ABSTRACT
This chapter is for ordinary people who care for children with disabilities. It is intended to encourage people to develop a strategy for story telling for their particular child. It is not prescriptive because it is not possible to be specific about approaches that are suited to all people. Everybody is different, and the existence of disability in society increases that diversity. However, it does seek to help the carer prepare a thoughtful and informed strategy of story telling that is beneficial to the particular child. Story telling is an art, an act of creativity, which relies on the talent of the story teller. To make this chapter applicable to children with all types of disabilities, we rely on the ability of the reader to be imaginative and develop appropriate story-telling practices and to elicit story making practices from the general methods we identify. The important point for the reader to grasp is the therapeutic nature of stories. If this chapter serves to help focus the wit and charm of the story teller to enhance and develop the life of the child with a disability, then it has served its purpose admirably.
