Middle School

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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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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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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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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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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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By Dominique Baudry, is a fun and engaging way for middle and high school aged kids to explore a variety of social behaviors from different peoples’ perspectives. Players think about their own responses to situations and then learn how their choices match up (or don’t) with those of other players. The game makes thinking and talking about behavior fun, and allows players to explore their own thoughts, perspectives, and choices within a safe and consequences-free environment. Game play offers abundant opportunities to practice social thinking, perspective taking, and problem solving skills, and discuss how our individual behavior choices affect those around us.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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By Leah Kuypers For professionals and parents to use with students elementary school - high school. Book and CD. The Zones of Regulation is a curriculum geared toward helping students gain skills in consciously regulating their actions, which in turn leads to increased control and problem solving abilities. Using a cognitive behavior approach, the curriculum’s learning activities are designed to help students recognize when they are in different states called “zones,” with each of four zones represented by a different color. In the activities, students also learn how to use strategies or tools to stay in a zone or move from one to another. Students explore calming techniques, cognitive strategies, and sensory supports so they will have a toolbox of methods to use to move between zones.
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For professionals and parents to use with students in elementary school - high school. Poster to reinforce the four "zones" and the related lessons of The Zones of Regulation book/curriculum/CD.
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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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For students 8-11 years old with autism spectrum disorders, problems with flexibility and goal-directed behavior can be a major obstacle to success in school and in life. But flexibility and goal-setting can be taught just like any other skill—and this how-to manual equips professionals with simple, real-world ways to help students with ASD develop this critical aspect of executive function.
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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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By Marci Fox, PhD. & Leslie Sokol, PhD. Think Confident, Be Confident for Teens shows teens how to tap into their self-esteem so they can be themselves in every situation, no matter how awkward it may feel or how scary it may sound. The fun exercises and tips in this confidence-coaching workbook will guide young people through past feelings of self-doubt and encourage them to believe in themselves, strengthen their friendships, and meet every challenge head-on.
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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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Author: Alex J. Packer

For students to read themselves.

Here's an etiquette book that teens will want to read—because it keeps them laughing, doesn't preach, and deals with issues that matter to them, as teens themselves reported in a nationwide survey.

In the tradition of his best-selling Bringing Up Parents, Alex J. Packer blends outrageous humor with sound advice as he guides readers through the mysterious world of manners from A ("Applause") to Z ("Zits").


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By Susan Sprague
For professionals and parents to use with students in middle school - transitioning into adulthood. This book teaches adolescent girls to think more deeply about aspects of their own social world and how cliques tick. Chapters address: Teasing: the good, bad and unintended; the profile of the bully; how to defend yourself online and more. This workbook encourages your child in their process of self-discovery and can help parents think of ways to engage them in discussions related to this under-addressed topic.
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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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For parents and professionals to use with students in kindergarten - middle school. The newest offering by Carol Gray! Social Stories help the child with autism or Asperger's Syndrome to understand the social world around them. This book is an updated version of the New Social Story Book with new text and accompanying illustrations.
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For professionals and parents to use with students 4th grade through high school. Detective agencies come in many shapes and forms, but never before has there been a one-man social detective agency! Johnny Multony, himself transformed from a social misfit to a socially savvy kid, starts the first-ever social detective agency!
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Assisting Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Understanding Social Interactions and Controlling Their Emotional Responses by Kari Dunn Buron and Mitzi Curtis
For professionals and parents to use with students in kindergarten - high school. In this must-have resource, "two teachers from Minnesota" share their successful use of the simple concept of 5-point scales to help students understand and control their emotional reactions to everyday events that might otherwise set in motion escalating reactions. Whether it is inappropriate touching, obsessions, yelling, hitting or making hurtful statements to other students, this clearly illustrated book shows how to break down a given behavior and, with the student's active participation, develop a unique scale that identifies the problem and suggests alternative positive behaviors at each level of the scale!
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By Kari Dunn Buron. For professionals and parents to use with students in upper elementary school - young adulthood. Building on the 5-point scale, Kari has written a workbook for adolescents and young adults called A 5 Is Against the Law! The book takes a narrower look at challenging behavior with a particular focus on behaviors that can spell trouble for youth who have difficulty understanding and maintaining social boundaries.
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For parents and professionals to use with students in preschool - 8th grade. What's an explosive child? A child who responds to routine problems with extreme frustration-crying, screaming, swearing, kicking, hitting, biting, spitting, destroying property, and worse. A child whose frequent, severe outbursts leave his or her parents feeling frustrated, scared, worried, and desperate for help.
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Judy Reaven, Audrey Blakeley-Smith, Chana Nichols & Susan Hepburn. Anxiety is one of the biggest challenges faced by children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders and Asperger syndrome. Help them conquer their fears—and participate more fully in home, school, and community life—with this innovative group therapy program for children 8–14 years old and their parents.
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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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For parents and professionals to use with students k-6th grade. Helping children develop greater empathy-related awareness and skills can help prevent negative social behaviors such as bullying, meanness, and alienation. Empathy is a fundamental social emotion because it brings a sense of emotional connection to others.
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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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By MindWing Concepts, Inc.

For professionals and parents to use with students in kindergarten - high school.

MindWing’s NEW Autism Collection uses the Story Grammar Marker® and Narrative Development to help children with verbal organization, writing, expression & recognition of feelings, Perspective-Taking, Theory of Mind, Oral Language, Cause-Effect, Inference, Problem Solving, Planning, Sentence Structure, Consequence and more!


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By Brenda Smith Myles, Melissa Trautman, and Ronda Schelvan. Foreward by Michelle Garcia Winner. In the revised and expanded edition of this popular book, the authors narrow their target to issues common to adolescents and young adults.
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By Jessica Minahan and Nancy Rappaport Based on a collaboration dating back nearly a decade, the authors—a behavioral analyst and a child psychiatrist—reveal their systematic approach for deciphering causes and patterns of difficult behaviors and how to match them with proven strategies for getting students back on track to learn.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Tangible time management is finally a reality with the Time Timer!
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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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