What does a social story look like?
Social stories follow a set structure of sentence types: Descriptive sentence provides information about specific social settings or situations, for example they provide cues to what the person sees, who is involved, and what happens, an example of a descriptive sentence being: At lunch time most of the children will go to the dinner hall. Perspective sentences describe the feelings, emotions, thoughts, and/or mood of other people. Describing the way a situation is viewed by some body else, many kids with autism have difficulties understanding how others see things they lack the ability to read facial expression or body language. An example of a perspective sentence being: Usually, when people are happy, they smile. Smiling makes people feel good. Directive sentences provide the autistic person with information about what they should try and do, to be successful in the situation. An example of a directive sentence being: If I stay calm in class, I will learn more. Control sentences pro
