Description

What are some of the characteristics of autism in childhood? What are Social Stories? How can the Social Stories™ intervention address the social and emotional health of autistic children in UK primary schools? All this and more answered as Professor Umar Toseeb interviews Professor Barry Wright, Dr. Jane Blackwell, Dr. Kerry Bell, and Emma Standley about their pragmatic randomised controlled trial of the Social Stories™ intervention.

Learning Objectives

1. What autism is and some of the characteristics of autism in childhood.

2. Is there evidence that interventions for autistic children work?

3. What Social Stories are, the key ingredients of a Social Story, and insight into Carol Gray's Social Stories™.

4. The evidence-base and what evidence gap the CAMH paper aims to address.

5. What the findings mean for education professionals and future research directions.

Paper Link

https://doi.org/10.1111/camh.12740