Social Stories™ to alleviate challenging behaviour and social difficulties exhibited by children with autism spectrum disorder in mainstream schools: design of a manualised training toolkit and feasibility study for a cluster randomised controlled trial w
Wright, Barry; Marshall, David; Adamson, Joy; Ainsworth, Hannah; Ali, Shehzad; Allgar, Victoria; Collingridge Moore, Danielle; Cook, Elizabeth; Dempster, Paul; Hackney, Lisa; McMillan, Dean; Trepél, Dominic; Williams, Chris · White Rose Research Online
BACKGROUND: A Social Story™ (Carol Gray) is a child-friendly intervention that is used to give children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) social information in situations where they have social difficulties. Limited evidence mainly using single-case designs suggests that they can reduce anxiety and challenging behaviour. OBJECTIVES: The objectives were t…