Saturday, December 3, 2011

Social Scripts

Obviously with a show we will use scripts. Scripts of social situations are actually used with children with autism to understand social cues and specific behavior during a situation. Because children with autism have trouble understanding others ideas and motivations in social situations, social scripts are used to make a person more comfortable in a situation.

These scripts are used to give people a better perspective of reactions. It also provides appropriate responses. Social Scripts are written in first-person, present-tense. They use descriptive sentences to provide who, when, where, and why a person is doing a certain action. Perspective sentences provide the emotions and thoughts behind an action, directive sentences give appropriate responces, and control sentences are used to help remember the script. These can be presented in writing, on tape, on film, or illustrated.

Here is a link to some sample social scripts

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