Many children with autism spectrum disorder have difficulties learning and understanding social skills and interactions.

For many parents of children with autism spectrum disorder the challenges of trying to teach their autistic child the unspoken rules of social behavior can be a struggle.

Typically developing children naturally learn social skills from their environment, family and peers. However for children with autism spectrum disorder this natural ability is missing. Therefore parents of children with autism need to teach social skills directly to their autistic child.

Many parents of children with autism spectrum use strategies for teaching social skills to autistic children such as autism social skills stories.

An autism social story is written following a specific formula, created almost twenty years ago by therapist Carol Gray to help teach social and communication skills to children with autism and related disorders.

The goal of an autism social story is to provide a step by step visual plan for the child with autism to use the story will give appropriate and inappropriate behavior and responses that the child with autism can expect also how others will expect them to act.

For a child with autism a simple task such as brushing their teeth can cause anxieties and frustrations, using social skills stories to help with teaching social skills to autistic children can help the child with autism understand and master this simple skill. The social story will help with complex skills also such as birth, a wedding, anniversary, parties even death.

The social skills story can explain emotions, reactions and changes to routines, giving the autistic child chance to practice and feel comfortable with and in certain circumstances or with skills and behaviors they otherwise struggle to understand and master.

To download autism social skills stories to help with teaching social skills to autistic children visit: http://www.autismsocialstories.com

Or the following sites:

http://www.autismsocialskillsstories.org.uk

http://www.autismsocialstories.org.uk