Inclusive Classroom Case Study

I am a preschool teacher who has been teaching in an inclusive classroom in Tondo, Manila for 5 years now. Inclusion or inclusive class is one of the programs of Department of Education where a regular class can have 1-2 special children and for this, even regular preschool teacher like me is handling children with special needs. Over the years, I have handled different cases such as Emotional Behavioral Disorder, Global Developmental Delay and Autism Spectrum Disorder. The most prevalent case I’ve handled was Autism Spectrum Disorder .
According to DSM-5 “Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder have persistent deficit in social communication and social interaction across multiple context as manifested by deficits in social-emotional reciprocity,

One of these is a social story which is a short story written tailored for a individual and crafted from a child’s point of view which explains challenging social situations through pictures and text (Gray, 1998). Social Stories which make difficult concept to simple words can address the impaired ability of children with autism to understand behaviors of others based on their belief, feelings and knowledge (Baron- Cohen et al. 2005). It can also address their difficulty in deriving general meaning from perspective and tendency to focus on irrelevant details( Happe, 2005) as it explains meaning of social situation while emphasizing relevant details.. Children with ASD are known to be visual learner which makes social stories an intervention that may have positive effects on their social and communication deficits. As such, this research will explore on the effectiveness of Social Stories with Real Pictures combined with Video Modeling in addressing deficits in Social Communication Skills of Children with Mild

They have different degree of severity and different stereotypical behaviors but based on my observations what’s common among them was they have deficits on their social and communication skills which hinder them in interacting with other children that made them socially isolated. This study aims to determine the effects of Social Stories with Real Pictures combined with Video Modeling as intervention in improving the Social Communication Skills 3 children with Mild Autism in preschool level. This specifically answers the following questions:
1. Is social stories with real pictures combined with video modeling an effective intervention in addressing social communication deficits of children with Mild Autism
2. What is the degree of effectiveness of this intervention in improving social communication skills of Filipino children with Mild Autism?
3. In which of the following social communication skills the intervention have most positive effect? least positive effect?
a. Greeting
b. Initiating in a conversation
c. Responding in a