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Episode 05: ABA Insights on the Benefits of Social Stories | FREE ABA CEU — Transcript

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  1. 0:00ultimate goal is to work myself out of a
  2. 0:02job like my I my thought is that I'm not
  3. 0:05always going to be in this learner's
  4. 0:06life so I want always write these social
  5. 0:08stories for them something that works
  6. 0:10for them yes exactly so I'm not always
  7. 0:12going to be there to write the social
  8. 0:13story for them so I try and teach
  9. 0:16parents like how I write social stories
  10. 0:19so I will help with them like learning
  11. 0:22how to use canva or PowerPoint cuz when
  12. 0:24you make social stories yes canva is a
  13. 0:25great tool that's what I love to use but
  14. 0:27you can use PowerPoint you can use like
  15. 0:29pictures and just write them yourself so
  16. 0:31I try and like promote ways that they
  17. 0:33can write them at home right and help
  18. 0:35generalize them I also will show
  19. 0:37families like on YouTube like I know
  20. 0:39that it's not the most individualized
  21. 0:41social story but on YouTube you can find
  22. 0:44like different topics whether that be
  23. 0:45like coping strategies or like doing a
  24. 0:48challenging task like going to the
  25. 0:50dentist or potty training like you can
  26. 0:53find some basic social story
  27. 1:00hey everyone welcome back to the
  28. 1:01blossoming together podcast today we're
  29. 1:03going to be talking about social stories
  30. 1:06all right so let's get right into our
  31. 1:08objectives the first objective is
  32. 1:10addressing barriers to effective social
  33. 1:12stories our second objective is evaluate
  34. 1:15digital social Story tools all right and
  35. 1:18make sure you're listening for our code
  36. 1:20words throughout the podcast today
  37. 1:23awesome all right usra so can you share
  38. 1:26your personal experience with using
  39. 1:28social stories in general so I feel like
  40. 1:31I've had like like I've WR written a few
  41. 1:34social stories I feel like no matter how
  42. 1:37many times you write them it feels a
  43. 1:38little like nerve-wracking each time
  44. 1:41it's mostly because you know they're
  45. 1:42supposed to be tailored to the client
  46. 1:43and like experience so I feel like
  47. 1:46you're never writing the same one over
  48. 1:48and over again versus like a lot of our
  49. 1:50programs we've written the same ones a
  50. 1:52few times versus a social story I feel
  51. 1:55like I've it's different for each kid
  52. 1:57each situation is like unique different
  53. 1:58you know even going to the den
  54. 2:00like I could write the same story three
  55. 2:02or four different times and each time
  56. 2:05it's going to look a little different
  57. 2:06right like the dentist office is going
  58. 2:08to look different for various kids or
  59. 2:10yeah or what what issues they have like
  60. 2:12what barriers they have at like the
  61. 2:14dentist office looks a little different
  62. 2:15for each kid so I feel like every time I
  63. 2:18write one it takes me way longer than it
  64. 2:20should I feel like it really triggers
  65. 2:22like our creative brain which I don't
  66. 2:24know I'm not that creative some days I
  67. 2:26can't find it no and I'll sit there and
  68. 2:28be like and I'll start looking for
  69. 2:29pictures and then I'll get a little
  70. 2:31Sidetrack yeah but that's my experience
  71. 2:34do you feel like you have like a good
  72. 2:35experience writing social stories yeah I
  73. 2:37feel like I've written a lot of social
  74. 2:39stories um like individualizing them I A
  75. 2:42lot of times will use like canva and try
  76. 2:44and like use pictures of the kids or
  77. 2:46like trying to um take like what coping
  78. 2:49strategies and stuff that they're
  79. 2:50working on like within our sessions and
  80. 2:52Implement them into the stories um but
  81. 2:55sometimes it's really hard or it's like
  82. 2:56I want to wait until the child has like
  83. 2:58mastered some skills before putting them
  84. 3:00into the social story but I'm like wait
  85. 3:02shouldn't I start the social story now
  86. 3:03and like we're kind of when to I I like
  87. 3:06the idea of doing them alongside each
  88. 3:08other yeah it's the most beneficial
  89. 3:11because then you can Target like say
  90. 3:13like your goal is for the child to
  91. 3:15imitate A coping strategy like taking a
  92. 3:17deep breath or counting to 10 you can
  93. 3:19use reading the story as the learning
  94. 3:21opportunity rather than a contrived
  95. 3:23opportunity and I always feel like you
  96. 3:24can pull it out and use it as a prompt
  97. 3:26too like here here these are coping
  98. 3:28strategies let's look in our book
  99. 3:30yeah that's great I love
  100. 3:32that um so I mean I guess we talked
  101. 3:35about our experience with it can you
  102. 3:36describe a little bit exactly what a
  103. 3:37social story is supposed to be used for
  104. 3:39so a social story is an individualized
  105. 3:41story that describes a spe specific
  106. 3:44social situation and circumstances does
  107. 3:47that make sense I forgetting anything
  108. 3:48you feel like I don't think so um
  109. 3:50individualized to like what is needed
  110. 3:52for the learner but you hit that and it
  111. 3:54looks different I feel like a lot of BCB
  112. 3:56now they'll use like canva PowerPoint
  113. 3:59like old school people are like drawing
  114. 4:02pictures for their clients right yeah or
  115. 4:05like even I found that a lot of um
  116. 4:08clinicians were having to just like they
  117. 4:10didn't have the time to get individual
  118. 4:11or creative with the social story so
  119. 4:13they just print one that already existed
  120. 4:15right um which is like use our resources
  121. 4:17but but that sucks too cuz it's not
  122. 4:20individualized yes like some of the best
  123. 4:22social stories should incorporate like
  124. 4:24that child themselves like even like a
  125. 4:26picture of them or their preferences or
  126. 4:28their interests like having something
  127. 4:30they find interesting in the social
  128. 4:32Story one of my supervisors had like
  129. 4:34given me a tip like if you have a client
  130. 4:36like a lot of our clients love numbers
  131. 4:38and letters like having those just in
  132. 4:40the corner for like the pages like
  133. 4:42something interesting for them to look
  134. 4:44it's like the decoration of the page
  135. 4:46looks good and that'll we'll talk about
  136. 4:48a little bit more later but like some of
  137. 4:49those prerequisite skills that increases
  138. 4:51the attending of the book If like a
  139. 4:52child's not interested in them they're
  140. 4:54not going to like look towards it and
  141. 4:56things like that I can see that so what
  142. 4:59are the best benefits of using a social
  143. 5:00story um you know social stories have
  144. 5:03are used to like increase communication
  145. 5:05skills they're a good modeling tool um
  146. 5:08you know they're very like we've talked
  147. 5:10about probably three times already it's
  148. 5:11like customizable and
  149. 5:13individualization um and they're really
  150. 5:15good at promoting generalization right
  151. 5:17because you can um work on something at
  152. 5:19the center so many times but if it's in
  153. 5:21a story you can like talk about it in
  154. 5:23different settings and take that story
  155. 5:24to like a different setting as well and
  156. 5:27you would have the same Lang like I feel
  157. 5:28like I love it is all also helps the
  158. 5:31families keep that consistent language
  159. 5:33if we've practiced something and we've
  160. 5:34used that verbage we can put it in the
  161. 5:36social story for the family to go home
  162. 5:38and take with them I agree like that I
  163. 5:40think that's a really good benefit too
  164. 5:42um when you're thinking about a social
  165. 5:44story like an ideal social story you're
  166. 5:46going to make what are the key
  167. 5:47components you're looking for so that
  168. 5:49the Lang that the language be that what
  169. 5:52the child can understand so not writing
  170. 5:55it like don't write a novel for like a
  171. 5:58two or threey there's no paragraphs
  172. 5:59there's no paragraphs that's like keep
  173. 6:01the language very simple write it in the
  174. 6:03perspective of the learner or the child
  175. 6:06so we don't need to be like Johnny like
  176. 6:09if your client's name is like Kenny
  177. 6:10don't be writing a story about Johnny
  178. 6:13yeah exactly oh I like that so
  179. 6:14individualizing it to the perspective of
  180. 6:16the child when I'm thinking of that I
  181. 6:18like to look um you can do it either in
  182. 6:20like first or third person so it can
  183. 6:22either be in the perspective of like I
  184. 6:24use I take a deep breath or it can be in
  185. 6:27like your learner is Johnny Johnny takes
  186. 6:29a deep breath um and I like like
  187. 6:31altering the perspective depending on
  188. 6:32like what's going to benefit the client
  189. 6:34I like that too and one other thing is
  190. 6:36using visual supports within your story
  191. 6:38so if you're writing like you're using a
  192. 6:40story that you've like made in canva or
  193. 6:42PowerPoint making sure you have pictures
  194. 6:45that are fun that associate with the the
  195. 6:48story you know and you know like
  196. 6:50thinking about if you're using clip art
  197. 6:52pictures like does it kind of match like
  198. 6:53the child's this is something that's
  199. 6:56really hard like it culturally
  200. 6:58culturally you know I was writing a
  201. 7:00social story for one of my clients like
  202. 7:02literally 3 weeks ago and he is
  203. 7:04African-American and like looking for
  204. 7:07pictures that to like use resemble that
  205. 7:09child was so difficult I kept finding
  206. 7:12little like blonde kids or like little
  207. 7:14like you know white kids kids but I
  208. 7:17could not find like a boy that looked I
  209. 7:19found one picture and it was just like
  210. 7:21it didn't have anything to do with the
  211. 7:22story it's so frustrating it's
  212. 7:25discouraging it's discouraging and it's
  213. 7:26like I'm not that good at like using
  214. 7:29you're like going to create your own
  215. 7:30clip art my own clip art but like and
  216. 7:33like try then you would have to pay for
  217. 7:34it like I found something where I'd have
  218. 7:36to pay like $10 $20 to get more people
  219. 7:39which is sad like come on let's just
  220. 7:40broaden the demographic yeah like it
  221. 7:42should be easier to find some clip art
  222. 7:44pictures that represents everyone I
  223. 7:46found like sometimes when I run into
  224. 7:48those challenges I um like I'll take a
  225. 7:50picture of the client themselves and put
  226. 7:52them into the book because that's not
  227. 7:55fair for them to like be reading a story
  228. 7:56that's not going to relate to themselves
  229. 7:57and I feel uh I don't have like the stat
  230. 8:00on me or like but like one of the things
  231. 8:04that you should be looking for for like
  232. 8:05IM like the mo like sorry that's okay is
  233. 8:09that the like the photo should represent
  234. 8:12like the client for like when you're
  235. 8:13doing like modeling modeling skills it
  236. 8:16should be like closest like close in age
  237. 8:18to the client resemble like the features
  238. 8:21of the client St of that sort I think
  239. 8:23that's honestly like it should be the
  240. 8:26standard is it should be able like we
  241. 8:28should be able to do that easily awesome
  242. 8:30all right so what is your typical idea
  243. 8:33of a social is your typ is your typical
  244. 8:36idea of a social story a book with
  245. 8:38pictures or you using something else I
  246. 8:40think you know what actually before we
  247. 8:42get into that I want to give our first
  248. 8:44code word for our cus just so I don't
  249. 8:46forget so code word number one is going
  250. 8:49to be moving m o v i n g moving all
  251. 8:53right so let's get into the next part is
  252. 8:56the barriers to social stories yes
  253. 9:00so there are a lot of barriers when
  254. 9:02implementing a social story so like
  255. 9:04social stories are great for some
  256. 9:06Learners and we should really really use
  257. 9:08them but I find that barriers is like
  258. 9:11one does the child that you want to
  259. 9:13write a Social story for have the
  260. 9:15ability to attend to a book for up to
  261. 9:19five minutes that's a hard one if we
  262. 9:21don't have that skill we need to work on
  263. 9:22that skill first like let's increase
  264. 9:24attending prior to introducing it
  265. 9:25because we don't want to spend like we
  266. 9:27said this is a resourceful time like
  267. 9:29activity it takes a lot of our time to
  268. 9:31make a social story so we don't want to
  269. 9:33be working on this if they don't have
  270. 9:34the skills to like attend to it right um
  271. 9:38something else is I want them to be able
  272. 9:40to follow simple instructions because a
  273. 9:42lot of times the social story is going
  274. 9:43to have like basic instructions in there
  275. 9:45what to do when you're in that situation
  276. 9:47right yeah exactly or even like just
  277. 9:49getting them to come sit for the like
  278. 9:50they should be able to like say come
  279. 9:52here let's sit um and follow
  280. 9:54instructions that leads to that
  281. 9:55attending um and I want them to have an
  282. 9:58a general interest in books like if this
  283. 10:01child if your learner hates books maybe
  284. 10:04a social story isn't the best for them
  285. 10:06right so if a social story like a book
  286. 10:10written social story isn't like the best
  287. 10:12tool for them what can we do yeah I so I
  288. 10:15think when we typically think of social
  289. 10:16stories we're thinking of these um like
  290. 10:19little pamphlets with like words and
  291. 10:22pictures paired along them but there are
  292. 10:24other ways that we can model social
  293. 10:26stories right so one way I really love
  294. 10:29video modeling have you used it in the
  295. 10:31past so I haven't necessarily used it
  296. 10:34for any clients per se but it was like
  297. 10:37one of my last projects before I became
  298. 10:39bcba and one of the barriers was it was
  299. 10:42hard to go and make like these videos
  300. 10:45and you know what we tried to do is
  301. 10:47instead of adults being the models we
  302. 10:49wanted other children to be the models
  303. 10:52and you know if I could do it again I
  304. 10:53probably would have had like a younger
  305. 10:55sibling that could follow my
  306. 10:58instructions my models but I don't know
  307. 11:01I thought maybe like clients in the
  308. 11:02center I was going to say yeah so you
  309. 11:04using clients in the center as your
  310. 11:05models I mean some of them could model
  311. 11:07were but then like getting consent forms
  312. 11:09and all that was really hard I feel like
  313. 11:11I should do it we need to do it again
  314. 11:14maybe find some like models that are
  315. 11:16easy to like that can follow
  316. 11:18instructions the parents approve that
  317. 11:21make videos for that would make it a lot
  318. 11:23easier right so like with these video
  319. 11:24modeling there's like different formats
  320. 11:26of them so like a um you could have like
  321. 11:28simp video models where it's just like a
  322. 11:32couple like two three actions and two
  323. 11:34three sentences and just a very short
  324. 11:36video model or you can have like the
  325. 11:38whole story is like acted out like in
  326. 11:41scenarios but those are tricky to find
  327. 11:43like those resources don't totally exist
  328. 11:45yet and there I went on YouTube and like
  329. 11:48before we like started searching this
  330. 11:49and I just wrote social stories for like
  331. 11:51going to the dentist and what was kind
  332. 11:53of in like I didn't see any video models
  333. 11:55but I saw a lot of like social stories
  334. 11:57just being read aloud so wonder if a lot
  335. 11:59of like the resources just look like
  336. 12:01that right I think they do so it's like
  337. 12:04it's the same one that we're thinking of
  338. 12:07but just in a video form which is
  339. 12:09beneficial um in a sense like because it
  340. 12:12makes it more accessible to families but
  341. 12:14it's like we're not getting to that like
  342. 12:15video model no some things that I've
  343. 12:18done in the past is if a child has like
  344. 12:20some skills that we're working on at the
  345. 12:22center and they're mastering them I
  346. 12:23don't know if you've ran into this your
  347. 12:24child is mastering skills at the center
  348. 12:26but then they like the parents like oh
  349. 12:28my gosh they will not do at home like
  350. 12:30they are really struggling I'll use the
  351. 12:32learner themselves to create their
  352. 12:34social story um it has to be a learner
  353. 12:37who has these um like learning they're
  354. 12:40at that stage of learning where they can
  355. 12:41like follow those instructions and kind
  356. 12:43of like model it out for you but some
  357. 12:45I've had a learner who like they really
  358. 12:46loved like taking pictures of themselves
  359. 12:49and watching videos so we would like
  360. 12:51take videos of them completing like the
  361. 12:53tasks at the center and then they would
  362. 12:56show them that at home and they were
  363. 12:58able to like replicate that as their
  364. 12:59video model or their video social story
  365. 13:01it's amazing and I love that idea I feel
  366. 13:03like I've never thought of it I'm
  367. 13:05definitely going to use it going forward
  368. 13:06I hope so um so when you're like working
  369. 13:10on social stories what do you typically
  370. 13:11think of I feel like I typically think
  371. 13:14of like you know the written books okay
  372. 13:16you know and like I've always feel like
  373. 13:18I some things I've started doing is like
  374. 13:20for games and stuff specific I've been
  375. 13:22youtubing like the game like I wanted to
  376. 13:24teach like one of my clients to play Red
  377. 13:26Rover so I just youtubed Red Rover found
  378. 13:29like young kids just like act like
  379. 13:31telling the rules and acting out the
  380. 13:33games with them themselves so that's
  381. 13:35what I'm thinking of when I like think
  382. 13:36of video social yeah see I like to shift
  383. 13:39sometimes like I think video social
  384. 13:41stories are really great but I think
  385. 13:44that what I enjoy more is just like that
  386. 13:46video model as a learning tool more than
  387. 13:49the social story itself because when you
  388. 13:51think of videos a lot of our Learners
  389. 13:54love their tablets they love YouTube so
  390. 13:56it's something that they are generally
  391. 13:57already interested in so getting them to
  392. 14:00like look at the screen is much easier
  393. 14:01so I use like a video model it doesn't
  394. 14:03necessarily have to be um like a written
  395. 14:07out story story and I think that's where
  396. 14:08it gets a little confused because when
  397. 14:10we think of social stories we're like oh
  398. 14:11well we need to use that like same ver
  399. 14:13like that language and put it in the
  400. 14:14story versus like with the video model
  401. 14:16it just could be like the scenario acted
  402. 14:18out yeah exactly and I think there are
  403. 14:20benefits to both and it's that's why our
  404. 14:22treatment and ABA like we want so
  405. 14:23individualized so individualized we
  406. 14:25really want to focus on that so like we
  407. 14:27can some Learners might benefit best
  408. 14:29from a written out social story but
  409. 14:30other Learners might need a video model
  410. 14:32instead and I think about how many time
  411. 14:35I don't know how many times you've been
  412. 14:36at the center and you've written like a
  413. 14:37social like a written social story and
  414. 14:38how many times it gets lost yeah oh my
  415. 14:41gosh where like I have coverage
  416. 14:42technicians and they like misplace it
  417. 14:44and then the next day they come in
  418. 14:45they're like well has anyone seen it
  419. 14:47then getting it printed and laminated
  420. 14:49again is hard oh my gosh the material
  421. 14:51the loss of materials is one of my
  422. 14:53biggest big barrier it's a barrier to me
  423. 14:56it's a barrier to the family it's a
  424. 14:57barrier to the technician yeah and it's
  425. 14:59even harder I feel like when I send a
  426. 15:00social story home oh my gosh yeah like
  427. 15:02the dog ate it siing in backpack and
  428. 15:06it's like I so I feel like when you have
  429. 15:08it on your phone or on your tablet you
  430. 15:10can use it anywhere and like you're not
  431. 15:13losing it the chances of you losing it
  432. 15:15are very slim unless it gets deleted
  433. 15:17then deleted again and it's like but
  434. 15:18you'll always have a backup which and
  435. 15:21it's easy to send you don't have to
  436. 15:22laminate it you don't have to print it
  437. 15:23out he like okay you lost it here let me
  438. 15:25just email it to you again yeah no I do
  439. 15:27like having um like the video model on
  440. 15:29the phone and then even like that social
  441. 15:30story like that's the benefit of the day
  442. 15:33and age we're living in is we have
  443. 15:34technology so let's utilize it to our
  444. 15:36advantage all these tools that are here
  445. 15:38to our benefit while we were doing some
  446. 15:40of the research right like uh like I was
  447. 15:43like what resources are there for like
  448. 15:46families and one interesting thing I was
  449. 15:48like was that
  450. 15:50sofa you read the sofa article right so
  451. 15:53there's an app called the sofa and it's
  452. 15:56supposed to be in theory in theory it's
  453. 15:59supposed to make the writing social
  454. 16:01stories and accessing social stories a
  455. 16:03lot easier but when I I downloaded it so
  456. 16:08what what did you find the barriers to
  457. 16:10using the app were well I felt like it
  458. 16:12just it lagged a little which like
  459. 16:14whatever it's like under construction
  460. 16:16probably it was like a little boring
  461. 16:19like you know and I felt like I thought
  462. 16:21I was going to get an app with like cool
  463. 16:23anim like it's an app so I thought there
  464. 16:25would be like animation stuff even clip
  465. 16:27art like individual part and stuff and
  466. 16:30you know it wasn't it was kind of boring
  467. 16:32fny let me like pull up like what the
  468. 16:34like the data showed right the
  469. 16:36implications or the findings were that
  470. 16:38highlighted the benefits of digital
  471. 16:40stories over traditional methods due to
  472. 16:42its accessibility customization options
  473. 16:45and the ability to collect valuable user
  474. 16:47data to improve intervention strategies
  475. 16:49okay but you know when I downloaded it I
  476. 16:52didn't feel that way but you know I
  477. 16:53trust our
  478. 16:54data valid data is valid so I wonder if
  479. 16:58even just writing like social stories
  480. 17:00like on apps and stuff that's what I was
  481. 17:02going to say so like maybe there's a way
  482. 17:03that we can like replicate the way that
  483. 17:05the sofa app the theoretical way that it
  484. 17:08was supposed to be used like maybe using
  485. 17:09canva can you talk about like when you
  486. 17:11use canva how you best format your
  487. 17:13social stories for your learner I always
  488. 17:16I make it a PowerPoint because I feel
  489. 17:17like when I make it a PowerPoint it
  490. 17:19prints easy you can print it in the
  491. 17:22multiple pages I can make it any size I
  492. 17:24want I can make it a full page or I can
  493. 17:25make four slides to one page where it's
  494. 17:27like maybe this size
  495. 17:29and then I feel like after that wait was
  496. 17:33I going with this canva how do you use
  497. 17:35canva what are your strategies so those
  498. 17:37are my key strategies and then I'll try
  499. 17:39to like make it fun exciting try to use
  500. 17:42like client's favorite colors try to use
  501. 17:45real pictures I do like I mentioned
  502. 17:48before like the numbers on the bottom if
  503. 17:49they're interested in numbers if there's
  504. 17:51if I'm writing like about stuff like no
  505. 17:55like the word no or like no don't do
  506. 17:57that that's not good I Tred to use the
  507. 17:59color red for like the it's a prompt
  508. 18:02like red is no like stop and then I try
  509. 18:04to use green sometimes for like the
  510. 18:06things I want them to I like that so
  511. 18:08you're individualizing like the phrasing
  512. 18:10and then that probably draws the like
  513. 18:12one the learner's attention to it but
  514. 18:14the reader too so that they know like to
  515. 18:16emphasize like if you're sharing it with
  516. 18:18a parent they can now know like this is
  517. 18:20how to emphasize this area and I do like
  518. 18:22the Bold sometimes like read this like
  519. 18:24that uh some other things I will do is I
  520. 18:27try to keep the font really simple and
  521. 18:30on canva you can get real wild you can
  522. 18:33get wild but we don't need to this is
  523. 18:34the time let's keep the font simple what
  524. 18:36we want to get across is those images
  525. 18:38because that's what's going to draw the
  526. 18:39Learner in and we want to like focus on
  527. 18:42the Simplicity of the language and the
  528. 18:44font as well do you have any suggestions
  529. 18:46for when you do it I feel like you're
  530. 18:48good at this you're like a social story
  531. 18:49Queen I love social stories honestly
  532. 18:51I've learned a lot of my tips from um
  533. 18:53we've mentioned Jenny before we Jenny
  534. 18:55just on just we just need to bring Jenny
  535. 18:57on once um so she at she was a student
  536. 19:00and created a social story for me at one
  537. 19:02point on um flying in the airplane oh
  538. 19:05did she she like can Photoshop guys she
  539. 19:08like will Photoshop the did she
  540. 19:09Photoshop the kid and she yeah so there
  541. 19:11was like an airplane and it has like the
  542. 19:13four windows and then there's like a
  543. 19:15little circle and she put the client's
  544. 19:17face in the circle and it was like he
  545. 19:19was flying in the airplane and so I've
  546. 19:21learned a lot from her I always joke
  547. 19:23with her that she should like just start
  548. 19:24selling them on Teachers Pay Teachers
  549. 19:26because her social stories are just
  550. 19:27fantastic I honestly speaking on her
  551. 19:30still like I remember she wrote a social
  552. 19:31store for like going to bed and she had
  553. 19:34like the nighttime sky with like stars
  554. 19:36and like in the moon she put like the
  555. 19:38little client's head that's really know
  556. 19:40I was like we used to look at it just
  557. 19:41like how cute is that so yes so I
  558. 19:44learned a lot from her like I like she
  559. 19:46made me one as um she was working on
  560. 19:48like a student project for me and so
  561. 19:50then I like took it I was like oh my
  562. 19:51gosh I need to duplicate this for my
  563. 19:52other like social story so now I'll
  564. 19:54start doing that so in canva you can
  565. 19:56select like shapes to with an image so I
  566. 19:59will always now put the client's face
  567. 20:01into the social story we should you know
  568. 20:04what we should we should have write her
  569. 20:05write or you write a task analysis on
  570. 20:07how to use canva to do this you know
  571. 20:10what that'll be a resource that we'll
  572. 20:11put in the description great
  573. 20:13idea um so I really I like to do that I
  574. 20:16too like to individualize the language
  575. 20:18something that I think um gets not
  576. 20:22really thought about is like let's not
  577. 20:24make this story super long and lengthy
  578. 20:27like to get your point across 15 SL like
  579. 20:2915 pages no I usually keep it between
  580. 20:31four and five because that's what my
  581. 20:33learner is going to attend to and like I
  582. 20:34try and keep one to two pages about
  583. 20:36preference activities and items and then
  584. 20:38like then I'll get to like the learning
  585. 20:40topic if that's like the hard part of
  586. 20:42flying in an airplane or like the
  587. 20:43negative part of being in the potty like
  588. 20:45I don't want the negativity to like
  589. 20:47overwhelm the whole story like I want to
  590. 20:50have some preference in there because
  591. 20:51we're trying to pair this activity and
  592. 20:53the learner with like the uh concept
  593. 20:55itself and their preferred activities
  594. 20:57too yeah I like that yeah all right so I
  595. 21:01have a code word I have my second code
  596. 21:04word is going to be dentist I've written
  597. 21:07so many stories about dentists how do
  598. 21:09you promote your like social stories or
  599. 21:11how do you train parents to implement
  600. 21:14social stories at home yeah so I
  601. 21:17typically will start like I'll make
  602. 21:19social stories for my families initially
  603. 21:22so I will make the social story and I
  604. 21:24try to bring parents into a training or
  605. 21:27a parent meeting where observe the um
  606. 21:30like either me or the technician
  607. 21:31utilizing the social story but my
  608. 21:33ultimate goal is to work myself out of a
  609. 21:35job like my I my thought is that I'm not
  610. 21:39always going to be in this learner's
  611. 21:40life so I want I can't always write
  612. 21:42these social stories for them something
  613. 21:44that works for them yes exactly so I'm
  614. 21:46not always going to be there to write
  615. 21:46the social story for them so I try and
  616. 21:49teach parents like how I write social
  617. 21:52stories so I will help with them like
  618. 21:55learning how to use canva or PowerPoint
  619. 21:57cuz when you make social stories yes
  620. 21:59canva is a great tool that's what I love
  621. 22:00to use but you can use PowerPoint you
  622. 22:01can use like pictures and just write
  623. 22:04them yourself so I try and like promote
  624. 22:06ways that they can write them at home
  625. 22:08right and help generalize them I also
  626. 22:10will show families like on YouTube like
  627. 22:12I know that it's not the most
  628. 22:14individualized social story but on
  629. 22:16YouTube you can find like different
  630. 22:18topics whether that be like coping
  631. 22:20strategies or like doing a challenging
  632. 22:23task like going to the dentist or potty
  633. 22:26training like you can find some basic
  634. 22:27social stories that can grow with them
  635. 22:29as they get older like going to the
  636. 22:30grocery store paying at the grocery
  637. 22:32store of that sort so I find those
  638. 22:34things on YouTube so I show parents
  639. 22:36where to find these resources so that
  640. 22:37they can utilize them when I'm hopefully
  641. 22:40not there for them like they graduate
  642. 22:42from us and they I want them to be able
  643. 22:43to use these resources still and it's
  644. 22:45important that the parents know that
  645. 22:47there should be a clear objective to the
  646. 22:48social story too right you know so yeah
  647. 22:51can you speak a little bit on
  648. 22:52that we want to make sure that you have
  649. 22:55a clear objective meaning you're either
  650. 22:57like teaching a new you're working on
  651. 22:59like showing them what the new
  652. 23:01environment may look like stuff of that
  653. 23:03sort yes so like the learning yeah like
  654. 23:05you said the learning objective has to
  655. 23:06be clear so what you are trying to gear
  656. 23:09this towards that should be the main
  657. 23:11focus and it has to like be within that
  658. 23:13story right all right and then do you
  659. 23:16feel like so you train them on where to
  660. 23:18find the resources kind of how to read
  661. 23:20them how to read them to the learner
  662. 23:22when to use them so like I'll write it
  663. 23:24within my behavior plan as like one of
  664. 23:26my behavior plan goals for parents a lot
  665. 23:27of times be the proactive strategy it's
  666. 23:30a proactive strategy so parent will
  667. 23:32introduce um social story once per day
  668. 23:35for five you know days in a row or
  669. 23:37whatever is reported by parent so that
  670. 23:39they know how to use the social story
  671. 23:41throughout the day we don't have to be
  672. 23:42providing and we don't need to listen to
  673. 23:43it every five minutes I was going to say
  674. 23:46like don't present it 30 times a day
  675. 23:48because then it's going to become
  676. 23:48aversive so like I'm yes teaching them
  677. 23:51like when to use it and how to use it um
  678. 23:53how to create their own um and then
  679. 23:56where to find other resources because
  680. 23:58sometimes you don't have time to like
  681. 23:59write a whole social story we did say
  682. 24:00it's a res A busy life exactly all right
  683. 24:04so before we end what's your favorite
  684. 24:06social story Ben that you've written or
  685. 24:08that you've read my favorite social
  686. 24:10story that I have written I did one on
  687. 24:13sharing toys with a sibling and I really
  688. 24:15liked that one um that my learner really
  689. 24:18enjoyed it it had him and his brother in
  690. 24:19it so he liked like and he labeled him
  691. 24:22and his brother's name and like it had
  692. 24:24all toys that they really enjoyed in
  693. 24:26there so it was just really fun the
  694. 24:27learner was really interested in it so I
  695. 24:29liked that one my favorite one was
  696. 24:32riding one about going to the airport
  697. 24:34and riding an airplane because the
  698. 24:36parents actually got to go like in our
  699. 24:38area we have the like the airport event
  700. 24:41where they families can go beforeand
  701. 24:44what's it called I forget what it's
  702. 24:45called I feel it's coming up in the next
  703. 24:46few weeks we'll we'll link it down below
  704. 24:48or yes there's one in Michigan so I had
  705. 24:50the family go to that before and they
  706. 24:51took pictures of everything in the plane
  707. 24:54and in the airport and then they sent it
  708. 24:55to me and I put it in their social he so
  709. 24:58ready by the time it was time to go and
  710. 25:01he with he was so excited that's so cute
  711. 25:04I love that all right and then one last
  712. 25:07code word before we end right our final
  713. 25:09code word for the day is actually plane
  714. 25:11ride it goes hand in hand with your
  715. 25:12story all right everyone thank you for
  716. 25:15listening we'll see you guys next
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