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Some children with autism may find it very difficult to control their emotions when they don’t win in a game, quiz, or activity.
Of course, everyone likes to win at games, but it is so much harder for children on the autism spectrum.
Social Stories can help autistic children develop their social skills and handle winning and losing.
Autistic children can learn social skills, and they can get better at these skills with practice.
These ideas and strategies can help you build your child’s social skills:
practice play
praise
role-play
social skills training
social stories
video-modelling
visual supports.
Social Stories need to be customised for each child and should have four types of sentences: descriptive, directive, perspective and affirmative.
It is also important to include visual elements in a social narrative (Social Stories) that is shared with a child with autism. Children with autism have challenges in processing auditory information, but can be strong visual learners.
Social narratives are a proven strategy that works especially well with children with autism.
Here is a social story you can print off and use to ‘talk and teach’ your child to handle losing.
Playing games is fun, but sometimes I lose when playing a game.
It’s ok for me to lose when playing a game sometimes, even if it makes me feel a sad or angry.
I can learn a lot from losing!
If losing makes me feel sad or angry I can learn to use my self-control skills like taking a deep slow breath to feel calmer.
I can also learn to be a good loser or good sport. That means I can be nice to the winner and congratulate them for winning.
I can also learn from losing that I can keep trying. If I keep trying, I might sometimes win!
I am learning to enjoy playing the game whatever the outcome.
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