Social Stories

What is This Resource? Social Stories are used as a tool for teaching social skills to children with autism and other exceptionalities. Social stories provide accurate information about a situation that an individual may struggle with in a social situation or may find confusing.  Social Stories are relatively short and straightforward descriptions of the desired social situation. There will be specific instructions or details on how the event is supposed to go. The social stories are typically customized for specific students that are looking to work on specific social situations by following the social cues outlined in the social story.  These stories must include a who (student), what (social situation), when (does this situation take place), why (brief explanation on the reasoning why we are doing something a certain way) and how (outlined instructions to help guide the student through.  There should be four types of sentences in social stories including Descriptive se...