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.