Middle School

Getting Started

Start with Social Fortune or Social Fate -- pre-adolescents and adolescents read this engaging graphic novel, going through a series of teaching anime comic book strips that inspire students to decide which way the story will continue! Choose wisely and the story unfolds with favorable social "fortune"...

 

Social Behavior Mapping teaches individuals about the specific relationship between behaviors, others' perspectives, others' actions (consequences) and the student's own emotions about those around him or her. For 3rd-12th grade students, this strategy is most effective for students with solid language skills. 

One of Social Thinking's best selling books, Worksheets! for Teaching Social Thinking and Related Skills encourages students with Asperger's Syndrome, high-functioning autism spectrum disorders, ADHD and others to process more deeply what social thinking means to them. Developed from years of working with students with social-cognitive challenges, the worksheets also serve as lesson plans to introduce social thinking concepts. Educators then take these concepts and play with them through different activities they develop. The curriculum works best for grades 5-12. The worksheets are coded to suggest which ones are better for different aged students. There are some worksheets for young students (K-4), but the majority are for more sophisticated users. The worksheets are a valuable supplement to Thinking About You Thinking About Me and Think Social!Curriculum.

The Social Success Workbook for Teens: An Instant Help Book for Teens. In this book, students are encouraged to reflect on their own experiences through guided workbook tasks. Chapters include topics such as: What's different about my brain?; Cool down tools; Using positive self-talk. Each chapter kicks off with a "you need to know" section to encourage the students thinking about a particular topic. This book can be used as part of a group lesson or as individual work for a student to think about in his own free time. This book, like all the others in the series, will also help parents think of ways in which they can engage their children in discussions related to this topic.

Also, Thinking About You Thinking About Me 2nd edition, Inside out: What Makes a Person With Social Cognitive Deficits Tick? and Think Social! A Social Thinking Curriculum for School-Age Students are solid, core books for use with this age group as they are for any school age group...

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New with Stronger Cover and Binding! By Pam Crooke and Michelle Garcia Winner. For students to read on their own. Through this anime-based graphic teaching book, tweens and teens will be inspired to explore how social decision making and problem solving impact their own ability to feel good about themselves, while also exploring how their behaviors (expected and unexpected) impact others. This product provides direct instruction and guidance to our students and their teachers by explaining visually, with words and with strategy codes how to decipher social situations and related social emotional responses. This book has received very positive reviews from teens and professionals. It's target audience is 5th grade through high school students.
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$22.00

 
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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$19.95

 
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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$22.00

 
by Michelle Garcia Winner
For parents and professionals to use with students 4th grade - high school. New reduced price! One of Social Thinking's best selling books, Worksheets! encourages students with Asperger's Syndrome, autism spectrum disorders, ADHD and others to process more deeply what social thinking means to them. Developed from years of working with students with social-cognitive challenges, the worksheets also serve as lesson plans to introduce social thinking concepts. Educators then take these concepts and play with them through different activities they develop. The curriculum works best for grades 5-12. The worksheets are coded to suggest which ones are better for different aged students. There are some worksheets for young students (K-4), but the majority are for more sophisticated users. The worksheets are a valuable supplement to Thinking About You Thinking About Me and Think Social!.
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$32.00

 
By Michelle Garcia Winner. For professionals and parents to use with their students. Book with CD! Our worksheet books are designed for use by parents, educators, and therapists to build upon the concepts explained in more depth in our other books and articles on the topic of Social Thinking. In this book, you’ll find worksheets to help students explore concepts such as learning about others' perspectives, problem solving, emotion regulation, coping with your inner boss and more!
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$32.00

 
By: Barbara Cooper, Nancy Widdows
For professionals and parents to use with middle - high schoolers. Making friends is a skill like any other-there are rules to follow, ways to measure your progress, and reasons why some people are better at it than others. Although it may seem like this skill comes naturally to those who don't have Asperger's disorder, nonverbal learning disorder (NLD), or other problems relating to others, the reality is that even the most popular people must constantly hone their abilities in order to make new friends and keep the friends they already have.
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$14.95

 
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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$48.00

 
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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$84.00

 
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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$26.00

 
New CD/book edition, lower price! By Michelle Garcia Winner For parents and professionals to use with students 3rd grade - high school. Sticker Strategies reinforces social and behavioral problem solving and self-reliance in students - all in format that the student carries throughout the day, enabling him or her to choose strategies and powerful reminders for specific situations. The result is fewer breakdowns and classroom disruptions.
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$24.00

 
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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$39.95

 
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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$59.95

 
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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$59.95

 
By Brenda Smith Myles, Melissa Trautman, and Ronda Schelvan.
For professionals and parents to use with students kindergarten - high school. This book offers practical suggestions and advice for how to teach and learn those subtle messages that most people pick up almost automatically but that have to be directly taught to individuals with social-cognitive challenges, including those on the autism spectrum. Given the serious consequences that can befall a person who violates a social rule, the strategies and detailed lists of curriculum items make this a much-needed resource.
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$19.95

 
For parents and professionals to use with middle schoolers to high schoolers. A complete groupwork resource offering a hierarchical approach to teaching social and relationship skills to teenagers.
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$63.80

 



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