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•Effective for individuals with and without disabilities

•Social Stories allow an individual to learn the appropriate social behaviors that are needed for success in the classroom setting

•Studies have shown that Social Stories help increase social interactions and reduce poor behavior

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•Helps explain to children how to act in specific social situations

•Accurately describes a context, skill, achievement, or concept according to defining criteria

•Broken into understandable steps

•Describes and directs

•Individualized to student

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•Teacher should have general idea, but the student should make it.

•Important to use pictures

•Children have different abilities

•Pictures go in a box at the top or on the sides

•They can also go next to the steps

•2-3 sentences in length

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•Developed in 1990 by Carol Gray

•Originally developed to help individuals with autism handle social situations