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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Worksheets! for Teaching Social Thinking and Related Skills

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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Social Thinking Worksheets for Tweens and Teens: Learning to Read In-Between the Social Lines

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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Zones of Regulation, The

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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Zones of Regulation Poster

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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Sticker Strategies - Practical Strategies to Encourage Social Thinking 2nd Edition

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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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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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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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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Whole Body Listening Larry at Home

By Kristen Wilson, MS, CCC, Elizabeth Sautter, MA, CCC For parents and professionals to use with students 4-9yrs. This colorfully illustrated teaching storybook provides fun ways to teach children an abstract but essential idea - that their eyes, hands, brains – their whole bodies! – communicate, engage with and affect the people around them. Parents, teachers and therapists use this book to teach this challenging concept through illustrated scenarios at home, in the car, with friends, with grandparents – and a number of other very recognizable situations. If your young (primarily pre-K to third grade) student(s) is a bit (or a lot) wiggly, you might need this book! The book can be read with the child and the child then can read the book on his or her own, with siblings, friends, grandparents – it’s sure to spark some great discussions!
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Whole Body Listening Larry at School

By Kristen Wilson, MS, CCC, Elizabeth Sautter, MA, CCC For parents and professionals to use with individuals 4 to 9 years old.

This second storybook focuses on the classroom, recess and the situations of school! Educators can use the storybook to teach young (primarily pre-K to third grade) student(s) who may need to learn better self-regulation how their entire bodies affect those around them.
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Whole Body Listening Poster

For professionals and parents to use with individuals 4 to 9 years old. The Whole Body Listening Larry Poster provides a fun way to reinforce lessons of the Whole Body Listening Larry storybooks.
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We Can Make It Better: A Strategy to Motivate and Engage Young Learners in Social Problem-Solving Through Flexible Stories

by Elizabeth M. Delsandro, M.S., CCC-SLP. For parents and professionals to use with students 4yrs - 9yrs. CD included with printable worksheets and 21 “We Can Make It Better!” Stories©. We Can Make It Better! is a resource for safe and motivating social problem-solving practice. With the right tools, practice and understanding, students can learn how to make good choices — in their thoughts, actions and words — that result in improved social interactions.
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What is a Thought? (A Thought is a Lot!)

By Amy Kahofer and Jack Pransky This engaging children's book (and CD with lessons) introduces K-5 readers to the concept of thought and the amazing power our thoughts have on our lives. Authors Amy Kahofer and noted prevention specialist Jack Pransky present a simple yet profound message: that our thinking creates our feelings and behavior, and when our minds are calm we have access to natural wisdom and healthy feelings.
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I Get It! Building Social Thinking and Reading Comprehension Through Book Chats

By Audra Jensen. For parents and professionals to use with individuals in primary school to late elementary school. Reading comprehension is more than being able to read words and sentences... How many parents and teachers have experienced the child who can read, often at an early age, but can't seem to grasp the meaning behind a sentence, or struggles to interpret story lines or the characters' perspectives or emotions? Author Audra Jensen brilliantly makes the connections! For Parents and Professionals to use.
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You are a Social Detective!

Winner of a 2012 Mom's Choice Award and a 2012 National Parenting Publications Award! By Michelle Garcia Winner and Pamela Crooke and illustrated by Kelly Knopp. For parents and professionals to use with students 4 years - 5th grade.

Every one of us is a Social Detective. We are good Social Detectives when we use our eyes, ears, and brains to figure out what others are planning to do next or are presently doing and what they mean by their words and deeds. This entertaining comic book offers different ways that can be reviewed repeatedly with students to teach them how to develop their own social detective skills. Enjoy watching your students and kids blossom day-by-day into successful Social Detectives!

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You Are a Social Detective! Interactive CD

For professionals and parents to use with their students about 7-12 years old. This product explores the Social Thinking teaching concepts discussed in our book, You Are a Social Detective. A key aspect of helping students improve their competencies and therefore their social skills, involves teaching our students to take more active notice of relevant social cues generated by participants in context. PC and Mac compatible.
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Superflex®: A Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum Package

by Stephanie Madrigal and Michelle Garcia Winner
Comic Book by Stephanie Madrigal/Illustrated by Kelly Knopp. For professionals and parents to use with students in 3rd - 5th grade.

Superflex®: A Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum provides educators, parents and therapists fun and motivating ways to teach students with social and communication difficulties (undiagnosed or diagnosed, such as Asperger Syndrome, ADHD, high-functioning autism or similar). The three part cognitive behavioral curriculum helps students to develop further awareness of their own thinking and social behaviors and learn strategies to help them develop better self-regulation across a range of these behaviors.

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Superflex® Takes on Glassman and the Team of Unthinkables

By Stephanie Madrigal and Michelle Garcia Winner. Illustrated by Kelly Knopp. For professionals and parents to use with students in 3rd-5th grade. In this teaching comic book in the Superflex series, Superflex swoops down to help Aiden overcome the Unthinkable, Glassman (who causes our over-reactions to small things), at just the right time: the first day of school!
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Superflex® Takes on Brain Eater and the Team of Unthinkables

By Stephanie Madrigal and Michelle Garcia Winner; illustrated by Kyle Richardson. For parents and professionals to use with 3rd - 5th grade students. Superflex takes on Brain Eater focuses on one of the social cognitive challenges we see most often in our students - distractibility! The engaging comic book (and CD with lessons) is the third in our Superflex series designed to help children learn more about their own social behavior and strategies to regulate it!
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Social Town Citizens Discover 82 New Unthinkables for Superflex® to Outsmart!

If you are interested in the product, click the "notify me" button below, and we will inform you when it is for sale. This latest edition in the Superflex series, for 3rd through 5th graders, is a compilation work that introduces 82 new Unthinkables and 14 new Thinkables submitted by Social Town citizens of all ages, which have been edited and expanded upon by Stephanie Madrigal and Michelle Garcia Winner. Unthinkables and Thinkables are grouped by theme/category for easy reference by student or adult, and each entry includes the character’s power, related information about its characteristics, and strategies to defeat the Unthinkable or bolster a Thinkables’ help.
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Superflex®! - Poster

For professionals and parents to use with students in 2nd-5th grade. This Superflex poster (18"x24") colorfully shows the full Team of Unthinkables - from Mean Jean to Energy Hare-y - and how they try to defeat our students' inner Superflex superhero. But Superflex always remains in the center to remind the students (and all of us!) to use our flexible thinking to overcome them! The poster serves as a visual reminder and reinforcement of your lessons and is perfect for the classroom, the bedroom - anywhere flexible thinking is needed!
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Superflex Storybook Extra Copy

Customers should only purchase this story book if they have purchased the full Superflex curriculum.
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Superflex® T-shirts!

It's here - the Superflex t-shirt! These t-shirts spark even more fun in your Superflex Academy lessons while offering a friendly reminder to our students to use their strategies! On the front, you have your Superflex star badge. On the back, Superflex leaps to remind us to use our flexible thinking powers. Good for home, school, shopping mall... wherever, whenever Superflexible powers are needed!
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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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Should I or Shouldn't I? What Would Others Think?

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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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 Fortune or Social Fate: A Social Thinking Graphic Novel Map for Social Quest Seekers

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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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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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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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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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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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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Social Behavior Mapping (Spanish Version)- Connecting Behavior, Emotions and Consequences Across the Day

For professionals and parents to use with 3rd graders - adulthood. La Ficha del Comportamiento Social (FCS) es una estrategia para el comportamiento cognitivo que se usa exitosamente en la clínica “Social Thinking” (Pensamiento Social) para mostrar las relaciones especificas entre los comportamientos, la perspectiva de los demás, sus consequencias, y las propias emociones del alumno en relación a quienes lo rodean. Michelle Garcia Winner, editor
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You are a Social Detective! (Spanish Version)

For parents and professionals to use with students 4yrs - 5th grade. Este atractivo cómic de 60 páginas introduce a los niños y adultos a los conceptos centrales del concepto del Pensamiento Social y al vocabulario relacionado al Pensamiento Social. Escrito por Michelle Garcia Winner y Pam Crooke
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You are a Social Detective! (French Version)

For parents and professionals to use with students 4yrs - 5th grade. Cette bande dessinée comporte plusieurs concepts différents qui peuvent être sans cesse discutés avec les élèves. Il est préférable de lire ce livre par sections suivi par des discussions directes avec les enfants sur des situations vécues et comment ces concepts s’appliquent personnellement à eux.
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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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