What is the theory behind it?

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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What is the theory behind it?

Difficulty with reciprocal social interaction is one of the main characteristics of autism. This impairment might result from unusual activity or functioning of certain areas of the brain that are used for social skills (6).

Social stories were developed to help improve social interactions in children with autism by giving simple and clear descriptions of social cues and appropriate behaviors (1). However, it is not clear why social stories work for children with autism, when picking up social cues from the everyday environment does not. Some researchers believe that individuals with autism have trouble understanding what others believe, know, or don't know. This difficulty is sometimes called the theory of mind deficit in autism. (7).

There are several ways that social stories may help improve a child's theory of mind. One is that, by giving examples of specific social cues and behaviors, social stories may improve social problem-solving in general (1). Social stories may also help organize social ides and cues that were previously disorganized (5). Moreover, by using print, audio, video, or pictures to replace in-person teaching, social stories may take away some of the anxiety of social relationships (8). In this way, autistic children can concentrate on what is being said rather than their relationship with the person who is saying it.

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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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