Social Thinking

Livestream Training Series: Social Detective and Superflex Includes 30-day Replay Access! This two-part series is packed with strategies and activities to help your students, clients, and patients learn more about the social world and how to navigate to self-regulate within it. Social Detective thinking, Superflex, and the Unthinkables are our backdrop for core treatment* concepts that support the social mind across the day, including academic standards. Part 1: Me in the ...Social WorldIt All Starts with Social Self-Awareness. Thurs. Mar. 4, 2021 | 9:00 AM PST. Learn how to teach with fidelity the award-winning You are a Social Detective! and SuperflexA Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum to boost social awareness and self-regulation. We explain the critical scope and sequencing required to teach these materials and help your students, clients, and patients improve their social competencies for a lifetime. Learn how to modify this curriculum for use with older social learners. Part 2: Using Social Competencies to Navigate in the Social World. Fri. Mar. 5, 2021 | 9:00 AM PST. Learn how to teach Superflex in the mainstream classroom, in-person, or online. Discover the dos and don’ts when using Social Thinking teaching materials. See more

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Quick tips to teach more deeply how the social world works and how we work in the world. Here's the article mentioned in the clip, The Updated and Expanded Social ThinkingSocial Competency Model: Exploring Sensory Processing, Anxiety Management and Screen Time Overload! https://bit.ly/3bSgK7w

Free #stwebinar. Michelle Garcia Winner, the founder of Social Thinking, will provide valuable teaching tips and delve into the scope and sequence of using Social Thinking’s products with students ages 11-22 to improve self-regulation and social competencies. Over 1.5 hours of instruction Downloadable resources to extend the lessons and apply the strategies Certificate of Completion

Free Thinksheet! Learning About Our Own Behavior: Planning for a Bad Moment in the Day. From one of Social Thinking's best-selling books: Thinksheets for Teaching Social Thinking and Related Skills http://bit.ly/2qDM4CJ. Thinksheets encourages individuals with autism spectrum levels 1 or 2, social (pragmatic) communication disorder, ADHD, or other related socialemotional learning challenges to process more deeply what social thinking means to them. The curriculum works best for students mid elementary through high school. The thinksheets are coded to suggest which ones are better for different aged students. Feel free to use coupon code: Social10 to receive 10% off of most of our products, including this one http://bit.ly/2qDM4CJ

Helps teachers incorporate executive function processessuch as , , , - . Chapters provide effective strategies for optimizing what K12 students learn by improving how they learn. Noted authority Lynn Meltzer and her research associates present a wealth of easy-to-implement assessment tools, teaching techniques and activities, and planning aids. Featuring numerous whole-class ideas and suggestions, ...the book also shows how to differentiate instruction for students with learning or attention difficulties. Case examples illustrate individualized teaching strategies and classroom accommodations. More than a dozen reproducibles are included; the large-size format facilitates photocopying and day-to-day reference. Purchasers also get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. Feel free to use coupon code: Social10 to receive 10% off of printed products See more

Nancy Clements from Social Thinking Boston http://socialthinkingboston.com, shows us a simple activity that helps kids and students call on the power of their hero inside Superflex, along with the Thinkable Meditation Matt. For more free video lessons take a look here https://bit.ly/3rc5jOt

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The hardest thing about creating the GPS Scale was figuring out what core elements to focus on when observing children. We knew we had to keep this list fairly short for our related GPS Observation Checklist to be readily used by many. Through our research, we decided that six core areas were at the heart of children’s interactive play: https://bit.ly/3kyd9OV

Free Downloadable Mini Curriculum! These are just a few examples of some of the core social thinking vocabulary to teach and practice before introducing the Superflex curriculum. This is a very mini curriculum and is meant to help guide you in developing motivational tools to teach strategies (based on conceptual and strategy- based frameworks grounded in research based concepts). Here's a link to the print book: https://bit.ly/2HFfmcK, feel free to use coupon code: Social10 to receive 10% off of new product purchases. Enjoy!

& : , , , - . Social-Academic Connection Part 1: The Social-Academic Brain: The Role of Initiation & Listening with One’s Eyes & Brain, Mon.Feb. 1, 2021 | 9:00 AM PST Social-Academic Connection Part 2: Thinking Socially Through the Lens of Abstract Thinking, Understanding Perspectives, Gestalt Thinking, & Humor, Tues. Feb. 2, 2021 | 9:00 AM PST. All Livestream Courses Include 30-day Replay Access for an incredible price of $-$ !

This semester, I decided to use the IKEA effect as a teacher.The result? One student remarked: Especially in a virtual class environment, I think it helps students feel more engaged with the class and connected to one another. Another said, When I have to teach or use the material in a creative way, it helps me absorb the information better, adding that passing the mic to as many students as possible would naturally increase the psychological safety of everyone in the class, which might encourage more students to speak up in class who normally wouldn’t. https://characterlab.org/tips-o/harnessing-the-ikea-effect/ Thaks Character Lab

In this FREE #STWebinar, two powerful innovators in the areas of emotional control, sensory regulation, and executive functioning join forces to discuss the latest thinking around the Zones of Regulation, a framework and related curriculum for building self-regulation skills. Michelle Garcia Winner, founder of the Social Thinking Methodology, will conduct an in-person interview with Leah Kuypers, author of The Zones of Regulation. You will also receive a Certificate of Attendance for your records. Enjoy!

FREE Download: Building Blocks Handout https://bit.ly/31jLlGE. Parents, teachers, clinicians, and many others have requested this handout to better understand the development of young children with social learning challenges compared to their neurotypical peers. We encourage its use in IEP meetings, treatment planning, and staff discussions to guide a deeper understanding of the social learning process and pinpoint treatment focus areas. The handout displays 15 foundational social learning concepts incorporated into the We Thinkers! early learner series, an extensive product collection for helping children engage in social emotional learning and improve their social competencies. Enjoy

Culturally inclusive Social skill activities for Día de los Muertos from @slp.meets.psyd! 1) identifying thoughts and feelings while watching clips of Coco - 9:40 and 1:33:42 in the movie are great ones! @pixarcoco 2) same but different - other than the obvious trick or treating vs ofrendas, another difference that especially striking is the fear/ghost/trickery theme of Halloween versus the happiness/family/traditions of Día de los Muertos (a good opportunity to talk about o...bserving facial expressions!) from https://efpractice.com 3) Social Behavior Mapping: what are the expected behaviors for celebrating Día de los Muertos from Social Thinking https://bit.ly/3jsurM7 4) Many communities have local celebrations of Día de los Muertos- find a YouTube clip and be a social detective observing a community event. An example in SF Bay Area would be at Garfield Park or Olvera street in Los Ángeles. 5) self reflection about joining a celebration: once you know the expected behaviors, you can think about whether you feel comfortable engaging in these expected behaviors and joining by a Día de los Muertos celebration. Remember to be thoughtful and culturally humble if you do! #socialskills #socialskillsforkids #culturallyresponsive #culturallyresponsiveteaching #culturalappreciation #socialthinking #socialcognition #diadelosmuertos #speechtherapy #speechlanguagepathologist #aba #abatherapy #abatherapist #occupationaltherapy #occupationaltherapist #specialeducation #autismawareness #socialdetective #childtherapy #childtherapist #bicultural

Thank you @kristin.wiens for the lovely reminder. - - https://bit.ly/2FZnep6. implement with fidelity our award-winning curriculum, storybooks, & music collection when using We Thinkers! Volume 1: Social Explorers & We Thinkers! Volume 2: Social Problem Solvers (ages 4-7). Using examples, multi-sensory lessons, & strategies to promote social collaboration & play, we’ll explore social development, demonstrate how to teach 10 core Social Thinking concepts & use the storybooks to help students learn how to navigate to self-regulate within the social world. Join us & co-author of We Thinkers @ryehendrix! https://bit.ly/2FZnep6 #socialthinking #kristinwiens #dailydoodle

FREE stuff - Social Thinking Teletherapy Activity: Smart Guess Brain Swap with Ryan Hendrix https://bit.ly/3mhdGoT. An activity that can be used in teletherapy to practice perspective-taking, shared imagination and smart guesses. The We Thinkers! series helps children build fundamental social competencies and improve their social and academic performance. Teachers, clinicians, and parents give it rave reviews! https://bit.ly/2z2zMbd. Use coupon code: Social10 to receive 10% off of new product purchaes

How well an individual performs on a standardized test in no way proves or disproves the presence of a social learning and/or social thinking challenge! Our tests just aren't that sensitive, nor are social abilities that clear cut. Across the fields of psychology, education, and speech and language, IQ and other standardized tests are usually inadequate for assessing the depth and complexity of a social learning disability. This is because traditional standardized tests don't tackle the complexity of what happens in real time social interactions and social problem solving

Three essential actions for helping students with social learning challenges. Nowadays, the demands on mainstream classroom teachers, and what they are expected to accomplish within the classroom, have reached the point of absurdity. We acknowledge this and want to help. No matter how accomplished, teachers cannot support and foster social learning in students with social emotional learning challenges successfully without the help and support of special education professionals, specialists, and parents https://bit.ly/2HlDyAU

FREE Six Page Download: Body in the Group/Out of the Group Thinksheets: https://bit.ly/2TgPKpa Usually, we want people to keep their body IN the group but now that social rule has changed. Why? Children find a treasure chest of strategies to understand and cope with these new hidden social rules. Livestream Early Learners entire four-part series https://bit.ly/3dTcMfl. This four-part livestream series teaches parents and professionals how to implement with fidelity our award-...winning curriculum, storybooks, and music collection when using We Thinkers! Volume 1: Social Explorers and We Thinkers! Volume 2: Social Problem Solvers. Using examples, multi-sensory lessons, and strategies to promote social collaboration and play, we’ll explore social development and demonstrate how to teach 10 core Social Thinking concepts and use the storybooks to help students learn how to navigate to self-regulate within the social world See more