Social narratives: a recognized EBP · NPDC 2014

Your students deserve more than a stick figure with their name on it.

Tinyverse generates fully illustrated, personalized social stories featuring each child's actual photo, individualized the way Gray's criteria describe. Built for BCBAs, school counselors, and SPED teams.

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⭐ Social narratives: a recognized EBP · NPDC 2014

🔒 FERPA · COPPA

⚡ 3 min per story

📋 Gray-Complete

🖨 Hardcover Print

1 photo

Consistent Character, Every Page

3 min

Per Story

EBP

NPDC 2014

The Problem

Hand-built social stories rarely picture the individual child, because individualized illustration was impractical to do at scale. That is the gap Tinyverse closes.

⚠ What Gray's framework describes

"Narratives consisting of personalised text and illustrations written from the student's perspective."— Gray & Garand (1993) · Gray (2010, 2015) · Original Social Stories™ Definition

Gray's original definition describes personalized text and illustration. Individualizing the illustration to the specific child has been the hard part to do at scale, which is why most hand-built versions fall back on generic clip art.

Creating a story manually

20–45

minutes per student

Find clip art. Write text. Format pages. Customize for each child. For a caseload of 30, that's up to 22 hours of story creation — every cycle.

With Tinyverse

minutes · fully illustrated

Photo → illustrated character → personalized story. Every page unique to the child who will read it.

→ 45 minutes down to 3, practitioner-reported

What most teams are missing

✕Practitioner-reported: one RBT at Northshore School District spent roughly 45 minutes hand-building a single visual support, then asked for the tool
✕Generic clip art fails to create the familiar visual context that drives comprehension
✕ChatGPT attempts produce inconsistent characters — students don't recognize themselves
✕No visual consistency across a caseload of 30+
✕Manual creation crowds out direct student time

What Tinyverse completes

We're not introducing a new intervention. We complete the framework you already use, illustrated and personalized, built on the social-narrative practice your team already relies on.

✓Child's actual photo generates a consistent illustrated character across every story
✓First-person perspective built-in — Gray's core criterion encoded in the AI
✓ABA reinforcement language field ("When you use words, you earn…")
✓77 prompt templates: transitions, protesting, recess, bathroom, asking for help
✓Read-aloud mode — device-preferred by autistic learners (Bouck et al., 2014)

30 Years of Research

Most districts are leaving these gains on the table.

Social narratives have a substantial peer-reviewed base and are a recognized EBP. The persistent gap has been implementation, specifically individualized illustration at scale.

Teacher Acceptability

100%

of surveyed teachers rated social stories an acceptable classroom intervention

Chan & O'Reilly (2008)

Teacher-Rated Effectiveness

95%

of surveyed teachers rated them effective

Chan & O'Reilly (2008)

Fear Reduction

89%

clinically significant fear reduction in personalized bibliotherapy studies

Lewis et al. (2015, 2021)

Time Back

45 → 3

minutes per story, hand-built vs Tinyverse, practitioner-reported

Northshore School District pilot

Social Stories™

Gray

First-person, individualized text, and illustrations — Gray's own criteria encoded directly into every AI generation.

Bibliotherapy

Shrodes

Identification → Catharsis → Insight → Universalization. Every story arc follows the therapeutic sequence.

Emotion Coaching

Gottman

Validate feelings before guiding behavior. Stories label, validate, then resolve — never the reverse.

Trauma-Informed

Perry

Regulate → Relate → Reason. Safety and connection before cognitive learning — in every story.

Simple by Design

From photo to illustrated story in 3 minutes.

No design skills. No prompt engineering. No waiting. Your BCBA or counselor does what they already know — Tinyverse handles the rest.

Upload their photo

One clear photo becomes a consistent illustrated character — the same child on every page, in every story.

30 seconds

Choose the scenario

Pick the target behavior from 77 therapeutic templates or describe your own. First-person, Gray-aligned text is built in.

1 minute

Generate & deliver

A fully illustrated Social Story™ in minutes. Read aloud on any device, or print hardcover to send home.

90 seconds

Who It's For

Built around your workflow, not instead of it.

For BCBAs

From ABC data and IEP goals to an illustrated story that targets the replacement behavior.

✓ABA reinforcement-language field encodes "when you… you earn…" contingencies
✓Function-of-behavior and antecedent controls shape every story
✓One caseload, consistent characters — no clip-art drift across 30+ students

💰 Fundable under IDEA Part B as a special-education instructional material

For Counselors

Print-ready stories for check-ins, transitions, and small-group social and behavioral skills work.

✓77 templates spanning routines, feelings, and social skills
✓Hardcover or PDF — hand one to a student, send one home
✓Story arcs that validate feelings before guiding behavior

💰 Eligible under Title IV-A well-rounded & safe-and-healthy-students activities

For RBTs

Read-aloud mode for session delivery — the same story, every session, with fidelity.

✓Device-based read-aloud, preferred by autistic learners
✓Consistent character & language across every run of the program
✓Ready in minutes — no prep time between sessions

💰 Supports IEP goal implementation with documented fidelity

For Families

The story goes home. Generalization happens at the kitchen table, too.

✓Send the same illustrated story home for practice and routine
✓The child recognizes themselves on every page
✓Read together on any device, or keep the printed hardcover

💛 Bridges school and home for stronger generalization

Funding

Already fundable through the programs you use.

Tinyverse qualifies as a special-education instructional material — no new budget line required.

Special Education

IDEA Part B

Qualifies as a special-education instructional material supporting IEP goals.

→ Most common path for SPED teams

Well-Rounded Ed

Title IV-A

Eligible under well-rounded education and safe-and-healthy-students activities.

→ Counseling and social and behavioral skills programs

Supplemental

Title I

Supports supplemental literacy and behavior intervention for eligible schools.

→ School-wide & targeted assistance

💡

Not sure which fund applies? We'll help your team build the justification — request a pilot and we'll share the evidence base, funding language, and a two-week rollout plan.

Your students deserve more than a stick figure with their name on it.

Hand-built social stories rarely picture the individual child, because individualized illustration was impractical to do at scale. That is the gap Tinyverse closes.

Most districts are leaving these gains on the table.

From photo to illustrated story in 3 minutes.

Built around your workflow, not instead of it.

Every page, personalized to the child who reads it.

Already fundable through the programs you use.

Run a pilot this semester.