Licking Social Story
- Grades
- Not Grade Specific
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Special Resources, Life Skills
- Topic
- social story, licking
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- Print ready
About this resource
What's inside this resource
Social stories use a patient and reassuring tone to teach children about social situations in a way that can be easily understood. Social stories are particularly useful for children on the autistic spectrum for whom social cues can be challenging and who often suffer anxiety if they do not know what to expect from a situation however social stories can also be useful for any child who is struggling to understand a situation or concept or needs help to understand a social skill or social cue, expectations, perspectives, common responses or is troubled about an upcoming event.
This social story is about licking, explaining to children that certain things are okay to lick but that we should not lick furniture or other people. For autistic children licking can be a self stimulatory, sensory behaviour but obviously if they begin licking other people or licking germ ridden objects this can become an issue.
These books should be used over and over to reinforce the point so I would suggest either putting the pages into a display book or laminating and binding them.
Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt.
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In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Distinguish between objects and situations where licking is socially acceptable and where it is not.
Identify and use an alternative coping strategy (chew toy, snack, or deep breathing) when feeling the urge to lick something inappropriate.
Teaching tips
Read one or two pages at a time rather than the whole story at once, since each page introduces a single new idea in very short text.
Pair the story with the actual coping tools it names — a chew toy, a snack, or a designated quiet space — so the strategies are available immediately after reading.
Revisit the story's closing commitment statement regularly as a check-in rather than treating a single reading as sufficient.
Skills covered
Self-regulation strategy use — the story names three specific alternatives (chew toy, snack/drink, quiet breathing) a student can substitute for licking.
Social boundary recognition — students distinguish acceptable licking (food, envelopes) from unacceptable licking (people, furniture, objects).
Cause-and-effect reasoning — the story explains a direct consequence (germs, illness, upsetting others) for each unacceptable behavior.
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