Comic Strip Conversations: Illustrated interactions that teach conversation skills to students with autism and related disorders: Improving social ... and other developmental disabilities

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This worked well, but unfortunately this book does not give anything pre written conversation strategies. Social stories present information in a literal, 'concrete' way, which may improve a person's understanding of a previously difficult or ambiguous situation or activity. Comic strip conversations are visual representations of the different levels of communication that happen in a conversation.

Comic strip conversations use symbols to represent social interactions and abstract aspects of conversation, and colour to represent the emotional content of a statement or message (Gray, 1994).Comic strip conversations, created by Carol Gray, are simple visual representations of conversation. Comic strip conversations can be used to increase social understanding in young people and adults on the higher functioning end of the autism spectrum.

Comic strip conversations use stick figures and symbols to represent social interactions and abstract aspects of conversation, and colour to represent the emotional content of a statement or message. Carol is the director of The Gray Center for Social Learning and Understanding, a non-profit organization that serves people with ASD, and currently works privately with students, parents, and professionals in a variety of educational and vocational settings. Carol initiated the use of Social Stories in 1991 and has written numerous articles, chapters, and books on the subject. Guidelines on introducing and using social stories effectively, so that they produce the benefits you intend. By seeing the different elements of a conversation presented visually, some of the more abstract aspects of social communication (such as recognising the feelings of others) are made more 'concrete' and are therefore easier to understand.

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Gather information about the person including their age, interests, attention span, level of ability and understanding. Comic strip conversations can help autistic people understand concepts that they find particularly difficult. If it is for a situation where a particular outcome is not guaranteed, use words like ‘sometimes’ and ‘usually’ in the story. You can use just paper, pencils, crayons and markers, computer word processing applications, or you could use an app.In a comic strip conversation, the autistic person takes the lead role, with parents, carers or teachers offering support and guidance. Figure 4 (below) shows some 'conversation colours' that could be used to represent a range of feelings and ideas. Showing what people are thinking reinforces that others have independent thoughts a concept spectrum children don t intuitively understand. Comic strip conversations can also offer an insight into how an autistic person perceives a situation.