Social Stories to Enhance Communicative Strategies Among Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Children

The effects of an educational program based on modeling and social stories on improvements in the social skills of students with autism

“…(2015) , who found that VM was effective in teaching empathy and other social skills to individuals with ASD. Moreover, Amirrudin et al. (2019) suggested that the improvement seen among individuals with ASD in terms of being sympathetic with animals and elderly people was associated with the use of SS.…”

“…Some studies have relied on SS to enhance the verbal communication of children with ASD ( Amirrudin et al., 2019 ) by improving their conversation skills ( Golzari et al., 2015 ) or certain social behaviors (nose-wiping and greeting others) ( Karayazi et al., 2014 ), such as asking questions, sharing objectives, offering greetings and self-introductions, participating in activities and conversations, asking for assistance ( Amin and Oweini, 2013 ), or reducing inappropriate social behaviors ( Samuels and Stansfield, 2012 ). The results of these studies indicated that SS effectively improves the targeted social skills of all participants with ASD.…”

The Effects of an Educational Program Based on Modeling and Social Stories to Improve the Social Skills of Students with Autism

“…Amirrudin and colleagues (2019) conducted a study to examine the effect of social stories in improving the verbal communication skills of four children with ASD, aged between seven and nine years old. The results of the study demonstrated that the intervention based on social stories around moral values was effective in increasing verbal communication of the participants with ASD, and increased their perception about moral values toward animals and older people (Amirrudin et al, 2019). Watkins and colleagues (2019) evaluated the effect of packaged intervention based on modeling, play, responding to questions, and instruction to enhance the social interaction of four participants with ASD, aged between four and six years old, attending an inclusive setting at a private school.…”

“…The previous studies were conducted by utilizing video modeling solely (Axe & Evans, 2012;Cardon, 2013;Ho et al, 2019;Mason et al, 2012;Özerk, 2015;Plavnick et al, 2015;So et al, 2016;Stauch et al, 2018;Keen et al, 2007), or video self-modeling (Boudreau & Harvey, 2012;Buggey et al, 2011), or compared the effect of both approaches VM and VSM (Thirumanickam et al, 2018). The point of view VM was utilized by two studies (Kouo, 2018a;Meister et al, 2015), and the SS was used in six studies ( Almutlaq & Martella, 2018;Amin & Oweini, 2013;Amirrudin et al, 2019;Golzari et al, 2015;Karayazi et al, 2014;Samuels & Stansfield, 2012). In contrast, some studies utilized VM and SS combined (Handley et al, 2015;Kagohara et al, 2013;Radley et al, 2015Radley et al, , 2017Uzuegbunam & Wong, 2018), or compared between SS and photoactivity (Daneshvar et al, 2019), or VM (Acar et al, 2016;Malmberg et al, 2015), or compared static pictures and VM (Kellems et al, 2018).…”

“…The previous studies targeted individuals with ASD; however, only two studies targeted children with HFASD (Kagohara et al, 2013;Rodríguez-Medina et al, 2016), and two studies targeted children with HFASD and LFASD (Radley et al, 2015;Amirrudin et al, 2019). Most of the studies targeted ASD in general.…”