Social Autopsy Example
Social Autopsy Example
Example of a situation at school
When to use:
- To help a student better understand a social situation.
- To help the student respond more appropriately in the future.
How to use:
- Identify an area with privacy to discuss the situation with the student.
- Complete the worksheet:
- Identify the error
- Identify who was harmed by the error
- Decide how to correct the error
- Develop a plan so the error doesn’t happen again
- Model and role play the plan prior to the student carrying it out.
- Follow up with the student after the plan has been carried out.
Tips:
- Initially model how to use the worksheet, then as appropriate, begin to give the student more independence.
- You may need to help the student by providing options for the steps. For example: If the error is a student damages another student’s personal item, options for correcting the error could be to apologize, repair the item, or to replace the item.
- Pairing visuals can facilitate increased understanding.