How to create a social story with Wheva
A social story in two clicks. Really.
A good social story can change how a session goes. It can help a child understand what to expect at the dentist, how to ask for a break, or what the morning routine looks like step by step. The problem has never been knowing what to make. It has always been the time it takes to make it.
With Wheva, you describe the story once and the AI generates every scene at once, images and text together.
See it in action
Watch how a finished social story comes together in just a couple of clicks.
What you will need
No design experience, no image library, no prior setup. All you need is a Wheva account and a clear sense of the scenario you want to support.
Starting a new story
Head to Studio from the main navigation and open a new story. You will land on the story creation form, a single page where you set everything up before the AI generates anything.
Setting up the story
Start by giving the story a name and linking it to a client or your organization. When you link it to a client, the characters from their profile are automatically carried into the story. There is no separate step to pick them.
From there, choose how many scenes the story will have. Anywhere between 2 and 5 works, though most stories feel complete with 3 or 4. You can also set the aspect ratio — landscape tends to work well on screens, portrait on printed materials — and pick an art style that suits the client. If you have reference images that could help ground the visuals in a familiar setting or object, you can upload those too.
Writing the description
This is the part that drives everything. In plain language, describe the scenario you want the story to cover: what happens, in what order, and the feeling you want to land on at the end.
“A story about going to the dentist for the first time. Scene 1: arriving at the waiting room and choosing a seat. Scene 2: the dentist explaining what they are going to do. Scene 3: getting back in the car feeling proud.”
You do not need to describe each image separately. The AI reads the whole description and generates the scenes accordingly, images and text both.
Generating the story
Click Generate. Wheva produces every scene at once. Each one gets an image featuring the client’s character and a short piece of text to go alongside it. The scenes appear as they finish.
Reviewing and refining
Once the story is generated, everything is editable inline. Click directly into the title or body text of any scene to adjust the words. Click an image to attach it to the AI chat, then tell the agent what you want to change — a different expression, a different background, whatever the scene needs. If you prefer a previous version of an image, the version history lets you go back. You can also add a new scene or remove one that does not fit.
When the story reads well from start to finish, Read mode gives you a clean, focused view. Present takes it full screen, scene by scene, which is useful for going through it with a client before the real situation comes up.
Why it works
Social stories work because they prepare. They give someone a mental map of what to expect, in a form that is specific, visual, and calm. The faster you can make one that is genuinely tailored to a person and a situation, the more useful they become, and the more of them you can make.
Wheva does not replace the clinical thinking behind a good social story. It removes the part that does not require clinical thinking: the searching, the drawing, the reformatting. That part should take two minutes, not two hours.
Try it now
Open Studio, start a new story, and write your first description. If you run into anything or have ideas for how to make it better, we would love to hear from you at hello@wheva.com.
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