Comic Strip Conversations: Colorful, Illustrated Interactions with Students with Autism and Related Disorders
Carol Gray combines stick-figures with "conversation symbols" to illustrate what people say and think during conversations. Showing what people are thinking reinforces that others have independent thoughts - a concept spectrum children don't intuitively understand. Children can also recognize that, although people say one thing, they may think something quite different - another concept foreign to "concrete-thinking" children. Children can draw their own "comic strips" to show what they are...
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Carol Gray combines stick-figures with "conversation symbols" to illustrate what people say and think during conversations. Showing what people are thinking reinforces that others have independent thoughts - a concept spectrum children don't intuitively understand. Children can also recognize that, although people say one thing, they may think something quite different - another concept foreign to "concrete-thinking" children. Children can draw their own "comic strips" to show what they are thinking and feeling about events or people. Different colors can represent different states of mind. These deceptively simple comic strips can reveal as well as convey quite a lot of substantive information.
Acknowledgements What is a Comic Strip Conversation?\ The Comic Strip Symbols Dictionary Drawing “small talk"\ Drawing about a given situation Drawing about an upcoming situation Feelings and COLOR Appendix A: The Comic Strip Symbols Dictionary Appendix B: Conversation Symbols and Working Definitions Study Cards Appendix C: The COLOR Chart\
