Helping over 1 million educators, clinicians & families around the world

Strategies to teach essential life skills including social-emotional learning and self-regulation across all environments

Our Methodology

Books & Games
Video Courses
Live Events
Free Webinars
Article Library

Products

Professionals and parents around the world are using our expansive collection of curricula, books, games, and posters to teach social competencies to ages 4 and up.

While our deeper work is for individuals with social learning challenges (autism spectrum levels 1 and 2, ADHD, twice exceptional, social communication disorders, etc. or no diagnosis,) a subset of our work is being adopted into mainstream classrooms and workplaces around the world to improve social-emotional learning for all.

Products

Video Courses

Informed by the latest research, 20+ years of clinical work, and honed through hundreds of worldwide presentations, these one-of-a-kind video courses explore all aspects of developing social competencies including building self regulation, executive functioning, social problem solving abilities, and much more.

All courses offer access to continuing education credit for select professions in the U.S. and Canada and a personalized Certificate of Completion!

Browse Courses

Live Events

Become immersed in a topic you’re passionate about, surrounded by others who share your passion, while questions fly around the room and are answered by the experts —where the learning feels infinite.

The social interaction and collective knowledge at our conferences make for a rich and inspirational learning experience, which is why 98% of people who attend want to join us again!

Browse All Conferences

Free Webinars

Explore how to teach a variety of core Social Thinking concepts—for free. Browse our entire webinar collection and discover strategies to help people of all ages develop social competencies, self-regulation, social skills, social-emotional understanding, flexible thinking, and more!

Our webinars are not pre-approved for credit by continuing education organizations. However, all participants can download and print a Certificate of Completion.

Browse Webinars

Article Library

Social Thinking is proud to provide an extensive collection of free articles devoted to helping individuals build stronger social awareness and social functioning using the Social Thinking Methodology.

Browse our library of 100+ free articles and learn strategies you can start using right away. We’re constantly adding material based on the latest research and our evolving client work—so visit our library often and stay informed!

Browse Articles

Core Curricula Across all Ages

We Thinkers! (Ages 4-7)

We Thinkers! (Ages 4-7)

This one-of-a-kind series combines kid-friendly storybook adventures with educator-friendly curricula and support materials to bring Social Thinking lessons to life. Teachers, clinicians, and parents are using the We Thinkers! series to develop social-emotional learning in all children, not just those with special needs.

Superflex (Ages 7-10+)

Superflex (Ages 7-10+)

The amazing world of Superflex teaches kids how to overcome inflexible thinking patterns, build valuable self-awareness, self-monitoring, and ultimately, self-regulation skills for use in school, community, and home!

Tweens & Teens

Help tweens and teens navigate their social worlds, develop strong social competencies, deal with flirting and dating, and manage social anxiety. Our targeted strategies help adolescents with social emotional learning challenges better understand what’s going on with them and their peers as social expectations become increasingly complex with age.

Young Adult & Adult

As we age, our social competencies are expected to become more sophisticated. This can be difficult to keep up with for even the savviest social minds! Get practical strategies to help young adults & adults manage increasingly complex social demands. Learn strategies to foster social competencies, relationship development, and independent living skills while helping individuals experience deeper well-being.

The Zones of Regulation (All Students)

The Zones of Regulation (All Students)

The Zones of Regulation is a framework and easy-to-use curriculum teaching students strategies for emotional and sensory self-management rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy. By understanding social context and how their feelings impact those around them, students learn improved emotional control, sensory regulation, self-awareness, and problem-solving abilities.

Core Materials (All Ages)

Social Thinking offers a collection of core materials that guide teaching our concepts to individuals of all ages. These products are written for parents, professionals, and any other stakeholder in the life of a child, student, or client with social learning challenges. They have also proved helpful in supporting social-emotional learning in neurotypical children! In these core materials, social learning experts explain the concepts, frameworks, and strategies to help you teach social competencies.

Courses to Get Started

Teaching Our Vocabulary, Frameworks & Motivational Strategies

Teaching Our Vocabulary, Frameworks & Motivational Strategies

Discover some of Social Thinking's core treatment frameworks and Social Thinking Vocabulary, plus learn fresh strategies to motivate social learning. Includes unique modules designed to introduce young learners to basic Social Thinking concepts, and to help teens learn how to foster friendships, find motivation, and converse more effectively.

Managing Social Anxiety & Regulating Emotions

Managing Social Anxiety & Regulating Emotions

Social anxiety is a compelling problem for many students, with or without diagnostic labels. In this module, social anxiety will be defined in comparison to general anxiety, shyness, introversion, and sensory overload. You will learn how to teach students about their own social thinking, social problem solving, and social skills to foster social competencies.

Implementing the Social Thinking Methodology with Fidelity (Superflex & Social Detective)

Implementing the Social Thinking Methodology with Fidelity (Superflex & Social Detective)

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.

Recommended Webinars

Expected & Unexpected Behavior

Expected & Unexpected Behavior

Join Michelle Garcia Winner and explore the hidden expectations that surround us whether we are 4 years old or 40! Learn the dos and don’ts for using our popular terms “expected behavior” and “unexpected behavior” to best support your students, clients, and children. Help them figure out what’s expected by building awareness of situations, people, and social context—and identifying what they expect from others.

The Social Competency Model: Teaching Social Competencies More Than Social Skills

The Social Competency Model: Teaching Social Competencies More Than Social Skills

Many of those with challenges developing social competencies struggle with far more than learning social skills. In this webinar, Michelle Garcia Winner, the founder of Social Thinking, discusses our new evidence-based Social Competency Model to bring to light a four-step developmental process to help students evolve in their social competencies.

Size of the Problem

Size of the Problem

We encounter problems of different sizes that can cause negative emotions. For younger kids, we teach that it’s expected to match the size of our reaction to the size of the problem. For example, small problems warrant small reactions or none at all—however, this often requires emotional regulation—and that is easier said than done! Join Michelle Garcia Winner as she cracks open problem solving and emotional responses and shares developmentally based strategies to help individuals navigate it all.

Must-Read Articles

Social Behavior Starts with Social Thought: The Four Steps of Perspective Taking

Social thinking dominates our overall thinking time in a day. We use social thinking before, during and after a social encounter. Social thought helps us determine how best to shape our behavior so that others have good thoughts about us in return. If our goal is to help our students become better social thinkers, simply teaching a social skill is not enough. We must also teach these students about the presence of other people's own minds and social thoughts.

Understanding Core Social Thinking Challenges: The ILAUGH Model

Understanding Core Social Thinking Challenges: The ILAUGH Model

The ILAUGH Model of Social Thinking 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 extensive literature of both seminal and current research and represents the foundation of all Social Thinking concepts.

Managing Impulsivity Through Self-Regulation

Managing Impulsivity Through Self-Regulation

Impulsivity is tied to self-regulation (sensory and emotional). Several Social Thinking concepts relate to treatments that encourage the impulsive student to expand self-awareness of his or her own physical and emotional states. Developing strategies that build awareness of the thoughts and feelings of one's self and of others is the first step. We then relate how each of us responds to expected versus unexpected behaviors in different social contexts.

Over time, our teachings can help people cultivate relationships and improve performance at school and at work. For over 20 years our experts have been a guiding resource for schools, clinics, and families around the world, and we’re here for you, too. Whether you're teaching individuals with ADHD, autism spectrum (levels 1 or 2), social communication disorders, or an entire mainstream class-our strategies can help you help them.

This has been a game changer for helping general education teachers better understand our ‘awkward’ kids who just don't get it. We have been using the Social Thinking Methodology with our students, they are making friends, are more successful academically, and generally happier in all they do. Thank you! - Jennifer, Special Education Teacher

What People Are Saying

Schools

"I appreciate how the Social Thinking Methodology links social intent/thinking and the common core or school based standards. This connection, and the understanding that exists, is so crucial to every member of a student's school community."

Peggy, 3rd Grade Teacher

Mental Health & Clinicians

"The Social Thinking Methodology is the philosophy that I ascribe to professionally. It serves as my guide through assessment and intervention."

Greg, School Psychologist

Speech Language Pathologists

"I love how realistic the approach is, and doable! Based on real clinical experience adaptable to individual needs/strengths. Great that all the vocabulary is simple, easy to understand, and not full of professional shop talk."

Amy, SLP

Parents & Families

"Social Thinking’s program has given me the much needed tools to communicate in a meaningful way with my 9-year-old son. Thank you. The stress level in our house has decreased along with the meltdowns. He is able to come out of the meltdowns much more readily."

Tammy, Mom of 9 year-old boy

Adult Clients

"I am a professional, high-functioning 37 year old woman diagnosed as being on the spectrum two years ago. The Social Thinking Methodology is by far the most helpful resource I have encountered. It would not be an exaggeration to say that it changed my life. Your concrete examples are extremely helpful."

Adult with Autism

Browse Product Catalog

The Social Thinking Training and Speakers' Collaborative (STTSC) consists of 13 clinicians, including Michelle Garcia Winner and Dr. Pamela Crooke, who train around the world on the Social Thinking Methodology in addition to working closely with schools, clients, and families. All of our speakers have an active caseload and provide training to help schools embed Social Thinking’s teachings across all aspects of the educational day in public and private schools. We also work with universities as well as businesses to help adults continue to develop stronger social communication skills. Please note that the members of our STTSC are the only people licensed and approved to give training on the Social Thinking Methodology.

The speaker did an excellent job at keeping our attention and broke the information down in a way that was easy to understand and gave us a process to help ensure we could implement what we learned.
- Special Ed. Teacher, School Training

Learn More

Michelle Garcia Winner Founder & CEO Social Thinking • M.A., CCC-SLP

Pamela Crooke PhD, CCC-SLP • Chief Strategy Officer

Kari Zweber Palmer MA, CCC-SLP

Ryan Hendrix MS, CCC-SLP

Nancy Clements MA, CCC-SLP

Nancy Tarshis MA, MS, CCC-SLP

Renee Attaway MS, CCC-SLP

Debbie Meringolo MA, MS, Educator

Beckham Linton MA, CCC-SLP

Ariela Jokel PhD, CCC-SLP

Chithra Kathiresan B. App. Sc., SLP

Personalized Training for Your School or Clinic

Social Thinking offers a wide array of all day and partial day courses and embedded school trainings to fit your needs. Our speakers collectively instruct over 15 courses offering practical concepts and strategies to boost the social learning process and academic achievement that can be used across settings, such as in the classroom, on the playground, at home, at work, and in the community. Each course covers a specific topic, from working with early learners, to the transition to adulthood; to helping mature adults improve executive functioning skills. Each speaker has unique specialties that align with the courses they instruct.

Book a Speaker

View Cart

Items

Your Shopping Cart

Your Savings

Order Subtotal

Keep Browsing View Cart

Helping over 1 million educators, clinicians & families around the world

Back to School Resources

Self-Regulation Webinar

Featured Resources

Developmental Resources for Building Social Competencies Across all Ages

Core Curricula Across all Ages

Courses to Get Started

Recommended Webinars

Must-Read Articles

Helping You Help Others

What People Are Saying

Our Speakers: Global Training Experts

Personalized Training for Your School or Clinic

Helping over 1 million educators, clinicians & families around the world

Back to School Resources

Self-Regulation Webinar

Featured Resources

Live Events

Discover the latest strategies from the experts. The learning is infinite.

Developmental Resources for Building Social Competencies Across all Ages

Core Curricula Across all Ages

Courses to Get Started

Recommended Webinars

Must-Read Articles

The Zones of Regulation is part of our larger Social Thinking Methodology. Browse the entire Zones collection alongside our most related material.

Helping You Help Others

What People Are Saying

Free Webinars

Discover how to teach concepts at the core of “being social”

Our Speakers: Global Training Experts

Personalized Training for Your School or Clinic