Usage of Social Stories in Encouraging Social Interaction of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Abstract

Social story is a very popular intervention and used widely as a social learning tool for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The purpose of this research was to investigate the usage of social stories in encouraging social interaction of children with ASD. The subjects for this study were 4 learners with ASD between the ages of 5 to 8 who were attending school in an inclusive setting. A single case experiment with A-B-A-B design was used for all 4 subjects. Three of the subjects showed great improvement in their ability to make friends. Improvement was also seen in their communication based on visual obeservation to the targeted behavior chart whereas 1 subject only showed very little improvement. The findings of this study suggest that the usage of social stories in improving the social interaction of children with ASD has a positive impact.

تأثیر القصص الاجتماعیة على الأطفال المصابین باضطرابات طیف التوحد فی مرحلة ما قبل المدرسةEffect of Social Stories on a Preschool Child with Autism Action Research

“…The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of using social stories to improve communication and reduce undesired behavior among children in preschool. The results are consistent with similar findings on studies that were done on autistic children that are about the same age (Adams et al, 2004;Papacek, Chai and Green, 2015;Balakrishnan and Alias, 2017;Khantreejitranon, 2018). Khantreejitranon (2018) illustrates very similar cases that involve the inability of children to share toys and behave appropriately while eating.…”

“…There are four types of sentences: descriptive, perspective, affirmative, directive, control and cooperative (Bozkurt and Vuran, 2014). There are variations in the listing of types of sentences from other researchers who only focus on four encompassing sentence structures: descriptive, perspective, directive and affirmative (Kuttler, Myles, and Carlson, 2015;Balakrishnan and Alias, 2017;Wright, 2017). According to Bozkurt and Vuran (2014) descriptive sentence provides information about social setting such as who is involved; perspective informs of the internal states of others; affirmative express commonly shared views; directive provides information on what to do in a situation; control strategies to remember the story; and cooperative which is about what others will do to support the student.…”

“…The early childhood curriculum has been customized in the education sector to meet the needs of different categories of children. Children with disabilities have been documented to require special assistance to overcome delays in attaining some social skills (Balakrishnan and Alias, 2017).…”

Effects of social stories intervention for children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders

“…The objective is to assist children with ASD in teaching socially appropriate behaviors, and reduce disruptive behaviors. [ 9 , 10 ] Due to flexibility and capacity for individualization, they tend to have high acceptance and applicability. [ 10 ]…”

“…Previous literatures suggested that SS can improve understanding and performance in social situations. [ 11 , 12 ] Other researchers had come to inconsistent conclusions, noting uncertainty about the efficacy of SS for children with ASD. [ 13 , 14 ] A number of systematic reviews have been conducted on the effect of SS intervention for children with ASD.…”