
• Use appropriate ratio of sentences

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SOCIAL STORIES
Why to Use Social Stories

• To improve social understanding
• To increase independence
• To provide a positive backdrop to varying
  situations

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SOCIAL STORIES
Why to Use Social Stories

• To serve as a vehicle for learning across
  environments
• To provide concrete, easy to understand
  information

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REFERENCES

• Writing Social Stories with Carol Gray, Carol
  Gray, 2000, Future Horizons
• The New Social Story Book, Carol Gray, 2000,
  Future Horizons
• Autism and PDD Social Skills Lessons Home,
  School, Community, Getting Along, Behavior Reese
  Challenner, 1999, LinguiSystems