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Social Story Settings with Help Links
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Student Settings Menu Icon
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Social Story Settings Menu Icon
Social Story Settings Help

For this example, we will explore the help that is available for Social Story Settings.

Once a story starts, the icon in the upper right corner of the screen changes from the Student Settings Menu profile icon to the Social Story Settings Menu ​gear icon. Both are illustrated above. Click the Student Settings Menu icon for the menu of the various settings that are available for customizing stories.

Click the General Settings option in the menu and your screen should look similar to the illustration shown here.

Notice the blue underlined Label and Help Link text? These are the labels for the individual settings, but they are also links to Speech Kingdom's Context Sensitive Help system. Let's explore this further.
Context Sensitive Help

Just as its name implies, context sensitive help means that  the help that is displayed will correspond to where you are in the application. In this case, the instructions explain the options that are specific to the setting label has been clicked.

This illustration shows what happens if we click on the Show Thought Text: settings label.

Here, we see that if Show Thought Text is set to ON, the text of the character will display as his or her inner thought  is spoken out loud.


If we scroll the help window, we will see what the display will look like if the Show Thought Text option is set to OFF (not illustrated here).
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Social Story Context Sensitive Help for Show Thought Text
Context Sensitive Help Format

Speech Kingdom's Context Sensitive Help is is presented in a  consistent format.
  • Heading — An illustration of the option appears at the top of the help window.
  • Body — The body contains text that explains the option at the top of the window.
  • Illustration — If appropriate, an illustration shows you the effect of that option as the mini-story, social story, or game is played.
  • Callouts — Red Callouts will offer further emphasis and explanation of the setting of option that is being described in the help window.

​Scroll the help window to see the complete help that is available for each option.
Example: Context Sensitive Help for Worksheets

​The following two illustrations show the Context Sensitive Help Menu for Speech Kingdom's Social Stories  and help for Speech Kingdom's Social Story Downloadable PDF Worksheets. To access the Worksheets help, first activate the Help Menu by clicking on the Help Menu icon (illustration on the left). Then, click the About Worksheets help link on the Help Menu . 

Help Window: Downloadable PDF Worksheets
Note: Because we have scrolled the screen in this example, the help window Heading and Body are not visible. Our example illustrates the Beginner, Intermediate and Proficient worksheets. The Callouts provide additional information regarding the use of each level of worksheet that is specific to each. 
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Social Stories Help Menu Icon and Help Menu
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Social Story Context Sensitive Help for Worksheets
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