Helping People with Autism overcome
Social Deficits

For example: Many children on the autism spectrum find hygiene skills such as brushing their teeth difficult some even find this necessary hygiene task painful! There is NO magic wand, but there ARE treatments for autism which can help show/explain to your child the need for good dental hygiene, and help them to feel more comfortable with this task. They may have a sensitive mouth (sensory processing issues) or simply NOT understand the need for good dental hygiene, either way support is what is needed. Many parents try Autism Social Skills Stories to help overcome hygiene issues.

Autism Social Stories for Hygiene

"The social story USES visual images and small pieces of text to describe the skill or situation in a manner the child with autism CAN better understand, breaking the skill into smaller easier to comprehend steps."

Social skills stories answer the "wh" questions - who, what, where, when and why as well as "HOW" and will offer an insight into the thoughts, feelings and emotions of others which is an area of marked weakness in most individuals with autism.

Social stories ARE Visual Intervention Strategies which CAN BE implemented easily as a POWERFUL AID that CAN be used to help ALL children with autism learn self-help skills and promote good hygiene habits in autism

The social skills story is normally written in first person text, from the autistic persons point of view and will normally follow a set pattern of sentence type.

This collection of 20 Autism social stories for teaching hygiene skills in autism ARE all written in word format because no two individuals with autism are ever the same and we ALL use different terminology, therfore being able to edit and personalize your social stories should be made easy.