Social Stories

I've decided to start my post with my own social story, for simplicity sake. I was a little cautious about how to write them at first, but I don't think they're that bad. As for the program, I wish there were more tools like being able to have a background on the text so that when there's a colorful picture, the text was easier to read. I would definitely use social stories for children with disabilities though. I think I would give them multiple formats: one in a media format, a physical book, and a story for them to memorize. That way they could utilize it at all times.

As a backtrack, social stories are works that help students (particularly students with autism) handle social situations. Cori More's article states that "Social skill intervention is most successful when the intervention is implemented using many modes of learning naturalistic settings, positive peer models, and socially valid skills." Social stories fulfill this by giving students the exact situation where the skill would take place. The stories are also told in a positive matter of what the students should do instead of focusing on what they shouldn't do. Students can carry these stories around with them when they need to refer to the information and they should also have it read fairly frequently. When writing social stories, one should consider what the students can control in the situation as well as how other people can help them. I would implement social stories in my classroom by going over some common needs in whole groups. This way students do not feel as singled out. I could also create the books and put them in the children's book boxes for them to read independently.