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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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Cost

Social stories may be included as a component of speech therapy. The cost of speech therapy is covered by the government through the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004. Private speech therapy can be expensive (approximately $100/hour or more). Parents, teachers, counselors, and caretakers can also learn how to use social stories (2).

Books, audiotapes, and videotapes of several commonly used social stories for children with autism are available at a fairly low cost (see Resources).

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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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