My Friend is in a Wheelchair Social Story
- Grades
- Not Grade Specific
- Pages
- 15
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Special Education Needs (SEN), Social Skills
- Topic
- Wheelchair awareness, Friendship
- Resource types
- Activities
- Preparation
- Print ready
Product description
From the author
Read a short illustrated social story about a friend who uses a wheelchair. The first-person narrative discusses individual differences, shared activities and ways friends can help one another.
The fifteen-page PDF includes a cover, thirteen story pages and a credits page. Use for guided conversation, asking students to respect each friend’s interests and preferences. Clipart by Kari Bolt.
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In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Place using a wheelchair among the everyday differences between people rather than apart from them
Give the reasons someone might use a wheelchair, from being born needing one to an illness or injury
Offer help where a friend needs it while recognising the help that comes back the other way
Teaching tips
- Read together and discuss shared interests and activities.
- Use the closing pages to explore how help between friends goes both ways.
- Encourage students to ask a friend about their preferences rather than assume what they need.
Skills covered
Understanding difference — the story lists hair, eyes, skin and personality traits before it reaches disability, which places a wheelchair among ordinary differences.
Understanding why a wheelchair is used — two pages discuss being born needing one and needing one because of illness or injury as different routes.
Reciprocal helping — the closing pages pair things the reader can help a friend with against things that friend might help the reader with.
Good to know
Questions teachers ask about this resource
What discussion can follow the story?
Ask students to suggest activities friends can enjoy together and ways they might offer or ask for help, respecting each person’s preferences.
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Concepts & topics
Core concepts
Core concepts
Social story
Disability awareness
Inclusion
Empathy
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