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Knowledge and Attitudes of Speech Language Pathologists on
Social Story Based Intervention: A Preliminary Study from South India

Dr. Lakshmi. S. Mohan, Ph.D. and
Ms. Veena Mohan P.

Abstract

Social stories are recognized as an intervention strategy for individuals with communication disorders and typically developing children. The proficiency of a professional is determined by three key factors: knowledge, attitude, and practice towards current trends and available resources. The success of any intervention relies on the knowledge and attitude of the professional administering the protocol. Therefore, it is crucial to investigate the knowledge and attitude of speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in utilizing social stories. In India, there are over 3160 registered practicing speech-language pathologists; however, authorized statistics regarding the use of social stories by SLPs are not readily available. The present study aimed to understand the knowledge and attitude of SLPs towards social story-based intervention.

A total of 124 SLPs who are practicing in the field of speech language pathology served as the participants for the study. The study was conducted in three phases: phase I involved the development and validation of a questionnaire to explore the knowledge and attitude of speech language pathologists on social story-based intervention. The items were framed based on a Likert rating scale, yes-no-maybe format and open-ended format. Phase II involved data collection, while phase III involved data analysis. Descriptive statistics were done to derive the frequency and percentage for discrete variables across domains of knowledge and attitude. The present study is an initial attempt to touch upon the fabric of social stories-based intervention delivered by SLPs of India.

The findings of the study revealed that though the attitude of SLPs towards social stories is positive, and yet their knowledge has to be improved. Further, the current study highlights the need to improve the knowledge of SLPs and scope of future research on the practice of social story-based intervention by SLPs.

Keywords: Social story, South India, Autism spectrum disorder, Knowledge, Attitude

Introduction

Stories are fascinating to all generations of listeners, be it a child, grown up adolescent or even elderly population. It takes us to the world of wide imagination and fantasy with an ingrained excitement. With the advent of reformation in information and communication technology, the same leisure activity has risen to the platform of multimedia learning from the very old traditional way of listening to stories around grandmother chairs. Now, the researchers are keener to analyze the story listening activity to understand the benefits of it. This ranges from improving listening comprehension, word knowledge, imitations and inherent happiness of sharing the stories etc. It is a platform for promoting various learning approaches such as incidental learning, gestalt learning, and of course with the assistance of technology, multimedia learning also. Further, rehabilitative professionals, specifically Speech-Language pathologists, are using storytelling as a language building activity on their intervention of children with various communication disorders. From their perspective, shared book reading leans on the stories to improve the language abilities of children. Another practice of using stories to improve social skills of children is called social reading approaches, where the stories are labeled as social stories.

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Dr. Lakshmi. S. Mohan, Ph.D. and Ms. Veena Mohan P.
Senior Lecturer/Speech Language Pathologist
Department of Neurodevelopmental Sciences
National Institute of Speech and Hearing
Trivandrum
Kerala, India
lakshmis@nish.ac.in
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