Journal article
A scoping review of musically augmented social stories as a strategy for work with people with autism
Global Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, Vol.7(3), p.555715
2021
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Abstract
Introduction Carol Gray introduced social stories as an intervention to work with people with autism in the early 1990's [1-3]. Social stories are short visually augmented stories designed to provide a complete chunk of social information that includes a clear description of context, perspective statements of those involved that describe the typically attributed qualities of motivation and changes of feeling related to action, description of possible actions and ways to navigate the situation, cooperation sentences that identify the help that can/will be provided by others and control statements that relate how the story can be recalled and pulled into action [4]. Gray provided a description of not only the types of sentences to be included, but also the suggested ratio of no more than one directive sentence to every two of the other sentence types, to prevent the story becoming merely a to-do list [4]. Social stories have been readily adopted as they fit with the underlying thinking and information processing style characteristic of people with autism [5] and the ease of implementation and the unobtrusiveness of the intervention [6]. While the behavioural symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are impaired social communication and restricted and repetitive interests, activities and behaviors [7] in terms of psychotherapy the more informative difference between an autistic style of thinking and the neurotypical thinking is the underlying cognitive processing triad of impairment/difference [8]. The potent combination of impaired/reduced theory of mind, impaired linguistic processing with a relative strength in visual processing and impaired abstraction underpins the behavioural traits of ASD. Social stories provide a complete chunk of visually augmented information Abstract Background: Social stories have been used as an intervention strategy in work with people with autism since the early 1990's. Social stories have been used as a standalone intervention, and as an element incorporated in psychotherapy, by specialist child and adolescent mental health and disability nurses. The evidence base for the efficacy of social stories has progressively grown and can be stated as supporting ongoing use. While the use of music to increase the level of fun of, and recruit participants into being active agents in, the intervention makes sense no reviews were identified to inform judgment of the state of evidence related to the use of musically augmented social stories.
Details
- Title
- A scoping review of musically augmented social stories as a strategy for work with people with autism
- Creators
- Andrew Cashin (Author) - Southern Cross University, School of Health and Human Sciences
- Publication Details
- Global Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, Vol.7(3), p.555715
- Publisher
- Juniper Publishers Inc.
- Identifiers
- 991012911800002368
- Academic Unit
- Nursing; School of Health and Human Sciences; Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article