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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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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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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Mike's Crush for Families

Nancy Nowell, MPA, MEd, CSE The Mike’s Crush DVD and booklet teach the social skills needed for healthy adolescent friend, boyfriend and girlfriend relationships. Understanding the difference between a crush and stalking is critical for middle and high school students if they are going to be accepted by their peers.
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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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Autism as Context Blindness

By Dr. Peter Vermeulen. Context plays a critical role in the way the human brain processes information. This is especially true in the area of social information. Whenever we are in a situation, we take into consideration the who, what, where, when, and why of the many variables that surround us to determine what to say or do.
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Movie Time Social Learning

By Anna Vagin, PhD. Movie Time Social Learning takes an activity many students already love—watching movies—and uses it as a springboard to study the intricacies of social interaction, the depth and range of emotions we experience in our lives, and the social expression that drives our interactions.
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Helping Your Anxious Child 2nd Edition

By: Ronald M Rapee, Ann Wignall, Susan H. Spence, Vanessa Cobham, Heidi Lyneham
For professionals and parents to use with all ages. This expanded and updated version of a best-selling classic guides readers to help a child overcome anxiety and fears. It describes in detail strategies and techniques they can combine into a comprehensive self-help program for a child's particular needs. All of us have experienced anxiety, but few of us have been taught strategies to help manage it. This book is very helpful for teaching the lay person (parent or professional) about the core concepts of anxiety and strategies that can be used to help our students work through it. Anxiety is alive and well in our schools and in our homes; it is time we all learn some basics for how to directly address this topic. This is an excellent starting place.
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Visual Thinking Strategies For Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorders

by Ellyn Lucas Arwood, Ed.D.; Carole Kaulitz, M.Ed.; and Mabel Brown, M.A.For professionals and parents to use with ALL ages! Visuals of all kinds are used as supports for individuals on the autism spectrum who tend to think and learn visually. However, not all visuals are created equal! This new and important book explores "The Language of Pictures," showing how to match visual tools with the developmental level of the child or adult you are working with. A great way to learn the science behind the art!
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Brain (Foam Rubber)

For students to use! Students enjoy squeezing the small, blue foam rubber brains as the brains encourage them to think more flexibly and abstractly about the size of their problems and the choices they are making. Used in lessons that encourage flexible thinking, including those in Superflex and Thinking About YOU Thinking About ME, the brains offer a fun way to inspire our students to think about their social thinking and related skills. "Social Thinking is Flexible Thinking" is inscribed on the brains to reinforce the lessons the students are learning.
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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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Posters - Four Posters for the Classroom & Treatment Room

For use by professionals and parents with students 3rd grade and above. Social Thinking posters arose from the need in classrooms across the country for clear, visual reinforcement of Social Thinking concepts. A classroom (therapy room or even home) functions most effectively if the students are actively engaged in appropriate social behavior, and learning that behavior, for that environment. Four posters included in this package: Being Part of a Group, Boring Moment, Social Behavior Map and Social Behavior Dry Erase Template (each also available by title in All Products). Please note, the Superflex poster is NOT included in this poster pack.
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Being Part of a Classroom - Poster

For professionals and parents to use with students 3rd grade and up. Social skills are expressed each time we co-exist in a group. To use our social skills well simply means each of us is sharing space effectively. What does it take to share our space? This poster lays out the 4 steps of being part of group for home, school and therapy room.
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Boring Moments, The - Poster

For use by professional and parents with students 3rd grade and up. An important life skill is coping with boredom when participating in groups. The Boring Moments Poster uses humor to explicitly state the “expected” and “unexpected” behaviors related to boredom. With the support of the poster teachers can have more explicit discussions with students
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Social Behavior Map Poster - Behaviors for Learning in the Classroom

For professionals and parents to use with 3rd graders - adulthood. Social Behavior Mapping is a strategy described in detail in Michelle's book, Thinking About You Thinking About Me. The purpose of a social behavior map is to help students learn how each behavior they do has an emotional impact on those around them
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Social Behavior Map Template Poster - Dry Erase Surface

For professionals and parents to use with 3rd graders - adulthood. This social behavior map poster is a template that can be hung in a classroom or therapy room to help student's problem solve how expected and unexpected behaviors can set off predictable chain reactions of emotions and related behaviors from others.
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Time Timer - 3" with Optional Audible Signal

Tangible time management is finally a reality with the Time Timer. When you need to manage time or teach the concept of time, there is no better tool than a Time Timer.
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Time Timer - 8" with Optional Audible Signal

Tangible time management is finally a reality with the Time Timer!
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Time Timer CD - PC/Mac Compatible

With the Time Timer CD you have the option to use a visual depiction only, or add sound. It has the ability to easily change from minutes to seconds or even hours, offers a lock-down feature, and the on-screen size can be altered. The Time Timer CD is Macintosh® and Windows® compatible.
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