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Social Stories for Challenging Behaviors

Greetings! Using social stories to explain challenging behaviors is another great way to help individuals with autism, communicative disorders, mental retardation as well as a gamete of other disabilities. When an individual gets angry, hits, kicks or tantrums.. what do you do? Many times we find ourselves in these situations. Most times the behavior occurs because they don't know how to express what they are feeling, needing or wanting. Using social stories to give them the appropriate strategies for coping with situations is a great way to help them reduce the stress and frustration they may be feeling or to empower them to make the appropriate choices to get what they want without engaging in the behavior.

Check out some of our social stories we offer below. For more information on Social Stories, visit our blog.

I Can Keep My Hands to Myself We should all know that when we are with other people we should need to keep your hands to ourselves. If we want to touch someone we need to ask permission. A person with special needs has a hard time understanding this concept. When they are upset they will reach over and hit, scratch or kick someone instead of using their words and expressing their needs more appropriately. Expressing these concepts in every avenue is very important so that the person can generalize what they learn throughout their life. Using visual cues such as social stories helps brings this to a concrete concept that the special needs individual can understand. It's a great tool for teaching special needs individuals to keep their hands to themselves and not violate others personal space.

Asking Other Kids to Play Learning appropriate ways to play with others is another area that people with special needs struggle with. What can you do when the other child says "no" and how do you accept when someone doesn't want to play with you. This is a great one that I used by my 14 year old autistic son who would get upset every time he couldn't get anyone to play with him or play what he wanted to play. It really worked. Understanding that not everyone wants to play the same thing as you and how to find a middle ground to playing with another child is a strategy that gets lost with our special needs person. Social stories are get ways to provide visual cues to explain more appropriate ways of interacting with others.

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