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Friday, May 4, 2012

Social Skills and Storytelling Apps

image via: http://www.theartofed.com/2012/02/12/losing-students-attention-try-storytelling/

SensiGirl needs help with her story telling and cognition at school. I was reading Thinking In Pictures and came across a passage I thought was telling. " In a study at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where parents (of autistic children) were asked to make up a story, 34 % made up a rambling, plotless story without a clear beginning, middle and end. This is the nature of associational visual thinking. It is like putting a jigsaw puzzle together. It is not done in any particular order." This is just studying the parents; imagine if we were able to find a way to get a story out of some of our kids. Would they be rambling and plotless? Teaching how to tell a story is important in our society, whether it is relating what happened at school or explaining a chemical reaction in a scientific paper.
Cognition testing at school, social interactions, learning new skills they all relate to ordered storytelling. So I have enlisted SensiGirl's speech therapist and her teacher at school to help her with her storytelling. Her are some apps that we are trying to help with her story telling skills.