This article describes the use of social-story intervention programs to teach appropriate social behavior to 3 children with autism. The procedures used in these interventions combined social-story methodology with a more traditional behavioral social-skills training strategy. Procedures and suggestions for successfully developing, implementing, and evaluating social-story intervention programs are also provided.
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