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Social stories with familiar characters have a strong reinforcing capacity to shape appropriate behavior in students with moderate to severe disabilities.

Students would take turns modeling correct social behaviors in various settings, such as holding the classroom door for others to enter, raising their hand to answer a question, standing quietly in the cafeteria line, showing correct ID to enter the school library, waiting for the bus to come to a complete stop before moving toward it on community outings.

Photographs would be uploaded to the computer. Students would then write the text for the social story, using software supports such as word prediction and symbol/text writing. Story pages would be transferred into Power Point Slides.

Completed stories would be shown as a whole class presentation on the Smart Board. The stories would also be printed and bound for individual student reteaching as needed throughout the year.