Takes autistic children step by step through everyday activities.

Different social stories to help teach children with autism everyday social skills.

Takes autistic children step by step through such activities as using the toilet, brushing their teeth, and wearing a safety belt in the car.

"Over 180 social stories that teach everyday social skills to children and young adults with autism or Asperger's syndrome, and their peers"--Page [1] of cover.

Describes in pictures the proper responses to real-life situations that youth with social communication challenges face on a daily basis.

Because of its unique focus on teaching the critical social skills that autistic children lack, this book has been cited by "Library Journal" as "Essential to All Collections."

Carol Gray combines stick-figures with "conversation symbols" to illustrate what people say and think during conversations. Showing what people are thinking reinforces that others have independent thoughts--a concept that spectrum children don't intuitively understand. Children can also recognize that, although people say one thing, they may think something quite different--another concept foreign to "concrete-thinking" children. Children can draw their own "comic strips" to show what they are thinking and feeling about events or people. Different colors can represent different states of mind. These deceptively simple comic strips can reveal as well as convey quite a lot of substantive information. The author delves into topics such as: What is a Comic Strip Conversation? The Comic Strip Symbols Dictionary Drawing "small talk" Drawing about a given situation Drawing about an upcoming situation Feelings and COLOR