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Research summaries for autism therapy: social stories

definition of social stories: Short stories that describe a social situation, including social cues and appropriate behavior. Social stories are used to teach social skills through the use of accurate information about those situations that the child may find difficult or confusing. Effective social stories use several types of sentences. For example, an affirmative sentence type is one that gives the point of view of the people involved in the situation or the general culture. The other sentence types are control sentences, cooperative sentences, directive sentences, perspective sentences, and descriptive sentences.

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Evidence-Based Social Skills Interventions for Children with Autism: A Meta-Analysis, Summarized Jan 15, 2010

Video modeling may be the most useful of all social skills therapies for children with autism.

The authors reviewed the results of 38 studies that measured how well social skills therapies worked on autism symptoms. The authors looked at the results of the studies and compared the results to see which type of social skill therapy worked best in children with autism and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The authors said that the data from the studies best support the use of Social Stories, peer-mediated social skills therapy, and video modeling. Use of these three techniques can be thought of as “evidence-based.” Use of video modeling gave the best results in many studies.

The Role of Family-Centered Care in Research: Supporting the Social Communication of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Summarized Sep 2, 2009

Family-centered care programs may help guide research for children with autism.... For example, researchers for a social stories study asked parents about their children's needs before designing the therapy research plan. They also asked parents to keep diaries during the research study to gather more information about how well the children did at home.... Read more...

Behavioural Family Intervention with Parents of Children with ASD: What Do They Find Useful in the Parenting Program Stepping Stones Triple P?, Summarized Aug 6, 2009

The parenting program "Stepping Stones Triple P" may teach helpful strategies to parents of children with autism.

Parents of 29 children (2-9 years old) with autism received training using the Stepping Stones Triple P program. Parents learned how to deal with behavioral issues for children with autism. Strategies included timeout, physical guidance, and blocking. Many of the parents also learned how to use Comic Strip Conversations and Social Stories. Most of the parents liked the parent training, and said the strategies they learned were helpful when dealing with their children with autism. Read more...

The Use of Social Stories by Teachers and their Perceived Efficacy, Summarized Mar 26, 2009

Many teachers use Social Stories and consider them to be a good way of teaching certain behaviors to children with autism.

This study looked at how teachers use Social Stories in school. The study used a survey of teachers working with children with autism. The surveyed teachers relied on Social Stories for children with a range of ages and a range of IQs. Teachers used Social Stories for many reasons and the authors suggest that this is because the Social Stories are easy to construct and use. The Social Stories used by teachers did not conform to the published Social Story guidelines. Read more...

Synonyms for social stories include: affirmative sentence, affirmative sentences, control sentence, control sentences, cooperative sentence, cooperative sentences, descriptive sentence, descriptive sentences, directive sentence, directive sentences, perspective sentence, perspective sentences, social story, social story therapy, story scripts

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