Socially Curious and Curiously Social: A Social Thinking Guidebook for Bright Teens & Young Adults

Updated in 2011! By Michelle Garcia Winner and Pamela Crooke. For students in high school and young adults to read to themselves. An anime-illustrated, get-real guidebook for teens and young adults to read themselves about how the social mind works behind the scenes when we relate to others at school, at work, in the community and at home. From texting to dating, the book provides many practical strategies and "ah-ha moments." Strategies updated in the 2011 edition include those on the levels of friendship and managing anxiety as the student's social awareness and competencies increase.
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Social Thinking at Work

New book by Michelle Garcia Winner and Pam Crooke. For individuals to read on their own. We developed this book from our clinical experience working with very high functioning adults who have social learning challenges. Another possible title for this book was, "Good Intentions Are Not Good Enough" given our observation that our clients have such good intentions and simply want to appreciated for what they are attempting to contribute (just like all of us)! In this book, we have explained the ideas and lessons we often review in our clinical sessions to help our professional adults learn about the social world cognitively since they have struggled to learn this intuitively. "Michelle's books... are extremely practical and full of positive solutions" - Stephen Borgman, Psychology Today
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Brilliant Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

By Dr. Stephen Briers. For professionals, parents and individuals with AS to use themselves. Brilliant Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: How to Use CBT to Improve Your Mind and Your Life has been specially written to help give readers the insight, tools and confidence they need to understand and use CBT in their own lives. It offers a cohesive approach to this groundbreaking therapeutic technique that unfolds in a wholly logical, accessible and practical manner whilst enabling the reader to personalize the information and apply it to their own unique situation.
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Thinking About YOU Thinking About ME, 2nd Edition

by Michelle Garcia Winner
For professionals and parents to use with ALL ages! This is where to start to learn more about social interaction and social awareness! Thinking About YOU Thinking About ME 2nd Edition provides Michelle Garcia Winner's core concepts and treatment methods of Social Thinking® and a foundation for using books like Superflex, You Are A Social Detective and more! The 2nd Edition includes extensive curriculum content on perspective-taking, the Social Thinking Dynamic Assessment Protocol® and more. Age-targeted lesson and activity ideas, templates and handouts are throughout the book.
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Think Social! A Social Thinking Curriculum for School-Age Students (2nd Printing)

By Michelle Garcia Winner
For parents and professionals to use with ALL ages! Think Social! is the core Social Thinking® curriculum book, a complement to Thinking About YOU Thinking About ME. The book provides methods for teaching social thinking to students who have high-functioning autism, Asperger's Syndrome and ADHD, and others, diagnosed and undiagnosed, with social thinking challenges. Building upon the lessons of Thinking About YOU Thinking About ME, the book sequences through eight chapters and 69 lessons that help students explore the basics of working and thinking in a group. Each chapter addresses how to use and interpret language (verbal and nonverbal) to further understand the context of communications. The lessons have helped individuals in K-12 and through adulthood.
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Inside Out: What Makes a Person with Social Cognitive Deficits Tick?

By Michelle Garcia Winner. For professionals and parents to use with all ages. This book is where to start to learn more about how social problems connect to academic problems, such as reading comprehension and written expression. The book introduces Michelle's ILAUGH model, that helps to pinpoint specific challenges. For ages K-adulthood grade and beyond, this book also provides insight on what information we expect students to develop "naturally" to become strong learners.
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Parent's Guide to College for Students on the Autism Spectrum

Jane Thierfeld Brown, Lorraine Wolf, Lisa King & G Ruth Kukiela Bork Learn how to select the right campus, how to work with Disability Services staff, what legal protections apply, how to prepare your son or daughter to be an effective self-advocate on campus, what assistance can be reasonably be expected from residence hall managers, faculty, and much, much more.
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Asperger’s Syndrome and Sexuality

by Isabelle Hénault

For professionals, parents and individuals with AS to read.

Playing the dating game is often tricky: all the more so for individuals with Asperger Syndrome. How do AS adolescents and their families cope with sexual feelings and behavior? What help can be given if a man with AS oversteps the mark in expressing his sexuality? How do people with AS deal with intimacy and communication in sexual relationships? In this comprehensive and unique guide, the author delivers practical information and advice on issues ranging from puberty and sexual development, gender identity disorders, couples' therapy to guidelines for sex education programs and maintaining sexual boundaries. This book will prove indispensable to parents, teachers, counselors and individuals with AS themselves.

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Strategies for Organization: Preparing for Homework and the Real World - DVD (Includes Booklet)

For professionals and parents to use with 4th graders - adulthood. This 3.5 hour DVD and handout booklet features the highlights of Michelle's popular all day workshop on this same topic. The information on this DVD is applicable to teaching and treating ALL students, not just those with learning disabilities, and works well for upper elementary school through university age and beyond!
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Growing Up Social - DVD

For professionals and parents. Active social skill development begins with birth and expands across our lifetime. This DVD looks at how social thinking supports the development of social skills from the first year of life, influencing language development and academic success, as well as skills for adult living. Social thinking concepts and strategies are introduced to support teaching across the home and school day.
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Social Thinking Across The School and Home Day - DVD

For professionals and parents to use with all ages. In Social Thinking Across the Home and School Day, Michelle Garcia Winner presents a DVD workshop defining the ILAUGH framework, her six-point model of social thinking. The focus of this workshop is on the fact that students with social thinking deficits express these deficits not only during social interaction but also in the classroom. They may have difficulty working as part of a group, interpreting and producing abstract language and organizational challenges. Strategies are presented for assisting these students across their home and school day. Supports teaching and treating students in K-12th grade--not intended to be viewed by the students directly.
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Social Behavior Mapping - DVD

For parents and professionals to use with 3rd graders - adulthood. Cognitive behavioral techniques are those which help a student to learn the thinking behind expected behaviors. Social StoriesTM (developed by Carol Gray) is one type of cognitive behavioral technique for teaching students how to cope in a specific context or with specific people. "Social Behavior Mapping" is another complimentary method, which helps students to understand how our behaviors (expected and unexpected) impact how people feel, which then impacts how they treat us, which then impacts how we feel about ourselves. For educators and others treating and teaching 3rd through 12th grade.
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Social Behavior Mapping - Connecting Behavior, Emotions and Consequences Across the Day

Michelle Garcia Winner, Editor
For parents and professionals to use with 3rd graders - adulthood. One of the most successful tools of Social Thinking®, Social Behavior Mapping offers cognitive behavior strategy to teach individuals about the specific relationship between behaviors, others' perspectives, others' actions (consequences) and the student's own emotions about those around him or her. Intended for 3rd-12th grade students, this strategy is most effective for students with solid language skills.
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Living Well on the Spectrum

By Valerie L. Gaus, PhD. For individuals transitioning into adulthood and for adults to read themselves. Navigating the "neurotypical" world with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism (AS/HFA) can be extremely stressful. But by understanding the specific ways your brain works differently—and how to tap into your personal strengths—you can greatly enhance your well-being.
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Sequences: 6 & 8-Step for Adults

For professionals and parents to use with students 5th grade through adulthood. The adult set of pictures is recommended for ages 12 and above, since they show many teens pictured in these sequences. Michelle has described how she uses this product in her informal assessment section within the book, Thinking About You Thinking About Me, 2nd edition. Not only are these pictures used for assessment tasks, Michelle also utilizes them to help students explore how we develop concepts such as "main idea" versus "details".
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