These colorful visual supports promote the active use of 10 Social Thinking Vocabulary concepts that lay the foundation for social learning. While they are a small set of our broader teaching platform, they are an important place to begin individuals’ discovery into their own social-emotional learning and the social world that surrounds them, regardless of whether the individual is typically developing or exhibits social learning challenges. As each of the 10 concepts are introduced, hang up the related visual support to encourage adults and students to observe and use the concepts in their school, clinic,community, and/or home.

This is our premier social-emotional learning package for ages 4–7! Help children develop foundational social competencies with these five storybooks and extensive curriculum. The evidence-based materials strengthen perspective taking and self-awareness and are used and loved around the world by kids, parents, and professionals alike.

This charming book boosts kids’ awareness of the amazing power within us all: thoughts and feelings. Rather than directly changing thoughts or behaviors, it poetically helps children see how their thinking can guide their responses moment to moment, day to day.

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, 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.

Our best-selling curriculum is a powerhouse of social knowledge that introduces Social Thinking Vocabulary and concepts through colorful illustrations and easy-to-understand content. These well-organized books help children become stronger social observers and social problem solvers, and give adults the teaching tools they need to break down and teach complex social concepts.

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!

Social Behavior Mapping meets manga to appeal to tweens and teens! Based on their social choices, the destinies of three relatable characters unfold in graphic-novel style. Cleverly organized to show how social decision making can lead to social fortune or an undesirable social fate. Vividly displays how a situation can change quickly based on how someone reacts—and how those behaviors impact others’ thoughts and feelings.

Designed for individual or group treatment, these thinksheets help tweens and teens navigate the confusing world of social communication. Extending the teaching of Social Thinking into mini lesson plans—topics include considering another’s perspective, reading hidden rules and body language, dealing with jerks and bullies, having different types of friendships, being bossy, overreacting, and more.

Introducing the Thinkable Kool Q. Cumber, whose positive influence helps Social Town citizens stay calm when problems happen. He teaches the use of strategies to figure out the size of a problem and the expected reaction size. Kool Q. Cumber keeps the Unthinkable Glassman at bay!

The Unthinkable Glassman causes Social Town citizens to have big reactions to little problems. In this popular illustrated book, readers follow Superflex as he takes on Glassman. Along the way, they get Superflex Academy lessons and learn self-regulation strategies that help them match the size of their emotional reaction to the size of the problem.

Introducing the Thinkable Focus Tron, who helps kids use their focusing powers to keep their brains connected to what they’re doing or what others are talking about. Focus Tron’s strategies keep the Unthinkable Brain Eater at bay!

Brain Eater makes it tough for kids to pay attention in class or at home—until Superflex arrives. This accessible storybook helps students learn organizational and planning skills to keep their minds tuned in. Includes a CD with thinksheets to extend teaching beyond the pages of the book.

This detailed anime guidebook helps teens and young adults sail the stormy seas of dating, texting, lies, and everyday relationships. Targeted strategies encourage readers to better navigate their social worlds, develop stronger social competencies, and manage social anxiety. This book gets rave reviews from adolescent and young adult readers! Parents, educators, and therapists also appreciate how it better equips them to explain in real time the Social Thinking process, helping young adults navigate social situations.

Written to help all adults and especially those with subtle but significant social learning challenges read the hidden rules of the social world. Includes practical strategies that can be used in the workplace and all areas of life to better understand and respond to others and social situations. Previously titled Social Thinking at Work.

Our informative and accessible bestseller, written by Social Thinking’s founder Michelle Garcia Winner, is ground zero for understanding and applying the Social Thinking Methodology. It deeply explores the social learning process and weaves together research with ways to teach specific social competencies. Introduces core treatment frameworks and related strategies, offers IEP goal samples and suggestions, and presents the Social Thinking Dynamic Assessment Protocol. Crucial reading for all types of professionals, parents, and family members.

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.

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.