Research questions and methodology
Our aim is to investigate whether major autism-related educational principles from TEACCH,
social stories and KRAP can be applied to the use of animation, and whether the resulting
activity can contribute to the pedagogical repertoire. Howley and Arnold (2008) describe in
their book on uncovering the hidden social code how the comic conversation can be a visual
teaching tool to show and teach a person with autism spectrum disorders how another
person thinks (shown in a thought bubble) and how that person speaks (shown in a speech
bubble). This comic conversation is an example of a pedagogical approach for work with
people on the autism spectrum, internationally known as social stories.