Transforming Social Stories with Your iPad

1. Telling
Social
Stories
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Facilitators:
Janis Arnold, Educational
Diagnostician
Miguel Guhlin, Director of
Technology Operations
East Central ISD

2. How To Connect
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Janis Arnold Miguel Guhlin
Email: janisarnold1@gmail.com Email: mguhlin@gmail.com
www.janisarnold.com Twitter: mguhlin

3. In this hands-on session, learn how to
blend images and sound into a video
social story using your iPad.
Learn how you can use inexpensive
apps on the iPad to easily create social
stories for those within the autism
spectrum.
overview of today’s session

4. Why are social stories needed?

5. What To Look For:
social impairment

6. What To Look For:
verbal and non-verbal language impairment

7. What To Look For:
Repetitive/stereotyped behaviors

8. how do we help?

9. 1. Assess
II. Define Diagnosis
(Staffing)
III. Educational Plan
IV. An answer for some -
Social Stories
how do we help?

10. 1. Assess
II. Define Diagnosis
(Staffing)
III. Educational Plan
IV. An answer for some -
Social Stories
how do we help?

11. how do we help?

12. "Social Stories were devised as
a tool to help individuals on the
autism spectrum better
understand the nuances of
interpersonal communication
so that they could interact in an
effective and appropriate
manner."
(Source: Wikipedia)
defining social story

13. Example #1 -
Walking in a Straight Line

14. Example #2 -
Behavior to Model

15. http://goo.gl/htwpu
Existing Social Stories

16. 1. Determine point, theme or purpose.
Identify the skill you want to teach (e.g. going to the
restroom, walking in a line, social initiation skills) and/or
define the replacement skill.
Steps to Creating Social Stories

17. 2. Capture pictures/video of pro-social
behaviors.
(e.g. taking turns, sharing).
Steps to Creating Social Stories

18. 3. Reduce the words that will appear in the social
story script and feature them next to the picture.
Some may see
this as
“storyboarding.”
Steps to Creating Social Stories

19. 4. Select your technology to create the social
story.
iBook Author
https://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/
Tools You Can Use
iPad Apps
Steps to Creating Social Stories

20. 5. Publish the social story digitally...share it via
iPad or computer as a video file that the parent and
staff can access.
Upload files to an iPad from
a Mac, or save them to a
Mac from aniPad
Steps to Creating Social Stories

21. 5. Publish the social story...print and laminate
them for parents to take home, as well be placed in
the classroom library.
Steps to Creating Social Stories

22. Questions? Find us Online...
Find Session Resources Online at:
http://mglearns.wikispaces.com
Special Thanks to
East Central ISD
Janis Arnold Miguel Guhlin
Email: janisarnold1@gmail.com Email: mguhlin@gmail.com
www.janisarnold.com Twitter: mguhlin