Autism and Asperger Syndrome: Strategies to promote prosocial behaviours

Social Stories: Mechanisms of Effectiveness in Increasing Game Play Skills in Children Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder Using a Pretest Posttest Repeated Measures Randomized Control Group Design

“…Del Valle et al (2001) Uses of social stories Greenway (2000) Strategies to promote prosocial behaviors Gut and Safran (2002) Strategies to improve social skills for classroom inclusion Hess et al (2008) Autism Treatment Survey: Services received by children with autism spectrum disorders in public school classrooms in Georgia…”

Social StoriesTM: does the research evidence support the popularity?

“…Consequently, their development and well-being have become prominent issues for educational psychologists (EPs), who are often commissioned to provide mainstream schools with intervention strategies to support their inclusion (Attwood, 2000;Greenway, 2000). One such intervention strategy is Social Stories TM (Gray & Garand, 1993), which aims to teach social information to individuals with ASDs in order to facilitate improved social functioning (Gray, 2000).…”

Social Stories™ for Children with Disabilities

“…495) define ToM as describing ''...whatever knowledge guides prepositional attitude attribution and the explanation and prediction of behaviour by means of inner states and processes.'' Individuals with autism, lacking ToM, are unable to appreciate other people's intentions, beliefs, needs and desires (Greenway, 2000). Research shows both linguistic (Happe, 1995) and social skills (Ozonoff & Miller, 1995) support the development of ToM.…”