The use of Social Stories as a preventative Behavioural Intervention in a home Setting with a Child with Autism

P. A. Lorimer, R. Simpson, B. Smith-Myles an Jennifer B. Ganz, Journal of Positive Behaviour Interventions, Winter 2002, Volume 4, Pages 53 - 60.

The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of a social story intervention implemented in a home setting to decrease precursors to tantrum behaviour in a 5-year-old boy with autism. Using an ABAB design, two social stories were presented and withdrawn while using an event recording procedure in which interrupting verbalisations, determined to be precursors to tantrum behaviour, were tallied. Data revealed a decrease in interrupting verbalisations and tantrums when the social stories were available and an increase in these behaviours when the social stories were withdrawn.