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Wright B, Marshall D, Adamson J, et al. Social Stories™ to alleviate challenging behaviour and social difficulties exhibited by children with autism spectrum disorder in mainstream schools: design of a manualised training toolkit and feasibility study for a cluster randomised controlled trial with nested qualitative and cost-effectiveness components. Southampton (UK): NIHR Journals Library; 2016 Jan. (Health Technology Assessment, No. 20.6.)

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Social Stories™ to alleviate challenging behaviour and social difficulties exhibited by children with autism spectrum disorder in mainstream schools: design of a manualised training toolkit and feasibility study for a cluster randomised controlled trial with nested qualitative and cost-effectiveness components.

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Appendix 4Landscape interview topic guides

What are Social Stories?

Describe as neatly and succinctly as you can what Social Stories are:

  • When I say Social Stories what does that mean to you?
  • Can you describe for a complete outsider what is a Social Story?

Can you suggest what the main reasons for using Social Stories are?

  • What are the benefits of Social Stories? What are the negative aspects?

Your involvement in Social Stories

When did you get involved with using Social Stories? Why did you get involved?

Best use for Social Stories

In your experience, are there particular behaviours that are more suited to using Social Stories?

  • How do you know if a Social Story works?

Can you suggest the best ways we can involve children in the process of understanding how Social Stories work?

Can you suggest the best approaches to collecting information?

How do we monitor when things go wrong with Social Stories?

Best practice for developing Social Stories

What are the rules associated with developing Social Stories?

How closely do you follow the rules when you are developing your own Social Stories?

  • Have the rules (or main concepts/criteria) of Social Stories changed?

Which factors would you consider to be acceptable and unacceptable within Social Stories?

Developing the manual

What basic information would you provide to a novice for using Social Stories?

  • What would be the most important things that you could include within a basic manual on Social Stories?
  • Tell me how you envisage the manual looking

Would a manual be sufficient in itself?

  • What type of training do you think people will need to be able to use Social Stories?

Choosing the focus of the story

In general how do you go about choosing the focus of the story?

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