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Create a social story

Social stories help children with additional needs to develop a greater social understanding of how the world around them works, and help them stay safe.

Family Fund will help you learn how to create a simple visual tool to help a young persons understanding and help them feel more comfortable with new situations and places.

What you’ll need

To create your own social story, you will need to create a FREE account for Canva – an online piece of software or app that can be used on any phone, tablet or computer.

Join an online workshop

Family Fund also hold a series of online workshops, where an experienced trainer will talk you through what a social story is and how to create one within Canva.

These are very friendly and informal, designed for parents and carers of disabled children. You’ll need a device to access the internet to take part in workshop activities, and to get the most out of this session, joining the call on a second device such as a smart phone, tablet or computer would really help.

Sign up for a workshop

Are you a professional rather than parent or carer?

Whilst our resources have been created with parents and carers in mind, we welcome everyone to use these videos if they can help you in the workplace.

If you’d like to discuss further any way that Family Fund could support you in the workplace, get in touch with our friendly team on: [email protected]

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Family Fund offer a variety of different online workshops designed for families supporting a child with disabilities or additional needs.
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