Social stories

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I am looking for advice on Social stories for DS who’s eight and Artistic, mainly on safety, self care/ hygine and when and when not to diall the emergency services. He will only look at books and videos he wants to. I’m not sure just telling him verbally world though

Have you looked on Twinkl? Loads of great resources on there !

Could you make your own?

I know Carol Gray has lots of tips on how to do.

Carol Grey invented them, she has some books that tell you how to construct them and with examples.

Hi, I’ve made a few social story books for my ASD son (5) to discourage hitting and try to help him with toilet anxiety. I made them myself, with simple coloured in drawings. The advice I had from a SALT was to make the story from his perspective “Sometimes, going to the toilet makes me worried”, the story should feature the ‘problem’ but then give a positive outcome “Now, I’m not so scared of toilets, I know that they are ok!”. He has enjoyed looking at these and I do think they help address issues in a gentle way. They can create discussion points than feel a bit more neural because it’s through the story book and not just directed at them.