Well today is a day about social stories and reminded me of the project I did around social thinking by Marcia Garner-Winters, although the lady in the spotlight today is Carol Grey. I do believe that we looked at her social stories when doing the broader topic of social thinking. Interestingly we looked at it from four different perspectives, Learning Center/Resource, Parent/Teacher Professional Development, Severe Learning and the 3-4 classroom that I happened to be teaching this year.
The social stories quickly help a personal identify the behavior expected in certain circumstance,s and ideally we have an expectation that all children have these skills, that is not always the case. We all need explicit and clear instructions on what behavior we are looking for in what circumstance so that everyone is clear, that is something we take for granted some times. I mean if we can identify specific needs in a child based on economics, home dysfunction, anger, etc., then how is it we can expect those same children to know the specific behaviors in the school site.
We had a wonderful time today in a group with Sarah, Gail, Calee and me making a social story video, we had Calee as the student that needed to focus on one specific behavior. It is important to realize that we must practice, repeat, practice repeat, especially for children with memory issues and cognitive delays. It was exciting to watch a presentation on social stories, hear about the successes, and then get the opportunity for the hands on experience. I made an observation how both of our classes are working in conjunction with each other, we are learning about collaboration and sharing information in the morning class and then getting the opportunity to practice in the AT class, thank you Barb.
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