This workshop supports you in learning the necessary techniques for creating social stories to enhance your child's social skills and provides hands-on practice to gain practical experience.
Along with a 1-hour lecture, you will engage in creating storyboards, observing your child, setting target behaviors, and developing custom social stories for your child.
At the end of the workshop, you will email the storyboard and any photos or illustrations used in the story creation process. We will create and send a social story for your child once, based on this information.
Duration: 80-90 minutes
Objectives:
Understand the background and importance of social stories.
Learn the components necessary for creating social stories.
Create practical social stories by collaborating on storyboards.
Workshop Content:
1. What is a Social Story?
Definition of social stories
Importance and effectiveness of social stories
Differences between social stories and social storybooks
2. Introduction to Social Story Components
Writing the introduction, body, and conclusion
Explanation of essential sentences
3. Hands-on Practice: Storyboard Creation
Topic selection: Choosing necessary social situations with parents
Storyboard writing: Structuring the story with all components
Feedback session: Sharing and discussing storyboards for feedback
4. Conclusion and Q&A
Time for additional questions and answers
Guidance on social story creation and sending after the workshop
5. Post-Workshop Activities:
Creating and sending a social story based on the storyboard created during the workshop
Individual support for any additional revisions or questions
Participants Should Prepare:
Checklist for necessary social behaviors for your child (to be provided before the lecture)
Lecture notes (42 pages)
Writing tools
Laptop or tablet (optional)
Ideas and enthusiasm
Target Audience:
Parents who want to improve their child's social skills
