Joke Telling Social Story & Speech Tool for Android

11 things about Joke Telling Social Story & Speech Tool

1. Studies have found that interventions aimed toward children diagnosed with autism that use jokes or teach humor and laughter can improve social skills and relationships with peers.

2. Humor is a huge part of cognitive and social development, and children with autism tell significantly fewer jokes than their typical peers.

3. Social stories are an important type of visual support often used with children diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome or other special need.

4. This app includes a social story about how and why people tell jokes, and a simple visual/audio support for telling knock knock jokes.

5. Teaching social skills such as joke telling and humor to any child may be easier and less stressful when visual supports, like social stories are used.

6. Humor is especially important for children with autism because studies have shown they often exhibit delays in relating to their peers, in standard cultural conventions and in understanding the emotional states and intentions of others.

7. Certain individuals, particularly those with social or communication delays, like someone diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, may need more direct instruction in this important skill.

8. This social story uses simple text and descriptive pictures to describe why and how you tell a joke.

9. The story focuses on why it’s important to tell people jokes, why a joke is funny, and how you tell a joke.

10. The social story describes why someone tells a joke, how to tell a joke and what makes a joke funny.

11. The skills necessary for joke telling, such as language skills and the ability to connect with others are often found to be lacking in people with autism.