Social Story

Batman Lives At My School

May 4, 2013
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Heidi is still very anxious at school and has been taking a transition toy to school every day. Taking a toy is not an issue but sometimes her choice of toy is not the most appropriate for school, other days there is a huge drama at home in the morning as Heidi can’t cope with [...]

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Scratch That

September 4, 2012
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Exciting plans for tomorrow at our house. Our Teachers are on strike, so there is no school. I’m not too sad about that because Heidi at least wouldn’t have been at school tomorrow anyway. This way she isn’t missing yet another day of learning, we are averaging about 1 day a week off for both [...]

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What is Death?

July 11, 2012
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Originally published on my Posterous blog September 19, 2008 The story text is from here – http://www.polyxo.com/socialstories/ss0014.html I have added images. Click here to download “What Is Death” Social Story In some cases where I was unsure what image to use I would google for images (eg hurt) and then asked Heidi to choose one. [...]

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Playing Tag – a social story

March 18, 2011

Remember when I was looking around for social stories about playing tag?  This is what I have come up with:   Playing Tag When the Little Lunch or Big Lunch bell goes, I can say to friends, “Do you want to play tag?” My friends might say, “No” that is okay. I could play on [...]

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Social Stories

March 1, 2011

I’m trying to find a social story about playing tag / chasey in the school playground. Heidi is really struggling with this game, I’m not sure if it is the turn taking aspect, the fluid nature of school playground games or what exactly.   In the meantime some helpful links I have found in my [...]

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Autism in our Bathroom

February 24, 2011

One of the things with Autism / Aspergers is that often you can’t see from a persons physical appearance that they are different. That is certainly the case with my girls. But there are some clues, here and there around our house, which give away that we do things differently. One such spot is the [...]

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Traveling With Autism

January 6, 2011

I’m joining in Thursday 13 with 13 Things About Travel With A Child on the Autism Spectrum. A while back I started a series of posts about travel with special needs but got sidetracked by life. Soon I will be traveling again and thought it might be time to revisit this topic. 1. Pack a [...]

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The Great Big Lego Party

December 12, 2010
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Today is Heidi’s Great Big Lego Party. Download a MS Publisher version of party invitation. The Great Big Lego Party is a shared birthday party with another child from Heidi’s class. You might also remember Heidi’s birthday is in January, as is her classmates – we decided to have the party now so that they [...]

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Christmas With Autism

November 14, 2010

Welcome to the November Teach/Learn Blogging Carnival. The Teach/Learn Blogging Carnival hosted by Science@home is for anyone, because we are all teachers and learners all the time. This month our theme is “Technology and Design”. This is about being able to design or make something to solve a problem. Check out the links at the [...]

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It is okay to blog today

November 7, 2010

because no-one reads blogs on Sunday. So I should be okay. Heidi had her first Prep Transition session on Friday. Since when is my baby old enough to be starting full time mainstream school??? We had prepared her with a social story. We’ve been visiting the school for two years now and Heidi is familiar [...]

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