Storymovies DVD: Social Concepts and Skills at School Volume 1
by Carol Gray, Mark Shelley and Attainment Company
Social Stories from Carol Gray come to life!
Carol Gray, author of Social Stories, and Mark Shelley, a video producer, have combined talents to create a training program for children, 8-12 years old, with Asperger’s Syndrome or high-functioning autism.
Storymovies DVD includes 25 video vignettes illustrating social skills and concepts at school, like making mistakes and asking questions.
The 25 movies are organised into the following 6 chapters:
- Practice, mistakes, and learning (including the importance of mistakes in the learning process and staying calm while taking a test)
- Finding a solution (including telling a teacher about a problem and talking to a teacher with respect)
- Working in a small group (including sharing ideas and asking good questions)
- Respect (including an explanation of respect and looking and listening for respect)
- Permission (including an explanation of permission and asking permission from a teacher)
- and Playing a card game (including understanding the concept of luck and the outcomes of winning and losing)
Designed for educators and parents, the Storymovies method is an innovative new strategy that offers opportunities for social learning that are not found in traditional forms of illustration or live contexts.
Each movie features classroom scenes with freeze frames illustrating important social cues. Carefully constructed visuals and clear narration with onscreen text helps children with autism understand the meaning of social situations.
View Guide to Storymovies (256 KB), showing the contents of the DVD.
Click images below to view sample Storymovies.
 Looking and Listening for Respect |
 What is Practice? |
 Thomas Edison, Mistakes and Me |
Includes DVD, 80 minutes and a Guide to Storymovies Booklet.
“Storymovies is a groundbreaking and significant innovation for children with challenges in social skills and social understanding, and their families. Carol Gray and Mark Shelley have combined their deep understanding of the visual learning style of children with social difficulties with the latest in visual arts technology, to develop an engaging and respectful approach to enhancing social skills and understanding in every day activities.” – Barry M. Prizant, Ph.D., CCC-SLP Director, Childhood Communication Services, Adjunct Professor Centre for the Study of Human Development, Brown University, USA
“If one picture is worth a thousand words, Storymovies are worth at least a million!” – DIANE TWACHTMAN-CULLEN, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief, Autism Spectrum Quarterly, Executive Director, ADDCON Centre, LLC
“Exceptionally effective teaching tool to engage students in meaningful social learning…a MUST HAVE in your toolbox.” – LINDA HODGDON, M.Ed., CCC-SLP, Author of Visual Strategies for Improving Communication
Storymovies DVD: Social Concepts and Skills at School Volume 1 is targeted at the following age ranges:
- Mid Primary
- Upper Primary
Storymovies DVD: Social Concepts and Skills at School Volume 1 is designed to foster development in the areas of:
- SOSE
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