How we make our content

Who writes

Articles, social stories and games are made by the SocialBlossom team. Articles carry the byline SocialBlossom team.

Our co-founder Rajini Darugupally is a speech-language pathologist. Her name appears on an article only when she has read and checked that article herself. If an article doesn’t name her, she hasn’t reviewed it.

We don’t claim an editorial board, outside reviewers or clinical approval that we don’t have.

Where we use AI

We are a small team, and we use AI tools openly. We decide what is published, and the responsibility is ours.

Articles

Drafted with OpenAI’s GPT models against a fixed structure (summary, sections, activities, FAQs, sources). Every draft is checked automatically before it can be published: for clinical wording, for invented first-person stories (“in my practice”), and for news claims that don’t come from a real source.

Social stories

Written and illustrated with AI from a topic, an age range and a skill, with pictures made by Google’s Gemini image model. The “How to use this story” text on each story page is also generated.

What we stopped

Until October 2026, story pages showed AI-written “perspective” cards and star ratings worked out from them. They could be read as real reviews, so we removed both. Earlier articles that were written in a made-up first-person voice were rewritten.

Where we don’t use AI

• Reviews and testimonials: only ever from real people, never generated.
• Prices and refunds.
• Any advice about a specific child.

Sources and news

Articles list their sources. We draw on the CASEL framework, the social stories approach first described by Carol Gray, and published research. We don’t make up citations, and when research is small or early, we say so.

Our writing tools can’t see the news, so they are not allowed to write about recent events. News articles start from a real item (a published study or a news report), use only the facts in that item, link to it, and are approved by a person before they are written.

How we write

• Plain words for parents. No “disorder”, “deficit” or diagnosis language.
• Respect for how autistic and ADHD children communicate: we never ask for eye contact as proof of listening.
• No promises of a cure or a treatment. Our games and stories are practice, not therapy.
• Each article shows when it was first published and when it was last updated.

Corrections and feedback

If you spot a mistake, an out-of-date fact, or anything that doesn’t feel respectful to autistic and ADHD children, please tell us at care@socialstories.life. We’ll fix it, or explain why we disagree.