- ISBN13: 9781885477668
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
The newest offering by Carol Gray. Social Stories help the child with autism or Asperger’s Syndrome to understand the social world around them. This book is an updated version of the New Social Story Book with new text and accompanying illustrations…. More >>
The New Social Story Book : Illustrated Edition
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#1 by Anonymous on May 13, 2010 - 10:47 am
The book is good, it is the start of a tool box for these sorts of issues.
It is very well presented and organized.
It is far more useful than “Eating an Artichoke”(which is basically the “Chick Flick” of Asburger/Autism books).
My child is described as “High Functioning Asburgers”, so this book wasn’t as useful as I would have hoped, but I am going to incorporate some things in the book into my child’s education.
Rating: 3 / 5
#2 by John Harpur on May 13, 2010 - 1:30 pm
I do voluntary work with Asperger adolescents and I have yet to find any serious research in support of ’social stories’. Admittedly they are pitched at low functiong young children, but the heuristics are so general and traditional (and so widespread in visualisation therapies in general) that it is nigh on impossible to extract a testable method.
This book is an example from a genre for kids with special needs that bases its ‘methodology’ on repackaging the obvious. To be fair a minority of parents may find that helpful, and good luck to them. But how does one distinguish between the contributions a good teacher makes to a child’s improvement, and any contribution from social stories? I have no idea.
A different and more research grounded approach is taken by Howlin and Baron-Cohen: Teaching children with Autism to mind read. However,it is horses for courses, and parents may prefer the ‘touchy feely’ hue of Social Stories. Personally I would want something stronger than anecdotal reports.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Southland on May 13, 2010 - 3:33 pm
I like the variety of ways that the stories can be presented to the student. The stories may be cut into conceptual thoughts, or put into a three-ring binder, placing the pages in plastic sheets, just to name a couple. It leaves room also for filling in any missing pieces of the Social Story puzzle, dependending on the circumstance.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by Karen J. Stile on May 13, 2010 - 4:16 pm
Great book but I am upset with Amazon.com. Please remember that when you are just simply “Browsing” a product and try to merely put in your cart or saved box they will charge you. Another problem with this particular book is that it was supposed to come as a set with the comic strip conversation book (also a very terrific book) – so I clicked on that after I saw the duo combo for cheaper = Amazon sent me two of the same books (social stories) = no comic strip conversations, when I returned the one (as I do not need two) they charged me a shipping cost that was free prior. I would recommend being very careful, I have always, always ordered my books from Amazon.com but now I am extremely careful. Just one story…
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Paddlin Medic on May 13, 2010 - 5:55 pm
I read the recommendations and thought, wow, this book could help us. Our son with Aspergers Syndrome took one look at it and thought we were nuts. He’s having none of it. So thanks, but no thanks.
Rating: 2 / 5