Autism Social Skills Stories are a pictorial directive used to help teach social skills to children that have autism.
Autism social skills stories provide the individual with ASD an explanation and visual framework of the skill or situation that they may find difficult or confusing.
Research shows that the Autism social skills stories are an excellent pictorial directive which can be used to help reduce stress and inappropriate behaviours in some children with an ASD.
The autism social skills story also increases social understanding and has been reported as a good approach for helping children with an ASD to reach their full potential.
The goal of a social skills story is to increase the autistic child’s understanding of skills and social situations they are struggling to master and understand. By making the child with an ASD more comfortable with and in the situation, and suggest possible responses they may receive from others.
Social skills stories follow specific sentence types: descriptive, perspective, directive and control. Introduced around twenty years ago as a means of communication Autism social skills stories have grown into a very popular pictorial instruction strategy that can be used with all autistic individuals regardless of age and ability.
Generally autistic social skills stories are written by experts, teachers and parents to help teach social and communication skills to autistic individuals. Autism social skills stories can be edited to suit all needs, personalized, printed and are portable making them convenient and easy to use.
A social skills story can be introduced to help deal with any situation or skill that the autistic child needs help with. No formal training is needed to use social skills stories, site which offer support and expertly written Autism social skills stories can be found using search engines such as Google.
Sites offering Autism social skills stories for children that have autism like http://www.autismsocialstories.com offer support and downloads of autistic social skills stories for various situations and skills for a small fee.
A social skills story should be visual and use first person text, like a role model the social skills story will help with transitions, and changes to routines as well as teach and support social skills and communication difficulties.
For more information on this visual teaching strategy visit any of the following sites and find Autism social skills stories for children with autism
http://www.autismsocialstories.com/social_skills
http://www.autismsocialstories.com
http://www.autismsocialstories.com/school
