Social Stories

A quick “cheat sheet” for Social Story construction

A Social Story has four sentence types:

• descriptive: the setting and what people normally do
• directive: to give appropriate response
• perspective: reactions of others
• control: written by the individual to remember the context

Carol Gray recommends one directive sentence for every two or three of the other sentence types.

Always and I will are word choices to avoid since they are inflexible.

Use pictures, icons, include a mini-schedule and a clock if needed.

Read several times before the event.