The What Friends Are and Are Not Social Story is a visual aid that uses images and words to help a learner recognize friends versus non friends.
What is a Social Story: What Friends Are and Are Not?
The What Friends Are and Are Not Social Story is a visual aid that uses images and words to help a learner recognize friends versus non friends. Think of it as a visual preview for the learner to know when someone is their friend versus not their friend.
Some learners struggle with recognizing who is a friend. This social story will compare the differences between someone who is a friend and someone who is not a friend. Understanding what behaviors friends have will also help the learner to be a good friend.
The goal of the What Friends Are and Are Not Social Story is to develop the learner’s ability to recognize who is being a friend and who is not. Abstract concepts can be difficult for some learners. This social story aims to use clear, plain language such as “friends are nice to me” and “friends make me feel better when I am having a bad day”.
The learner can read and/or look at the pictures when they are having difficulty remembering who is their friend and who is not.
A benefit of having it read like a story, is it allows the carer to read the social story as often as wanted and with inflection to make it more interesting to the learner.
