Social Stories are great implements for helping children. My focus child has several disabilities and issues such as ADHD, Asperger’s Syndrome, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. The story I was telling him encourages him to develop a relationship with other children.
He has no ability to interact with others because he is totally focused on his on tasks. However, he also bounces one center t the next for most of center time. My focus child will begin to play with a toy phone and put it down and walk away after a short time, when his happens another child will pick it up and begin to play with it. Once my focus child notices someone else has the phone he will begin screaming and screaming. He walked toward the other child and grabbed it to yank it away but the other child kept holding it even harder. I stepped in and told my focus child and the other child about “Taking turns”
One kid loved to play basketball. He was shooting the ball into the goal and made it several times for days. One day, a child shot the ball and missed the goal. Another child took the ball and the first child screamed “Hey that is my ball!” The angry child tried to snatch the ball back but the other child was defending himself by keeping the ball. The teacher walked into an angry child and the ball snatcher. The teacher was guiding them by thinking about what can they do to work out the situation. The children thought about the problem and then the ball snatcher had an idea and told him that he would shot the ball and the angry child while take the ball and shoot also. “We can take turns!!” The teacher commended them for working the situation out.
So my focus child decided to tell him he could have the phone and when he was done then he can have the phone back. They learned how to take turns and share the phone. I told them that it was okay to be angry but it was not necessary to shout or be rude to each other. You must recognize the problem, admit it, and remain calm at all times.
It is funny how children can play with a toy, lay it down, and then come back to it 20 minutes later thinking that nobody else is allowed to play with it. In our gym their has been several times that a child will come up to me and say someone took their ball. When they state which child took it,I realize that child has had it the whole time. Sometimes I think children tattle on the others just to get what they want in the long run.
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