Help Kids Become Better Social Thinkers & Problem Solvers
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You have to reach kids before you can teach them—The Zones of Regulation, You Are a Social Detective! and Superflex are wonderful allies in reaching kids with a cast of colorful characters who engage kids in learning to self-regulate.
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The Whole-Brain Child
Complete with 12 age-appropriate strategies for dealing with day-to-day struggles and illustrations that help explain these concepts to a child, The Whole-Brain Child shows how to cultivate healthy emotional and intellectual development so children can lead balanced, meaningful, and connected lives.
ILAUGH Model Articles
Zones of Regulation: Tools to Try Cards for Kids
Regulation Strategies to Focus, Calm, Think, Move, Breathe, and Connect
Learning to self-regulate our Zones is hard, serious work that takes time and lots of practice. Tools to Try Cards for Kids includes 4”x 6” tool cards and is an easy, user-friendly way to introduce over 50 self-regulation strategies to kids ages 5–10 and empower them to make choices toward figuring out what works best for them. For best teaching practice, the strategy card deck should be used in tandem with lessons introducing tools for use with Zones from Chapter 4 in the curriculum book, The Zones of Regulation, as well as paired with other related products, such as Navigating The Zones.
The Zones of Regulation Articles
Inside Out: What Makes a Person with Social Cognitive Deficits Tick?
Inside Out: What Makes a Person with Social Cognitive Deficits Tick?
Ages: 4+
Discover the ILAUGH Model of Social Cognition—which represents the foundation of all Social Thinking® concepts—developed to help all interventionists (parents and professionals) understand and address the social learning challenges of the individuals they treat, teach, live, and work with daily. This framework breaks down social cognition into understandable components for which ILAUGH is an acronym: initiating communication; listening with eyes and brain; abstract and inferential thinking; understanding perspective; getting the big picture; and humor and human relatedness. Shows how to implement the framework in practice and provides strategies, worksheets, and other practical tools, such as IEP goal suggestions for guiding social learners toward social thinking and learning competencies.
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Think Social! A Social Thinking Curriculum for School-Age Students
Think Social! A Social Thinking Curriculum for School-Age Students
Ages: 4+
Think Social! is a comprehensive curriculum that includes over 69 Social Thinking® evidenced-informed concepts, frameworks, and strategies. A valuable resource for any professional or parent teaching social emotional concepts to school-age students—including both neurotypicals and Neurodivergents with social learning differences and/or challenges. The curriculum has basic suggestions for linking lessons to academic standards.
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$91.99
Social Behavior Mapping: Introducing the Social Emotional Chain Reaction
Social Behavior Mapping: Introducing the Social Emotional Chain Reaction
Ages: 8+
Social Behavior Mapping, a visual template and core treatment framework within the Social Thinking® Methodology, makes the complex process of how we all affect one another’s thoughts, feelings, and actions concrete for social learners ages 8+. This revised edition includes 50+ completed Social Behavior Maps (SBMs) to use as references when helping students fill out a blank map; a reproducible SBM template; a detailed description of the fundamental concept—the Social Emotional Chain Reaction (SECR); the 10-Step Visual Guide with instructions for teaching the framework with fidelity; and suggestions for using SBMs with social learners younger than age nine.
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$29.99
You Are a Social Detective! Explaining Social Thinking to Kids, 2nd Edition
You Are a Social Detective! Explaining Social Thinking to Kids, 2nd Edition
Ages: 5-10+
A 2021 multi-award winner! The social world is a big, complicated place that requires us to constantly figure out hidden rules in situations to help us make sense of how we are all interpreting and responding to each other’s actions and reactions. Expanded and revised, this award-winning 2nd edition provides an all-new structured approach to observation, illustrations that reflect a broader range of inclusion and diversity in characters, and lessons for deeper learning which include activities and practice pages for readers as they learn to observe a situation, the people, and what’s happening—a skill set that can then be used everywhere they go, whether it’s at home, school, or within the community. Interventionists will find specific teaching tips and an expanded glossary of Social Thinking Vocabulary and concepts to guide young readers in exploring tools to help them make smart guesses to ultimately figure out the social emotional chain reaction.
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$29.99
Superflex… A Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum Package (two-book set)
Superflex… A Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum Package (two-book set)
Ages: 7-10+
Looking for an engaging way to teach social awareness and self-regulation? Superflex® to the rescue! Kids around the world are having fun learning social emotional strategies and practicing new skills to boost their “Superflex powers.” Without realizing it, they’re working hard to improve their self-regulation and flexible-thinking abilities! Get to know Superflex, the superhero inside us all, and the 14 original Unthinkables—characters who represent common unexpected behaviors—and dive into self-regulation strategies. The storybook introduces students to the world of Superflex and the Unthinkables, and the curriculum includes lessons, handouts, and visual tools to transform your classroom, clinic, or home into a Superflex Academy.
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$59.99
Self-Regulation with Superflex! Get Started Bundle
Self-Regulation with Superflex! Get Started Bundle
Ages: 5-10+
Get started introducing Superflex® with these cornerstone products that teach children the basics of self-regulation while making social emotional learning fun! Begin with You Are a Social Detective!, which encourages kids to observe the social world and introduces our core Social Thinking Vocabulary to help them learn more about social norms, perspective taking, and how our actions impact others. Move on to the Superflex Curriculum Package and get to know Superflex, our own personal self-regulation superhero, and the 14 original Unthinkables®. Also included are our Superflex Super Sticker Collection, Superflex Bingo, plus Superflex: My Hero Inside music CD, as a bonus gift!
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$152.99
$168.95
Tools to Try Cards for Kids: Regulation Strategies to Focus, Calm, Think, Move, Breathe, and Connect | The Zones of Regulation Series
Tools to Try Cards for Kids: Regulation Strategies to Focus, Calm, Think, Move, Breathe, and Connect | The Zones of Regulation Series
Ages: 5-10
A choice rich, portable strategy card deck to help kids ages 5-10 metacognitively explore and practice over 50 self-regulation tools at home, in school, or in therapeutic and community settings. The 4" x 6" two-sided strategy cards are divided into 5 categories that describe strategies to focus, calm, think, move, breathe, and connect developed from lessons in the popular The Zones of Regulation book.
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$24.99
The Zones of Regulation: A Curriculum Designed to Foster Self-Regulation and Emotional Control
The Zones of Regulation: A Curriculum Designed to Foster Self-Regulation and Emotional Control
Ages: 4+
New updated emotions illustrations! This popular framework and curriculum teaches strategies for managing emotions and sensory needs to individuals ages 4+. Rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy, the framework uses four colors to help individuals identify how they are feeling in the moment given their energy, emotions, and level of alertness, creating a colored system to guide them to metacognitive strategies and tools to support regulation. Help students learn how to increase their ability to regulate their emotions, manage their sensory needs, and become more self-aware and skillful problem solvers.
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$59.99
Navigating The Zones
Navigating The Zones
Ages: 8+
This unique and fun cooperative game expands the teachings of The Zones of Regulation curriculum. It introduces the concept of “The Zones Pathway” via a board game that encourages interaction by using a variety of card decks to explore social situations, emotions, and related regulation tools. This flexible teaching tool is non-competitive by design. Social learners collaborate as they practice problem solving how to navigate different social situations, a process required for emotional regulation. Note: Both interventionists and social learners should already be familiar with The Zones of Regulation concepts and vocabulary before playing this game. It is not designed to be a stand-alone social emotional teaching tool.
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$64.99
Advanced Pack: Cards to Extend Play with Navigating The Zones
Advanced Pack: Cards to Extend Play with Navigating The Zones
Ages: 10+
If you’ve been using the game Navigating The Zones, add this companion Advanced Pack to help more sophisticated social learners (age 10+) further practice and develop their social emotional problem solving and regulation skills by introducing three additional levels of play, each advancing in complexity. The Advanced Pack provides 400 more complex and nuanced Situation and Feeling Cards to foster imagination, perspective taking, and social problem solving. It introduces Wild Cards and Trade-A-Cards to encourage more flexible, strategic thinking as players move from cooperative to competitive game play. IMPORTANT! This product requires the use of Navigating The Zones, sold separately.
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$29.99
The Zones of Regulation (dry-erase poster)
The Zones of Regulation (dry-erase poster)
Ages: 4+
New emotions illustrations! This durable, color-coded, 24” x 18” poster highlights four core zones of emotion-behavior regulation taught in the curriculum The Zones of Regulation. Perfect for use in the clinic, classroom, or home, this cognitive behavior approach is designed to help students recognize when they are in different emotion-behavior states called “zones.” Students learn how to use metacognitive strategies to stay in a zone or move from one to another. This interactive visual invites kids to name and discuss the tools they can use and practice to manage their behaviors. Also sold in The Zones of Regulation 3-Poster Set.
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$16.99
Zones STOP, OPT and GO (dry-erase poster)
Zones STOP, OPT and GO (dry-erase poster)
Ages: 8+
This durable, dry-erase poster is a companion product to The Zones of Regulation curriculum by Leah Kuypers, and aligns with Lesson 17 in the book. This in-the-moment teaching tool is designed to help kids who struggle with impulse control and figuring out alternative solutions to conflicts. STOP, OPT and GO gives students an easy-to-remember metacognitive phrase and visual to help them before they act on an impulse. Perfect for the clinic, classroom, or home, this poster (18” x 24”) is also sold in The Zones of Regulation 3-poster Set.
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$16.99
Zones Triggers (dry-erase poster)
Zones Triggers (dry-erase poster)
Ages: 8+
Perfect for clinic, classroom, or home use, this 18” x 24” durable, dry-erase poster is a companion product to the The Zones of Regulation curriculum by Leah Kuypers, and aligns with Lesson 9 "Caution! Triggers Ahead.” This visual tool helps students identify the situations—or triggers—that push them into the Yellow or Red Zones and prepare themselves for something nonroutine. Kids write their triggers on the caution sign to remind themselves to use their metacognitive problem-solving strategies to regulate in those situations. This poster is also sold in The Zones of Regulation 3-Poster Set.
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$16.99
