Guide for using social narratives to teachs social concepts to people with autism and related disorders

1. A GUIDE FOR TEACHING SOCIAL
CONCEPTS AND PERSPECTIVE
TAKING USING WRITTEN
NARRATIVES
Social R3 Narratives

2. Social R3 Narratives
LANDRIA SEALS GREEN, MA., CCC-SLP www.landriagreen.com
 A script of social skill expectations
 Reaches social cognition thought process
 Gives insight into perspective taking
1. Regulatemy behavior
2. Retoolfor the next time
3. Reassessthe situation
Why do
learners
need this?

3. Social R3 Narratives
LANDRIA SEALS GREEN, MA., CCC-SLP www.landriagreen.com
 Written from the perspective of the child
 Written with the child
 Embeds the perspective of the most important people
 Starts with the truth
 Written with technology to edit, send, and share with
others.
 Embed the reinforcement established by the Behavior
Improvement Plan
 Measures feelings and perspectives in small, medium, big
 Addresses the fluidity of good and bad ideas across
situations, people, places (embedded flexibility).

4. STARTS WITH THE TRUTH FROM THE
CHILD’S PERSPECTIVE
LANDRIA SEALS GREEN, MA., CCC-SLP www.landriagreen.com
 I like …..
 Waiting is hard for me….
 I don’t like gym class
By creating the social narrative from the feeling state of the child,
we honor their perspective. The narrative is then developed to
understand a more whole picture perspective and broaden the
thought process of the learner. -Seals Green, 2015

5. Written with the Child
LANDRIA SEALS GREEN, MA., CCC-SLP www.landriagreen.com
 On the computer
 Indirectly build in sentence expansion activities.
 Use their words and expand.
 Great time to discuss and focus on maintaining
topics
With children with ASD, this is very important in focus, topic
maintenance, and giving them a transferable strategy to regulate,
refocus, reassess their own behavior. -Seals Green, 2015

6. Perspective Taking
LANDRIA SEALS GREEN, MA., CCC-SLP www.landriagreen.com
 Conversation Colors by Carol Gray is the standard
visual we use to illustrate the perspectives and
feeling states of others and the child.
 We speak in feeling state not color
 I am feeling angry
 ≠I am feeling red

7. Technology as the tool
LANDRIA SEALS GREEN, MA., CCC-SLP
www.landriagreen.com
 Connects words to text
 Transfer of this skill set to retool, reassess, and self-
manage.
 Literacy and written language barriers can be
overcome using tools such as speech to text and
writing with symbols.
 Easily shareable to families and teachers
 Accessible reference for the child using ipads,etc.

8. How I use them during sessions
LANDRIA SEALS GREEN, MA., CCC-SLP www.landriagreen.com
I sometimes use a mini whiteboard with the colored
markers
Taking a picture of the child with the story and
send/share
Type on a computer (powerpoint, word,infographic)
Accompany with a comic strip that depicts the
perspectives of others with thought/speech bubbles.
Social R3 Narratives never provide a true script but
targets the topography of the behavior being
addressed. This supports transferrable behaviors
and habits.

9. LANDRIA SEALS GREEN, MA., CCC-SLP
www.landriagreen.com