Revealing the Hidden Social Code

Marie Howley is a senior lecturer with the Centre for Special Needs Education and Research (SESNER) team at University College Northampton. She has extensive experience as a specialist teacher working with children and adults with autistic spectrum disorders and has co-authored many books, including Accessing the Curriculum for Pupils with Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Eileen Arnold is a former specialist speech and language therapist. She has extensive practice of using Social StoriesTM in a wide range of settings and has worked closely with Carol Gray. She is currently consultant to, and lectures and presents for the Northamptonshire Society for Autism.

1. Introduction and Rationale for Social Stories. 2. Preparing to Write: Gathering Information. 3. Sentences and Structure: Descriptive, Perspective and Directive Sentences. 4. Advanced Social Stories: Additional Sentence Types: Control, Affirmative, Cooperative and Partial Sentences. 5. Presenting, Implementing and Monitoring. 6. Introductory Social Stories and Complementary Strategies. 7. Problem Solving and What to Do when Social Stories Do Not Work! Final Thoughts. Appendices.