Comic Strip Conversations: Illustrated interactions that teach conversation skills to students with autism and related disorders: Improving social ... and other developmental disabilities

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Carol initiated the use of Social Stories in 1991 and has written numerous articles, chapters, and books on the subject.

Try asking the person with autism to select the materials that they would like to use for their comic strip conversations. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. By providing information about what might happen in a particular situation, and some guidelines for behaviour, you can increase structure in a person's life and thereby reduce anxiety. Guidelines on introducing and using social stories effectively, so that they produce the benefits you intend.For complex situations, or for people who have difficulty reporting events in sequence, comic strip boxes may be used, or drawings can be numbered in the sequence in which they occur. Comic strip conversations provide visual representations of the different levels of communication that take place in a conversation, using symbols, stick figure drawings and colour. This worked well, but unfortunately this book does not give anything pre written conversation strategies. Start with small talk (for example, talking about the weather) to get the person you are supporting familiar with drawing while talking and to mimic ordinary social interactions. Children can also recognize that, although people say one thing, they may think something quite different―another concept foreign to "concrete-thinking" children.

Think about ways to aid comprehension – would adding questions help, or replacing some text with blanks for the person to fill in?Social storiesTM and comic strip conversations can help autistic people develop greater social understanding and help them stay safe. The National Autistic Society is also a company limited by guarantee, registered at Companies House (01205298). The content and presentation of social stories should be appropriate to the person's age and level of understanding.

You can use just paper, pencils, crayons and markers, computer word processing applications, or you could use an app. This book combines stick-figures with conversation symbols to illustrate what people say and think during conversations. They can help with sequencing (what comes next in a series of activities) and 'executive functioning' (planning and organising). Comic strip conversations can be used to increase social understanding in young people and adults on the higher functioning end of the autism spectrum. By seeing the different elements of a conversation presented visually, some of the more abstract aspects of social communication (such as recognising the feelings of others) are made more 'concrete' and are therefore easier to understand.

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