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Steps to Social Success (Social Stories)

FirstPath Autism’s Steps to Social Success® help teach and promote socially acceptable behavior. These social stories provide the child an explanation of the behavior of others, give coping strategies, and help establish predictable routines and/or expectations. In addition, these steps can help teach the child how to behave in certain situations, and even script potential responses for the child to use in certain situations.

Steps to Social Success are a low-stress way to teach a variety of life skills and situations. And because these stories are personalized, a child can relate and apply the content to his or her individual life and are often a better way to reach your child then a structured lesson.

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Glossary

05/26/2016/by FPAdmin Autism

Follow-up comments and questions

The goal of this lesson, Follow-up comments and questions, is to teach your child to expand conversations by asking relevant, on-topic, follow-up comments and questions in response to a person’s previous statement. This lesson is important because it helps your child to maintain and expand a conversation and strengthens communication skills.

In order to get the most out of this lesson, the child should have mastered the following Conversation (Advanced) lessons:

Personal information

Simple statements

Follow-up questions

While visual cues can be helpful, this lesson is based on verbal interaction and requires no specific supporting materials.

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Glossary

05/26/2016/by FPAdmin Autism

Conversation (Advanced), Social skills

Asking WH questions

This lesson, Asking WH questions, teaches your child how to formulate and ask questions to seek information. “WH” questions refer to who, what, when, where, why, and how. Up until this point, your child has been the one answering most questions. But in this lesson, we will teach him/her to ask appropriate questions.

This lesson can be taught as a guessing game, and then, as skills are mastered, it can be expanded upon via conversations such as real or pretend interviews, or writing a newspaper article or blog post. You can also explore real-life situations such as taking a tour of a museum or zoo.

Lesson guide

Data sheet

Glossary

05/26/2016/by FPAdmin Autism

Conversation (Advanced), Social skills

Measuring exchanges

In the lesson, Measuring exchanges, you will record the content and number of conversational exchanges that occur to measure your child’s increasing ability to maintain and sustain a relevant, on-topic conversation.

At this level, much of the teaching occurs naturally and is based upon the deficiencies noted when analyzing the data. For some children, it may become apparent that their primary difficulty is staying on topic; for others, they cannot maintain a conversation for longer than a few exchanges at a time; for others, they might have difficulty with interrupting their partner. This lesson seeks to measure and address each of these issues, as applicable.

Lesson guide

Data sheet

Glossary

05/26/2016/by FPAdmin Autism

Conversation (Basic)

Familiar fill-ins

This lesson, Conversation training: Familiar fill-ins, focuses on beginning conversation (verbal interaction) skills. The lesson teaches the very basic beginning concept of “when I say something, you respond”; “when you say something, I respond”.

Use the downloadable PDFs below to get the most from this lesson:

12/15/2014/by

Answering WH questions

This lesson, Answering WH questions (questions which use “who, what, where, when, why, which, and how”) focuses on the beginning ability to have conversations and verbally interact with others.

The intent of this particular lesson is to take previously mastered information and use that to build the child’s conversation ability. Also, it continues to build the skill of verbally responding to questions. This lesson should begin with concrete and visually available objects rather than abstract subjects.

Use the downloadable PDFs below to get the most from this lesson:

12/15/2014/by

Greetings and closings

This lesson, Greetings and closings, teaches how to respond to, and later initiate, social greetings and closings such as “Hello”, “Goodbye”, “See you later”, etc.

Use the downloadable PDFs below to get the most from this lesson:

Lesson guide

Data sheet

Glossary

12/15/2014/by

Conversation (Advanced), Social skills

Personal information

This lesson, Advanced conversation: Personal information, teaches how to appropriately respond to common social questions regarding personal information, which is often related to meeting other people, as well as safety skills. Targets include first name, last name, parents’ names, address, phone number, age, etc.

Use the downloadable PDFs below to get the most from this lesson:

Lesson guide

Data sheet

Glossary

12/16/2014/by

Conversation (Advanced), Social skills

Simple statements

This lesson, Simple statements, teaches conversation skills. The basic concept of verbal exchanges: when one person says something, then the other person replies. This reply should be a relevant, on-topic statement (or, later, question). Targets include: “I see____”, “I have_____”, “I like_______”, etc.

Use the downloadable PDFs below to get the most from this lesson:

Lesson guide

Data sheet

Glossary

12/16/2014/by

Conversation (Advanced), Social skills

Follow-up questions

This lesson, Follow-up questions, teaches conversation skills, and the basic concept of expanding verbal exchanges and/or learning to maintain a conversation. In this lesson, the child learns to ask a relevant follow-up question to a conversational exchange that just occurred.

Use the downloadable PDFs below to get the most from this lesson:

Lesson guide

Data sheet

Glossary

12/16/2014/by

Steps to Social Success (Social Stories)

Familiar fill-ins

Answering WH questions

Greetings and closings

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