Using Social Stories To Ease Childrens Transition Analysis

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This article is titled “Using Social Stories to Ease Children’s Transitions”, and discusses how social stories help autistic children, specifically two young toddlers named Patrick and Luke. Early on, the article talks about the difficulties of a movement from regular life, to a school life for toddlers, and then quickly moves on to the usefulness of social stories as an aid. The article then discusses how social stories are made, and the reason they were initially created.
From this point on, the article goes one to talk about the necessary steps in the creation of a social story, as well as the limitations that allow more wiggle room for each individual child. After that it discusses how one of the aforementioned toddlers, Patrick, was introduced

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