General
Social Stories
ASD Facts
Comic Strip Conversations
100

An individualized short story that can be used to assist individuals with ASD in interpreting and understanding challenging or confusing social situations (Sansosti et at pg. 195)

Social Stories

100

Four modes of social story implementation (Sansosti et al pg. 196)

1. Read by caregiver or independently

2. Presented through audio equipment

3. Presented through a computer-based program

4. Presented via videotape

100

True or False: ASD is the fastest growing development disability in the U.S. (Sansosti et al pg. 194)

True

100

This strategy looks at pictures in the story, makes predictions, and confirms predictions (Gately pg. 41-42)

Picture walks

200

True or false: Reading comprehension strategies should not be used in a general education classroom (Gately pg. 45)

False

200

True or False: There is sufficient information available that supports the use of social stories as an evidence based approach for individuals with ASD (Sansosti et al pg. 200)

False

200

The name for children with poor reading comprehension (Gately page 40)

Hyperlexia

200

This strategy models thinking out loud (Gately pg. 42)

Think alouds and reciprocal thinking

300

The first step in basic understanding of a story (Gately pg. 43)

Knowing who the main character of the text is and what they did. 

300

A social story enhances an individual's understanding of a social situations and an _________ that can be practiced by the individual (Sansosti et al pg. 195) 

Appropriate behavioral response

300

True or False: Individuals with ASD demonstrate significant difficulty identifying behaviors, beliefs, and intentions of others (Gately pg. 40) 

True

300

This strategy organizes the story using shapes, lines, and arrows (Gately pg. 43)

Goal structure mapping

400

Three key components related to reading comprehension (Gately pg. 40)

Vocabulary, style of writing, story structure, character's social experiences, understand character's emotions. 

400

The basic steps when developing a social story intervention (Sansosti et al pg. 195)

1. Targeting a specific problematic social situation

2. Identify salient features of a context or setting

3. Generate social story with information from first and second steps

400

The cost of individuals with ASD in the U.S. (Sansosti  et al pg. 194)

$90 billion

400

This strategy uses actor words and action words to sequence the story (Gately pg. 42-43)

Understanding the narrative structure

500

Name of a reading comprehension strategy and how it relates to a comic strip (Gately pg. 40-45)

Any answer related to breaking down a story visually

500

The four guidelines/sentence types for writing a social story (Sansosti et al pg. 195)

1. Descriptive

2. Directive

3. Perspective

4. Affirmative

500

A type of cued instruction that's beneficial to children with ASD (Gately pg. 41)

Visually cued instruction

500

The names of all eight strategies for higher order reading comprehension skills (Gately pg. 41)

1. Priming background knowledge

2. Picture walks

3. Visual maps

4. Think alouds and reciprocal thinking

5. Understanding narrative text structure

6. Goal structure mapping

7. Emotional thermometers

8. Social stories