Teach Social Emotional Responsibility to Tweens & Teens
Tweens & Teens (ages 10+)
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The Social Thinking® Methodology first developed from our work with high schoolers. It’s now the premier, go-to source for understanding the social world through an evidence-based lens, which encourages the ongoing development of teaching concepts, strategies, and tools for working with and supporting tweens and teens as they learn about themselves and others, as well as how to navigate meeting their own goals in the ever-changing landscapes within the social world.
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Social Thinking Frameworks Collection | A Set of 26 Social Thinking® Teaching Frameworks
Social Thinking Frameworks Collection | A Set of 26 Social Thinking® Teaching Frameworks
Ages: 4 - adult
We’ve got 26 powerful visual tools to help you and your social learners crack open the social emotional world—all in one collection. We’ve distilled 25 years of our core learning and teaching into hands-on, ready-to-use , 8.5” x 11” scaffolds to help both interventionists and social learners organize, talk about, understand, and navigate diverse social landscapes.
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$44.99
$49.98
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 Fortune or Social Fate: A Social Thinking Manga-Style Map for Social Quest Seekers
Social Fortune or Social Fate: A Social Thinking Manga-Style Map for Social Quest Seekers
Ages: 10+
Award winning and kid friendly, this graphic novel-style book uses comic strip scenarios to teach about common social and emotional chain reactions. Co-developed, critiqued, and inspired by Neurodivergent tweens and teens, this book represents the 10 social scenarios they most often encountered. Readers will get to see the choices of three characters and the outcome of those choices (social fortune or social fate). Designed to show “both sides of the [choices] coin,” the book allows students to read the book forward or backwards. Readers also get to see how protagonists’ choices are tied to their own thoughts, their actions or reactions, which ultimately impact how they feel. Each scenario includes either an analysis and strategy codes to decipher the characters’ choices or an “autopsy” for a better understanding of what happened and why.
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$27.99
Tweens & Teens Bundle
Tweens & Teens Bundle
Ages: 10+
The social emotional world is complicated—and so are tweens and teens. They typically don’t want to be told what to do, yet still struggle to solve their problems independently. As social learners, they need guidance and support in a way that feels right and makes sense to them. The five books, a two-set collection of 26 teaching frameworks, and card game in this bundle speak directly to a variety of social emotional learning needs of tweens and teens—frankly, sometimes with humor, but always encouraging them to learn how the social world works so they can logically learn new social competencies to help them meet their own goals. This collection provides a range of information, visual supports, scaffolded treatment frameworks, strategies, and tools to best meet their needs and developmental ages.
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$232.99
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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 visual teaching template and core framework within the Social Thinking® Methodology, makes the complex and abstract process of how we all affect one another more concrete. This revised edition includes 50+ completed Social Behavior Maps (SBMs) to use as references when helping students (ages 8+) fill out a blank map; a reproducible template; a detailed description; and a10-Step Visual fidelity and teaching guide.
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$29.99
Socially Curious and Curiously Social: A Social Thinking Guidebook for Bright Teens and Young Adults
Socially Curious and Curiously Social: A Social Thinking Guidebook for Bright Teens and Young Adults
Ages: 14-22
New edition! All-new language, content, and book cover design featuring artwork by a Neurodivergent artist! Teen and young adult readers give rave reviews of this award-winning “get real” guidebook with anime illustrations that helps social learners sail the stormy seas of dating, texting, lies, and everyday relationships. Targeted social emotional strategies encourage readers to better navigate their social worlds, develop stronger social competencies, and manage social anxiety. Interventionists (parents, caregivers, and professionals) appreciate how it better equips them to explain the Social Thinking® process, helping young adults learn to use metacognitive strategies to navigate to self-regulate within social situations. Use the free Socially Curious Thinking and Reading Guide with the book to enrich the social learning and conversation.
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$29.99
