The RoboSteamSen project (2023-1-ES01-KA220-SCH-000155379) is co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA).

Infinitas Historias

Typology
Technological, Methodological
Resource description
Infinite Stories is an iOS and Android application that allows users to create, view, and animate active, customizable, and interactive digital social stories.
https://infinitashistorias.es/

This tool supports intervention efforts by fostering social skills, creativity, and planning.

The main aspects covered by the application include:
- Social skills and conflict resolution.
- Anticipation and understanding of everyday situations.
- Learning guidelines.
- Identifying the causes of a problem.
- Help overcome anxiety, frustration, and stress.
- Support the expression of emotions and the recognition of others' emotions.
- Reinforce positive aspects of everyday situations.
- Improve social skills through activities and real-life experiences.
- Help understand complex contexts by learning to respond to different situations and generalizing knowledge.
- Stimulate storytelling skills, fostering the initiative to share lived or imagined experiences (creativity).
- Develop pragmatic language skills.
- Train Theory of Mind and false belief understanding.
- Personalize stories to adapt to the user’s age, needs, interests, learning pace, interaction style, emotions, and vocabulary.

Sample of use in education with students with IDD
Support students in acquiring and understanding the use of a new resource, engaging in interactive play with peers, and developing planning strategies.

Implementation Steps:
1- Introducing the Classroom Routine: Use Infinite Stories to create an animated social story outlining the sequence of activities in the robotics class.
2- Presenting the Use of a New Resource: Develop a personalized digital story explaining how to use a new robotic tool or coding software.
3- Encouraging Play and Social Interaction: Allow students to explore the resource through the app by interacting with animated scenarios that model turn-taking, collaboration, and problem-solving.
4- Teaching Planning Strategies: Create an interactive storyboard where students plan their project by choosing components, setting goals, and organizing steps.
Offer multiple paths within the story to encourage decision-making and problem-solving.
5- Offering Alternatives and Analyzing Consequences: Design branching storylines where students can choose different approaches to solve a challenge (e.g., using one type of sensor versus another in their robot).
Discuss the outcomes of each choice and reflect on what worked best.
Difficulties to which it could be applied
Social Communication Challenges
  • Cooperative Interaction
  • Adjusting behavior to suit various social contexts
  • Understanding social norms and rules
  • Understanding facial expressions or body language
  • Solitary Activities and Limited Engagement in meetings
  • Interaction with peers
  • Non-interactive play
  • Misinterpretation of social situations and intentions
  • Inappropriate social behavior
  • Sharing imaginative play
Repetitive Behaviors and Restricted Interests, Specialized Skills and Talents, Executive Functioning and Flexibility
  • Fixed Interest
Sensory Processing and Sensitivities
  • Sensory-perceptual self-stimulation behaviors
  • Sensory overload
  • Sensory Information Management
  • Hyporesponsiveness (se podria juntar con Hiper)
  • Hyper-responsiveness
  • Discomfort sensory-rich environments
  • Coordination and/or odd movements pattern
  • Atypical response to sensory stimuli
Repetitive Behaviors and Restricted Interests, Sensory Processing and Sensitivities
  • Specific sensory preferences
Learning and Cognitive Challenges
  • Multiple grammatical or punctuation errors
  • Difficulty in applying steps to solve maths problems
  • Difficulty identifying the correct operation to use
  • Trouble understanding math problems
  • Trouble recalling basic math facts or applying math rules in daily tasks
  • Difficulty grasping abstract concepts like fractions
  • Struggles with counting sequences (finger counting) and simple operations
  • Difficulty understanding place value
  • Written expression lacks clarity
  • Poor paragraph organization
  • Reading comprehension (sequence, relationship, inferences or deeper meanings)
  • Recognizing words that rhyme
  • add, omit or substitute vowels or consonants
  • Sounding out words
  • Frequently guesses words while reading
  • Inaccurate or slow and effortful reading
  • Difficulty connecting letters with the sounds
  • Reading, writing or maths challenges
  • Individualized learning strategies accommodations
  • Cognitive Abilities
Repetitive Behaviors and Restricted Interests, Specialized Skills and Talents
  • Memory and attention to detail
  • Intense focus
Social Communication Challenges, Emotional Regulation
  • Sharing of interests, emotions, or affect
Emotional Regulation, Social Communication Challenges
  • Limited language use
  • Use of nonverbal cues
  • Problems initiating and maintaining conversations
  • Pragmatic language skills
  • Literal interpretation of language and abstractions
  • Lack of answer
  • Delayed development or unusual speech patterns
  • Making/Keeping friends
  • Expressing Feelings
  • Eye contact during conversations
Executive Functioning and Flexibility
  • Stand up at the class
  • Short attention span
  • Seeing things from different perspectives
  • Managing transition and adaption to changes and new situations
  • Careless mistakes in schoolwork
  • Unable to play quietly
  • Forgetful or losing things
Emotional Regulation, Executive Functioning and Flexibility
  • Avoidance behavior or meltdowns
Emotional Regulation
  • Understanding Emotions
  • Regulating Emotions
  • Harmful activities
  • Anxiety
Executive Functioning and Flexibility, Repetitive Behaviors and Restricted Interests
  • Mental rigidity, need to follow routines
  • Talks excessively
  • Repetitive behavior
  • Impulsiveness
Repetitive Behaviors and Restricted Interests
  • Specialized skills or talents
  • Repetitive movements
Executive Functioning and Flexibility, Repetitive Behaviors and Restricted Interests, Specialized Skills and Talents
  • Intense attachment to objects or activities
Executive Functioning and Flexibility, Learning and Cognitive Challenges
  • Unability to stick to tedious tasks
  • Unability to follow instructions and rules
  • Time management
  • Sharing a common focus
  • Organization and planning of tasks and activities
  • Constant changing activity or task
Learning Objetives
  • Organization of space
  • Learning competences
  • Learning Engineering concepts
  • Learning Maths concepts
  • Learning Science concepts
  • Learning Technology concepts
  • Listening competences
  • Memory improvement
  • Organization of class structure
  • Learning breathing and relaxation techniques
  • Organization of time
  • Practical competences
  • Promote reading comprehension
  • Promote self-management
  • Promoting Flexibility and Adaptability
  • Regulating hyperactivity
  • Regulating impulsivity
  • Cognitive and Behavioral Flexibility
  • Learning Arts concepts
  • Improving Social Communication Skills
  • Improving metacognition (learning to learn)
  • Improving knowledge application
  • Improving Attention and focus
  • Improve Restricted Interests and Repetitive Behaviors
  • Facilitating Peer Interaction and Social Interaction Skills
  • Executive functions
  • Strategies for Effective Studying
  • Enhancing Sensory Regulation Strategies
  • Enhancing Language Skills
  • Engage in abstract thinking and Symbolic Though
  • Emphasize self-reliance
  • Distinguising Meaningful contents
  • Develop functional writing skills