Study on Autism Spectrum Disorder and Social Stories Purpose and Utility

Abstract

Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) typically manifest serious weaknesses with respect to social and communicative skills. The main purpose of this chapter is to provide a brief overview of studies involving the use of Social Stories (SS) as a strategy to support students with ASD in attaining communicative skills. More specifically, this review has three main objectives: (a) to inform about the general purpose and the positive results after integrating story-telling methods into the learning and teaching process, (b) to evaluate the prospects of creating SS through digital media in relation to arousing children’s interest in the subject matter and reinforce their creativity in developing a variety of life skills and (c) to stimulate teachers at improving the efficiency and effectiveness of SS in communication for students with ASD by presenting some enlightening examples of digitally integrated SS within the Greek educational setting especially nowadays in connection with the Covid pandemic. Any educator can actually benefit from reading this paper and, more particularly, those educators who instruct students identified with ASD or any other developmental disability.