What is Social Thinking?
Teaching social competencies—more than social skills
The foundation of Social Thinking’s work is to provide interventionists (Teachers, Speech & Language Therapists, Clinicians & Parents) and social learners with frameworks, tools, skills and a shared language to improve social competencies—more than just social skills. Their goal is to help people learn explicitly how to engage in social information processing; how to attend, interpret, problem solve and respond in any situation – the thinking and doing skills that will aid them in becoming increasingly successful in the social world throughout their lives.
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About the Founder
Michelle Garcia Winner, MA, CCC-SLP specialises in the treatment of individuals with social learning challenges and is the founder and CEO of Social Thinking®, a company dedicated to helping individuals, from four through adulthood, to develop their social competencies to meet their personal social goals. Michelle coined the term “Social Thinking” in the mid-1990s.
Social Thinking Products
Good Intentions Are Not Good Enough
€ 17.75This 200+ page book is a primer about the social mind in the workplace, but the concepts and strategies are equally applicable in all areas of life.
Social Thinking and Me
€ 38.50 – € 83.95Social Thinking and Me is a powerhouse of social knowledge to help children aged 9 to 12 to transition into the more socially complex and socially demanding older grades and become stronger social problem solvers.
Social Thinking Frameworks Collection
€ 69.50A Two-Set Collection of 26 Visual Teaching Scaffolds for Social Learning & Self-Regulation
Socially Curious and Curiously Social (3rd Edition)
€ 35.95A multiple award winner, this detailed guidebook was developed with the input of neurodivergent teens and young adults as a way to help sail the stormy seas of dating, texting, lies, and everyday relationships.
You are a Social Detective
€ 35.95 – € 71.50Bring social-emotional learning for children ages 5-10+ into your classroom. This bundle includes the award-winning storybook, You Are a Social Detective and its new companion Teaching Curriculum & Support Guide – an easy-to-use curriculum that fits into your current teaching day.
Zones of Regulation: Tools to Try Cards for Kids
€ 36.95Tools to Try Cards for Kids includes tool cards (10cm x 15cm) and is an easy, user-friendly way to introduce over 50 self-regulation strategies to kids ages 5–10 and empower them to make choices toward figuring out what works best for them.
Zones of Regulation: Tools to Try Cards for Tweens & Teens
€ 36.95Tools to Try Cards for Tweens & Teens is a visually rich card deck designed to help adolescents explore a variety of regulation tools and strategies.