ASD students’ needs - Module 2
4. CHANGES AND MOMENTS WITHOUT STRUCTURE
4.1. Notify students of changes
To notify the students of the changes, it is necessary to prepare it in advance, for this it is very convenient that we use Social Stories (prepared by Carol Gray in 2000). These are short narratives, as a script accompanied by images that explain the information of a specific context, inform about why it happens, which people are going to be related and how the protagonist should act.
Through these stories the main objective is to provide students with ASD through descriptive phrases so that they know how to direct their actions. For example, in the following picture we can see how they tell the student with ASD how to act when they get angry
Figure 7. Example of social history
Apart from the social stories, it is also advisable at times to provide visual schemes that incorporate the activities of the students, this helps us to introduce specific changes at certain times. In the following image you can see an example of how a routine change schedule has been developed.
Figure 8. Example of schedule. Page 13. Smith B and Cols (s.f.). Simple strategies that work. Helpful tips for all student educators include Asperger's Syndrome, High-Functioning Autism, and Related Disabilities.