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You have to reach kids before you can teach them—Whole Body Listening Larry, 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

Your toddler throws a tantrum in the middle of a store. Your fifth-grader sulks on the bench instead of playing on the field. What’s going on? In this pioneering, practical book, Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist and author of the bestselling book, Mindsight, and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson demystify the meltdowns and aggravation, explaining the new science of how a child’s brain is wired and how it matures.

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.

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About ILAUGH Model

The ILAUGH Model of Social Cognition is a core (and critical) framework created and developed by Michelle Garcia Winner to help professionals and parents understand and think about the struggles faced by those with social learning challenges. The Framework is based on an extensive literature base of both seminal and current research and represents the foundation of all Social Thinking concepts. ILAUGH is an acronym for the research-based concepts that contribute to challenges in those with social learning issues across academic, community, vocational, and social contexts.

Free thinksheets relating to parts of the ILAUGH model can be downloaded below.

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ILAUGH Model Articles

Understanding Core Social Thinking Challenges: The ILAUGH Model

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Problem Solving Is At the Heart of Social Thinking

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Whole Body Listening Articles

Help Your Kids Become Whole Body Listeners: Fun Activities to Do at Home

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Taking a Deeper Look at Whole Body Listening: It's a Tool Not a Rule

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NEW Zones of Regulation: Tools to Try Cards for Kids

The 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.

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The Zones of Regulation Articles

All the Zones are OK! Tips for Managing the Zones You're In

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Executive Function, Social Thinking & The Zones of Regulation

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Social Thinking & The Zones of Regulation The Journey Continues!

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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, one of our core conceptual frameworks for helping professionals and parents address the struggles of those with social learning challenges. ILAUGH is an acronym for the literature- and treatment-based concepts that help individuals engage more fully with their social environments. In addition to fully detailing the implementation of the ILAUGH Model, Inside Out powerfully shows how social competencies relate to academic success and provides research-based strategies to improve one’s social cognition and problem solving. Learn more

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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+ This is our premier curriculum for teaching more than 60 Social Thinking concepts, frameworks, and strategies. A valuable resource for any teacher, clinician, or parent, it also includes suggestions for grouping individuals and writing goals tied to academic standards. Note: intended for use after familiarity with our methodology detailed in Thinking About You Thinking About Me, 2nd Edition. Learn more

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Social Behavior Mapping: Introducing the Social Emotional Chain Reaction

Social Behavior Mapping: Introducing the Social Emotional Chain Reaction Ages: 8+ Social Behavior Mapping, a core treatment framework within the Social Thinking Methodology, is a visual template that helps users figure out the hidden social rules of a given situation based on what is happening and the people present. It also outlines a fundamental social concept we call the Social-Emotional Chain Reaction: how we act in a specific situation affects how others feel, how we make others feel affects how they treat us, and how we are treated affects how we feel about others and, ultimately, about ourselves. Learn more

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Whole Body Listening Larry at School! 2nd Edition

Whole Body Listening Larry at School! 2nd Edition Ages: 4-10

In this adorable storybook, Larry teaches listening skills with thought-provoking rhymes that teach concrete, structured, and systematic lessons in a kid-friendly way. When his peers demonstrate that they aren’t listening, Larry helps them understand how this impacts others, and to support the thoughts and feelings of others by listening with every part of their body.

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Whole Body Listening Larry at Home! 2nd Edition

Whole Body Listening Larry at Home! 2nd Edition Ages: 4-10

In this adorable storybook, Larry teaches listening skills with thought-provoking rhymes that teach concrete, structured, and systematic lessons in a kid-friendly way. When his peers demonstrate that they aren’t listening, Larry helps them understand how this impacts others, and to support the thoughts and feelings of others by listening with every part of their body.

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Whole Body Listening! (poster)

Whole Body Listening! (poster) Ages: 4-10 Whole Body Listening Larry encourages students to listen with all parts of their brain and body—including their heart—to better learn, play, and work in groups. This colorful poster reminds kids of each body part they can use to listen. Learn more

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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+

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 2nd edition provides an all-new structured approach to observation, illustrations that reflect a broader range of inclusion and diversity in characters. 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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Superflex… A Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum Package (two-book set)

Superflex… A Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum Package (two-book set) Ages: 7-10+ Welcome to the Superflex Academy! Get to know Superflex and the 14 original Unthinkables—characters who represent common unexpected behaviors—and dive into self-regulation strategies. The storybook introduces kids 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. Teach students to access their superflexible thinking and foster self-regulation. Mainstream kids love Superflex too! Learn more

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Self-Regulation with Superflex! Get Started Bundle

Self-Regulation with Superflex! Get Started Bundle Ages: 5-10+ Get started teaching Superflex with this Get Started Bundle! Dive into the foundational products in our Superflex series to teach children the fundamentals of self-regulation and give them a world of characters to make social learning fun. Learn more

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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. Learn more

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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+ 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. Learn more

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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. Please note: interventionists and social learners must be familiar with The Zones of Regulation concepts and vocabulary. This game is not designed to be a stand-alone social emotional teaching tool. Learn more

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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 mature 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 nuanced Situation and Feeling Cards to foster imagination, perspective taking, and social problem solving as players move from cooperative to competitive game play. Learn more

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The Zones of Regulation (dry-erase poster)

The Zones of Regulation (dry-erase poster) Ages: 4+ 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. Learn more

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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. Learn more

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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. Learn more

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On Demand Courses

Learn best teaching practices-including scope and sequencing-for popular Social Thinking products You Are a Social Detective and Superflex: A Social Thinking Superhero Curriculum. Includes a discussion on using We Thinkers! Volume 1 and Volume 2 with early learners.

Module 1: Become a Social Detective Before You Learn to Self-Regulate!

Module 2: Getting to Self-Regulation: Introducing Rock Brain & the Team of Unthinkables

Module 3: Exploring the Superflex Curriculum & How It Fits into the School Day

Module 4: Expanding Superflex’s Teachings & Exploring Use Across Different Age Groups

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ILAUGH Training

Learn strategies to navigate across school, home, and screen landscapes using the ILAUGH Model. Don’t miss this 2-course livestream replay series available through May 31st for as low as $35-$49 per course.

ILAUGH Model Thinksheets: Free Downloadable Thinksheets

About ILAUGH Model

I - Getting Started on Tasks

H = Humor Scale

U = Understanding Perspective

ILAUGH Model Articles

Understanding Core Social Thinking Challenges: The ILAUGH Model

Problem Solving Is At the Heart of Social Thinking

How to Solve Problems, Thinking With Your Eyes & Smart Chart: Free Downloadable Thinksheets

How to Solve Problems

Thinking With Your Eyes

Smarts Chart

Whole Body Listening Larry

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Whole Body Listening Articles

Help Your Kids Become Whole Body Listeners: Fun Activities to Do at Home

Taking a Deeper Look at Whole Body Listening: It's a Tool Not a Rule

Zones of Regulation: Free Downloadable Thinksheet

Create a Zones Check-In for Home

NEW Zones of Regulation: Tools to Try Cards for Kids

The Zones of Regulation Articles

All the Zones are OK! Tips for Managing the Zones You're In

Executive Function, Social Thinking & The Zones of Regulation

Social Thinking & The Zones of Regulation The Journey Continues!

You are a Social Detective: Free Downloadable Thinksheets

Social Detective FLEX Camp Mini Curriculum

Social Smarts & Science Smarts Thinksheet

Superflex Takes on Rock Brain & Build Your Own Unthinkable Detector

Build Your Own Unthinkable Detector Thinksheet

Superflex Takes On Brain Eater and the Team of Unthinkables

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Implementing the Social Thinking Methodology with Fidelity

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