The focus of today's class was doing video preparation stories. These video preparation stories are very similar to social stories in that they are used to teach students appropriate behaviors or routines and procedures. Video preparation stories should include descriptive sentences, perspective sentences, and directive sentences. They are always written in the 1st person and present tense. Finally, task analysis must be considered when preparing these stories to ensure all steps are covered. Barbara also informed us about FACTER www.starautismprogram.com
which is a functional skills assessment tool which is good for task analysis. We first prepared a video preparation story on a scenario given to us by Barbara. This required us to video pictures of a student spending too much time in the bathroom looking in the mirror. We then had to upload these pictures into a video and apply text and voice. This was a lot of fun and great learning, especially considering the fact that we had to use the male washroom to do this. Luckily, we had the only male that is in the class in our group. As a group, we now have to complete our next assignment which is to create a video preparation story for a particular student. We discussed a student that one of us is currently working with and decided to produce this story for a male student diagnosed with autism, entering into grade 12 in September and who needs to learn how to fill his car with gas as he just got his driver's permit. So far, we have sketched out the task analysis and should be ready to start taking the pictures tomorrow morning. Another great tool for the tool box.
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