Article Review: Don’t feel comfortable having ASD students in your classroom? Here’s a useful resource that can help you! Use of Social Stories to Improve Self-Regulation in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Thompson and Johnston’s (2013) goal was to examine and determine whether or not the use of social stories as a tool in the classroom could actually improve self-regulation in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Social stories are stories that have been respectfully written for a particular individual depending on their needs. The social story focuses on a person, skill, concept, situation or social situation and the reasoning behind the creation of these social stories is built on the fact that they may help with the understanding of social cognition in autism. In addition…