Use visual supports, role playing, and social narratives to teach internet safety to adolescents with ASD¶

Strategy · All strategies
Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

The brief recommends three teaching approaches for parents and school staff: visual supports such as checklists of internet dos and don'ts and lists of acceptable websites; role playing multiple internet safety scenarios followed by discussion of why they are safe or unsafe; and social narratives, scripts, or social stories that describe an internet safety scenario in story form. These "can help to reinforce ideas about how to stay safe while using the internet."

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• An adult to prepare the supports and debrief scenarios with the teen

Constraints¶

• Presented as practitioner suggestions without evaluation data

Target Learners¶

• Adolescents with autism spectrum disorder

Target Learning Goals¶

• Recognizing unsafe online situations and responding safely

Related Strategies¶

• Use the PLAY IT SAFE acronym to teach internet safety rules to teens with ASD

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Clinard, A. (2016, February). Internet Safety for Teens with ASD (Autism at-a-Glance Brief). Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, CSESA Development Team. https://csesa.fpg.unc.edu/