I Need to Wear Deodorant Social Story
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- Not year specific
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Life Skills, Special Resources
- Topic
- Social Story, Deodorant
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- Print ready
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About 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 designed to support teenagers going through puberty and beginning to need to wear deodorant.
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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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Students can explain why a changing body needs a daily hygiene routine that includes showering and deodorant.
Students can identify applying deodorant as a daily step to complete before getting dressed.
Teaching tips
Choose the boy or girl version to match the student, or use both if introducing the topic to a mixed group.
Laminate and bind the pages, or place them in a display book, since the contributor's own materials note the story is meant to be read repeatedly to reinforce the routine.
Pair the story with an actual demonstration of applying deodorant so the routine described on the page becomes a concrete daily action.
Skills covered
Body-awareness vocabulary — students connect body changes (sweating, hair growth) to the reasons a new hygiene step is needed.
Daily routine sequencing — students learn where deodorant fits in a daily self-care routine, applied before getting dressed.
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Concepts & topics
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Core concepts
Personal hygiene
Puberty
Daily self-care routine
Social story
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