To all those who told me social stories worked better with pictures....

[aloha]

Thank you! And at my being so resistant to the idea.
You were, of course, right!

(see my other thread for reasons why)

It's incredible the difference they make, isn't it Aloha, even with very literate children.

I'm so pleased you've had some success.

I was told by the NAS that we should also write 'achievement' social stories - in fact at least 50% of them should be about positives. It can give our kids a great boost to their self-esteem to look back on their successful days. Why not write one about DD's assembly while it's still fresh in her/your mind? You'd just have to adapt the one you wrote before the event, then she can look back on it every time she has something similar and see that she DID it and can do it again.

Keep up the good work!

Visual visual visual is the say to go with all ASD type issues (and even for other kids tbh.)

You now need Widgit Writing with Symbols so that you can add appropriate pictures to text.It is a Godsend. Will link...

Inclusive technology are a fantastic company but phone and ask for a catalogue,easier to browse

They sell the Writing with symbols package

I work with lots of kids in the way you describe on the other thread Aloha. Incredibly effective.

God,what a disgrace eh that parents are having to show supposedly trained people what to do.
Hope they are suitably chastened.

that's really interesting aloha, as your DS is soooo good with language.

Sorry to hijack.

How have you all learned to write social stories?
DS just got AS DX and I think I need to learn about them.

I highly recommend the NAS Help 2 seminar, which uses an approach based on Carol Gray's original idea but is far simpler. Contact the NAS for a list of dates in your area.

I've bought some software from do2learn.com, but haven't downloaded it yet.

The success story is a good one.

Had another crap day with school today.
Hysterical sounding receptionist in school office calls, and says very rudely and curtly, 'You have to come to the school to get ds. He is being very badly behaved. We can't tolerate this behaviour'. I was so pissed off. I was just leaving for a work appointment, so dh had to go, but I said, 'Do you know he is DISABLED? Will you please stop using these negative terms. I think you should calm down and we will come and collect him'
FFS he's a five year old who accidentally broke something in class by 'shaking it as if it was in a thunderstorm' (they didn't ask what he was doing and assumed he was being deliberately destructive ) and then running about in the corridors. Yes, annoying I'm sure, but it's hardly the fricking Columbine Massacre.
I don't know how they handled it, but am sure it was mishandled.

Been away for a few days.
Thanks for the replies. Hijack over now.
Aloha how awful for you, it sounds like mishandling to me.