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Social Stories for Targeting Behaviors and Developing Empathy in Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Innovative Technology-Assisted Intervention
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Author(s): Carol Kahan Kennedy (Fordham University Graduate School of Education, USA), Lakshmi Bhagavatula (St. Christopher's Inc. Jennie Clarkson Campus, USA), Sean Bedford (St. Christopher's Inc. Jennie Clarkson Campus, USA), Reginald Bennett Jr. (St. Christopher's Inc. REACH Academy, USA), Sabine Dorleans (Jewish Child Care Association (JCCA), USA), Judith Halden (St. Christopher's Inc. Jennie Clarkson Campus, USA), Philippe Hoffmann (St. Christopher's Inc. Jennie Clarkson Campus, USA), Janelle Morris (St. Christopher's Inc. Jennie Clarkson Campus, USA), Marylin Perez (St. Christopher's Inc. Jennie Clarkson Campus, USA)and Clementina Porcelli (St. Christopher's Inc. Jennie Clarkson Campus, USA)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 19
Source title:
Scientific Concepts Behind Happiness, Kindness, and Empathy in Contemporary Society
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Nava R. Silton (Marymount Manhattan College, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5918-4.ch012
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Abstract
This chapter contends that working with clinicians who use media technology, adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder can develop social skills that they need to transition to adulthood and gain employment. Developing empathy is a core challenge for these young people because often they have not learned how to understand others' feelings and motives. Technology can provide a faster learning modality, even for developing empathy. For those adolescents showing a natural affinity for technology and media, the clinician engages them in scripting, directing, and starring in their own instructional video that tells them the steps to learning empathy and other social skills the clinician and adolescent have chosen to address in their individual treatment program. For the successful outcome of treatment, the young person learns not only empathy, but also improves other targeted behaviors such as making appropriate conversation. The mixed-method study presented here follows the progress of 16 ASD clients toward self-sufficiency. The clinicians involved present a training model for clinicians in future practice.
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