60 Seconds on Down Syndrome (Social Stories)

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From Ideal Lives:

KathyR

Have you tried using Social Stories to help your child conquer

those pesky social situations that seem to trip us all up?

Here is a little Trouble Shooting Checklist to use when you are

gathering information to create a Social Story for your child.

1. Describe target behavior (how they are responding now)

2. Function of Inappropriate Behavior (what are they getting out

of it, i.e. attention, avoiding something they don't like)

3. What strengths does your child have that could help in this

situation (i.e. they aren't shy)

4. What weaknesses are causing them problems in this situation

(i.e. don't realize when someone else is bored)

5. Areas of Special Interest (really like sports car)

6. Additional Information that is important:

So let's put it all together:

For example: Your child getting sent to the office for yelling in

the halls at school (#1) because they really want friends and peer

attention (#2). To seek out this attention they strike up

conversations in the hallway with classmates (#3), unfortunately

they don't realize when they have picked an inappropriate

conversation topic or the classmate is getting bored (#4) so when

the classmate blows them off and walks away or says something mean

to them, they respond by getting upset and yelling.

So your social story needs to help your learn specific skills:

What topics typical kids his age might want to talk about

(especially those where there is a shared interest like cars) (#5)

Acceptable ways to strike up a conversation

Social cues that the other person is done talking

How to move on gracefully (when things go well AND when they don't)

By doing practise conversations through the social story, your

child gains both skills and confidence is his ability.

For more info on social stories, check out

http://clicks.aweber.com/z/ct/?o3QqQTZNp0984UiRg3bG0g

To see some brief sample stories, visit

http://clicks.aweber.com/z/ct/?p7ZKh3zlUXGi_x7SQ8V8Aw

To create custom stories for younger children online, try Sand-Box

Learning

http://clicks.aweber.com/z/ct/?uIWxxXsUXDwjay55DvKcVg

All my best,

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