Fingeryeyes; Social Scripts; Flow (Three Poems Exploring Digital Affect)

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-144
Author(s):  
Susan Wardell
Keyword(s):  
Social Scripts

Teaching Social Scripts to Improve Social Communication for Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder

2021 ◽  
pp. 004005992110220
Author(s):  
Gretchen Scheibel ◽  
Zijie Ma ◽  
Jason C. Travers
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Challenging Behaviors ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Academic Difficulties ◽  
Evidence Based Practices ◽  
Social Scripts ◽  
Students With Autism

Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder are likely to demonstrate social impairments that contribute to challenging behaviors and academic difficulties. As a result, the task of improving social communication skills is a critical component to any educational program for this population. Scripting provides an evidence-based and versatile option for improving social communication, yielding valuable results while requiring limited time and resource preparation from educators. In this article, we present step by step guidance to support practitioners in using scripting interventions. Considerations are discussed for adapting this intervention to meet the needs of students across the autism spectrum and links to resources for strengthening implementation and including other evidence-based practices.

Critical Approaches to Motherhood

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Noel Mack
Keyword(s):  
Social Institution ◽  
Sexual Scripts ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
Social Scripts ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Political Traditions ◽  
Individual Role

Motherhood is not an inconsequential and ideologically neutral individual role in society. Instead, “motherhood” is considered, according to critical and cultural scholars and theorists, to be both a complex set of experiences individuals embody and a symbolic social institution that has been used to regulate human behavior through cultural norms and social scripts that are discursively struggled over across history. The institution of motherhood is imbedded in cultural, economic, and legal systems and is a central consideration in how we come to define the domestic and public spheres. Black feminist, liberal feminist, radical feminist, Marxist, queer, postcolonial, and decolonial theories are mobilized by critics in communication to investigate motherhood as a complex symbolic interlocutor. Critical scholars from these divergent theoretical and political traditions analyze motherhood as an experience, a practice, a performance, and/or an ideology. Because of the importance of the concept of mothering in society, examining discourses about motherhood is a central concern for critical and cultural communication scholars who are interested in the formation of gender and sexual scripts and the maintenance of racial and class-based systems of oppression.

"Do I Know What I Need to Do?" A Social Communication Intervention for Children With Complex Clinical Profiles

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geralyn R. Timler ◽  
Lesley B. Olswang ◽  
Truman E. Coggins
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Treatment Phase ◽  
Communication Intervention ◽  
Social Scripts ◽  
Treatment Data ◽  
Social Communication Intervention ◽  
Clinical Profiles

Purpose:Speech-language pathologists frequently address social communication difficulties in children with diverse clinical profiles. The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility of a social communication intervention for a school-age child with a complex cognitive and behavioral profile secondary to diagnosis of a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.Method:A case study is presented to describe the implementation of the intervention targeting mental state verb production and social cognitive skills. The intervention included group role play of social scripts and a checklist to elicit the participant’s statements about others’ perspectives and strategies for completing the social script. Treatment data monitored the participant’s responses to the checklist questions. Probe sessions, consisting of theory of mind false belief tasks, were used to examine mental state verb use.Results:Treatment data demonstrated that the participant stated more strategies in response to checklist questions. The participant did not produce any mental state verbs during baseline probes, but did produce mental state verbs during the treatment phase.Clinical Implications:The results support use of this intervention to change children’s linguistic and social cognitive skills. Suggestions for extending this intervention to include a generalization plan targeting classroom social communication interactions are provided.

scholarly journals The Role of the Cerebellum in Social and Non-Social Action Sequences: A Preliminary LF-rTMS Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elien Heleven ◽  
Kim van Dun ◽  
Sara De Witte ◽  
Chris Baeken ◽  
Frank Van Overwalle
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Sequence Generation ◽  
Social Scripts ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Sequence Types ◽  
Sequencing Task

An increasing number of studies demonstrated the involvement of the cerebellum in (social) sequence processing. The current preliminary study is the first to investigate the causal involvement of the cerebellum in sequence generation, using low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (LF-rTMS). By targeting the posterior cerebellum, we hypothesized that the induced neuro-excitability modulation would lead to altered performance on a Picture and Story sequencing task, which involve the generation of the correct chronological order of various social and non-social stories depicted in cartoons or sentences. Our results indicate that participants receiving LF-rTMS over the cerebellum, as compared to sham participants, showed a stronger learning effect from pre to post stimulation for both tasks and for all types of sequences (i.e. mechanical, social scripts, false belief, true belief). No differences between sequence types were observed. Our results suggest a positive effect of LF-rTMS on sequence generation. We conclude that the cerebellum is causally involved in the generation of sequences of social and nonsocial events. Our discussion focuses on recommendations for future studies.

scholarly journals Gender fluidity as affordance negotiation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahault Albarracin ◽  
Pierre Poirier
Keyword(s):  
Prediction Error ◽  
Probabilistic Models ◽  
Predictive Processing ◽  
Gender Fluidity ◽  
Social Scripts ◽  
Sensorimotor Interaction ◽  
Binary State ◽  
Gender Scripts ◽  
Cultural Niche ◽  
The Brain

Gender is often viewed as static binary state for people to embody, based on the sex they were assigned at birth. However, cultural studies increasingly understand gender as neither binary nor static, a view supported both in psychology and sociology. On this view, gender is negotiated between individuals, and highly dependent on context. Specifically, individuals are thought to be offered culturally gendered social scripts that allow them and their interlocutors the ability to predict future actions, and to understand the scene being set, establishing roles and expectations. We propose to understand scripts in the framework of enactive-ecological predictivism, which integrates aspects of ecological enactivism, notably the importance of dynamical sensorimotor interaction with an environment conceived as a field of affordances, and predictive processing, which views the brain as a predictive engine that builds its probabilistic models in an effort to reduce prediction error. Under this view, script-based negotiation can be linked to the enactive neuroscience concept of a cultural niche, as a landscape of cultural affordances. Affordances are possibilities for action that constrain what actions are pre-reflectively felt possible based on biological, experiential and cultural multisensorial cues. With the shifting landscapes of cultural affordances brought about by a number of recent social, technological and epistemic developments, the gender scripts offered to individuals are less culturally rigid, which translates in an increase in the variety of affordance fields each individual can negotiate. This entails that any individual has an increased possibility for gender fluidity, as shown by the increasing number of people currently identifying outside the binary.

scholarly journals Girls’ Night Out: The Role of Women-Centered Friendship Groups in University Hookup Culture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Andrejek
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Friendship Groups ◽  
Friendship Group ◽  
Undergraduate Women ◽  
Social Scripts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Hookup Culture ◽  
Potential Risks ◽  
Group Interviews

There is a wealth of research that has addressed gender dynamics in hookup culture. Drawing on focus group interviews with undergraduate women at a mid-sized university in Canada, I examine the shared rituals, practices, and perceived risks within women-centered friendship groups during a typical “girls’ night out.” I confirm that undergraduate women experience many potential risks to their safety and well-being as they navigate the hookup scene and interact with undergraduate men. To try to mitigate those risks and attempt to enjoy their nights out, I find that undergraduate women spend significant portions of their evenings dedicated to women-centered bonding rituals and partying. I show that undergraduate women engage in gendered strategies within their friendship group to have fun, connect with desirable hookup partners, and try to keep their friends safe. By expanding the social scripts of their nights out in hookup culture, I show the types of gender selves that are produced within women-centered friendship groups and reveal the importance of women-centered friendship groups to the maintenance of hookup culture itself.

scholarly journals Who is worthy of help? Constructing the stereotype of the “ideal victim” of child sexual abuse

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Eelmaa ◽  
Maria Murumaa-Mengel
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Social Constructions ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Social Scripts ◽  
Victim Status ◽  
Qualitative Thematic Analysis ◽  
Sexual Abuse Victims ◽  
The Ideal

The stereotype of the “ideal victim” often determines who is considered deserving of victim status, especially in sexual violence cases. In this Chapter, we explore how is the so-called “ideal victim” stereotype constructed and what are the elements necessary for the perception of “ideal victimhood.” We use empirical data from an unmoderated anonymous Estonian online forum that hosts various topic threads from children and young people, including posts about personally experienced sexual violence (N=28) and replies to these posts (N=361). The data was analyzed by combining a discursive psychological approach with qualitative thematic analysis. Results reveal and illustrate how the stereotype is constructed from various elements and characteristics of social scripts, perceived gender roles, and misconceptions about sexuality. We unveil how these social constructions affect responses and attitudes towards sexual abuse victims to provide input for designing prevention efforts that support disclosure and help-seeking.

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