You are very welcome.
natesmom wrote:
Perhaps I can use those trees to form a social story as well.
If I understand what is meant by 'social story' correctly, a well-designed decision-making logic tree about a social situation could be used to generate several different related social-stories semi-randomly. The one I posted generates several stories about equipment failure, if you are just playing with it and imagine up or randomly generate the specifics of the situation to allow you to make the yes/no decisions. Kind of like one of those old 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books, but instead of just deciding, you look at something and are instructed to do this or that according to its state, and you cannot lose if you proceed by the rules and your observations are correct.
That's what I meant about the hop-scotch game. For every 'yes or no' junction on the tree, you'd flip a coin. If you compact the tree by using more than two options, you'd roll dice. Or make it harder by having somebody act out or describe imagined details of the imagined situation, making the player choose based on this performance (alas, introducing the possibility of incorrect observation leading to wrong choices and a failure that the tree can't mark) before he hops.
I now envision this as a game you buy in a box, with several social-situation logic trees inside, printed on big sheets of tyvek with corner grommets so you can tack them down to the lawn with tent-pegs, then flip coins, roll dice or act things out and hop around. If you make trees that please Nate and are widely regarded as functional by socially adroit people, I'm sure I'd like to see them and muse further upon this possibility.
22 Sep 2008, 9:05 am
