How do I get started? If you want to start learning more information about Social Thinking I would recommend first getting the book Thinking About You Thinking About Me, 2nd Edition by Michelle Garcia Winner. Social Thinking challenges are “commonly experienced by individuals with autism spectrum disorders (high-functioning), social communication disorder, Asperger’s, ADHD, nonverbal learning disability (NLD) and similar diagnoses, children and adults experiencing social learning difficulties often have received no diagnosis.” (). The Social Thinking methods to build social thinking and related skills can be used with young preschool students all the way through adulthood. Who can I use it with? Many of my students have social language challenges. And how we think about people affects how we behave, which in turn affects how others respond to us, which in turn affects our own emotions.” () What is Social Thinking? – “Social thinking is what we do when we interact with people: we think about them.
Michelle Garcia winner also has resources and material for preschool students which I’ll talk about at a later time. There is so much material and resources from Michelle Garcia Winner you can use with your students. It has been so beneficial for my higher functioning students and fun to teach. For these students those social language deficits make our students stand out from their typically developing peers.Ī few years ago I started using Social Thinking Material from Michelle Garcia Winner and my students love it! With my older higher functioning students, I am now working on Superflex (a superhero social thinking curriculum) and learning about the sneaky Unthinkables that attack our brains! If I walk in the classroom with a new Superflex material or book, I can barely get in the door before the students are trying to see what we are doing that day or taking the material out of my hand!įor those of you new to Social Thinking it is definitely worth checking out. Being a good conversationalist is very difficult for our students with social language challenges. I love teaching and working on pragmatic language skills with my higher level students.
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