Social Skills Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities: the Effectiveness of Teaching Social Stories and Video Modeling
Social Skills Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities: the Effectiveness of Teaching Social Stories and Video Modeling

Summary/Abstract: This study focused on the use of social stories combined with video modeling to teach appropriate social skills to students with learning disabilities. After surveying parents, 15 students with learning disabilities were given individualized social stories with accompanying videos to target specific social skill deficits. Over a six-week instructional period, students reviewed the social story each morning and watched a correlating video model with an adult teacher or paraprofessional. Twice a week students interacted with typical peers in a structured play setting where the researcher recorded how many interactions took place and how long each interaction lasted. After six-weeks of social skills interventions, students with learning disabilities improved in the number of social interactions with typical peers as well as the length of the interactions. This study reinforces the effectiveness of social stories combined with video modeling for increasing social skills interactions for students with learning disabilities.

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