This short 2-hour course is designed to give educators, therapists, and parents/caregivers an understanding of the We Thinkers! series, a metacognitive curriculum for 4- to 7-year-olds. It introduces social cognitive concepts; strategies for implementing the series with fidelity, including engineering the environment, pacing, and playing with the concepts; and highlights key components of social thinking, group formulation, and service delivery. Lessons are story-based, games oriented, and support inquiry-based learning using hands-on, multisensory teaching tools. The 90-day Recorded Replay Access begins at the time of Registration.

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Join Sarah Ward and Kristen Jacobsen for this dynamic and practical back-to-school course that introduces powerful, ready-to-use strategies from the new Time Tracker Program, designed to help students shift from relying on adult prompting to becoming truly independent planners. This session will equip educators, therapists, and parents with concrete tools to make time visible and help students envision it, plan it, do it, and get it done! The 90-day Recorded Replay Access begins at the time of Registration.

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While a literal learning system can be an absolute strength in some circumstances, it can also be a struggle when the academic and social worlds increase in complexity. This course explores how to better understand, support, and teach strategies for more literal thinkers with very literal interpretive systems. We’ll focus on strengths but will also have an honest conversation about how to listen to their individual goals while simultaneously helping them to gain skills and supported independence for adulthood in ways that make sense to them. The 90-day Recorded Replay Access begins at the time of Registration.

Explore the needs of students who desire friendships and relationships with their peer group but struggle with accessing social strategies in the moment. These students often exhibit solid to strong academic and language learning strengths, but report having social and academic goals that are impacted by compelling anxiety, perfectionism, executive functioning skills, and a lack of access to practical tools. The 90-day Recorded Replay Access begins at the time of Registration.

The way most of us concentrate and focus our attention on things that matter has undergone a dramatic disruption in the past two decades. While what we need to do can be enhanced by technology, there are potentially even more digital factors that get in the way of meeting one’s academic, employment, and/or social goals. In this course, we will use a developmental lens as we introduce strategies to help students problem solve and self-evaluate how they set goals, make plans, and stay on task to foster executive functioning, while simultaneously and constantly being distracted by digital tools such as screens, phones, and watches. We’ll also take a deeper look at the latest research related to concentration and focus. The 90-day Recorded Replay Access begins at the time of Registration.

Both teachers and learners need practical ways to think about the social world. In this introductory course, you will learn 15+ practical teaching strategies using Social Thinking Vocabulary and visual frameworks. The activities from this course focus on making abstract social information more concrete through lessons to teach social learners how to socially attend, interpret, problem solve, and respond to social information. Activities will also focus on strategies for teaching emotional understanding, theory of mind/perspective taking, and executive functioning to help learners meet their own social goals. Note: This course is introductory and designed for those who are new to Social Thinking or just want to expand how they teach lessons from the Social Thinking Methodology. The 90-day Recorded Replay Access begins at the time of Registration.

Discover an array of concepts and strategies that bolster social learning and help students meet socially based educational standards. Explore the ILAUGH Model of Social Cognition to help break down and make sense of the social world. Uncover how differences and/or challenges in social communication, executive functioning, and perspective taking impact written expression, reading comprehension of literature, organizational skills, and working in a group. Learn strategies to support students, clients, and patients in each of the above! Rounding out the day: learn tips for student-driven goal writing and data keeping. Note: This course is introductory and designed for those who are new to Social Thinking or just want to expand how they teach lessons from the Social Thinking Methodology. The 90-day Recorded Replay Access begins at the time of Registration.