Conversation & Social Connection

New Book!

Healthy Relationships: A Guided Journal for Teens

Help Social Learners Build Strategies That Support Connection

Conversation is hard to do! For something that is so basic to human interaction and social connection, engaging in conversation requires a complex array of social competencies and, at times, is surprisingly difficult to pull off successfully. How do we teach social learners of all ages the why and how of developing meaningful connection with others through face-to-face conversations at home, school, in the workplace, and within their communities?

Whether we have conversations to share information, communicate physical and emotional needs, or simply to develop a personal connection through small talk, we cannot just follow a reliable script for how they will unfold. We can, however, learn to increase our social awareness, organize our thinking before conversations begin, and practice strategies to keep the connection going. Explore our broad range of resources for teaching conversation and connection to help guide social learners in some of the most significant learning of their lives.

Ages 4-7

• We Thinkers! Volume 1 Social Explorers Deluxe Package
  Ages: Ages 4-7 Curriculum & Storybooks
  Our premier social learning package for children ages 4–7 helps develop foundational social competencies. The multiple award-winning We Thinkers! Volume 1: Social Explorers includes five storybooks and a thorough unit-by-unit curriculum. The storybooks correspond to and support detailed lessons for teaching five evidence-based concepts that establish a common social vocabulary for early learners and are fundamental to all social experiences.

• We Thinkers! Volume 2 Social Problem Solvers Deluxe Package
  Ages: Ages 4-7 Curriculum & Storybooks
  Building on the core social concepts and vocabulary introduced in We Thinkers! Volume 1, multiple award-winning Volume 2 provides the structure, curriculum, storybooks, and support materials to teach executive functioning and social problem solving to neurotypical children ages 4–7 in a classroom setting, as well as to Neurodivergent students who might have social learning differences and/or challenges.

• Make Social and Emotional Learning Stick!
  Ages: Ages 4-11 Activities
  Caregivers and teachers! Here are 185+ user-friendly, adaptable activities, demonstrations, and rehearsal opportunities to support social, emotional, and academic learning in early learners in diverse social settings—from the dinner table, to the school setting, to the greater community.

Elementary School (Ages 8-11)

• People Files to Conversations Bundle: Part 1 (Digital Download)
  Ages: Ages 7-11 Activities
  This is a bundle set of 5 Thinksheets (14 pages) in a series of lessons teaching about what we call PEOPLE FILES. People files help us to understand ourselves and others. They are foundational tools for having conversations.

• People Files + Asking Questions = Detectives Bundle: Part 2 (Digital Download)
  Ages: Ages 7-11 Activities
  This is a bundle of 11 thinksheets that contain lessons that build and extend on Part 1: People files to Conversations Bundle. In this Part 2, students learn about Question words and how to use their observational skills to make people files that help them to ask others questions and in the process learn about being a Social Detective.

• You Are a Social Detective!: Curriculum Guide + Storybook
  Ages: Ages 5-10+ Curriculum & Storybook
  Bring social, emotional, and academic learning for children ages 5-10+ into your classroom—and save 10%! This bundle includes the award-winning storybook, You Are a Social Detective! 2nd Edition and its new companion Teaching Curriculum & Support Guide, an easy-to-use curriculum that fits into your current teaching day.

Tweens, Teens, Young Adults

• Healthy Relationships
  Ages: Ages 11-18
  Relationships during the teen years can be amazing, confusing, exciting—and sometimes a little messy. This empowering journal is your tween/teen's personal guide to figuring it all out. Through thoughtful prompts, honest conversations, and room to reflect, this journal helps them explore what makes relationships work—and what doesn't.

• Socially Curious and Curiously Social
  Ages: Young Adult
  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 that helps social learners sail the stormy seas of dating, texting, lies, and everyday relationships.

• Social Thinking at Work
  Ages: Adult
  This award-winning book unpacks the power of our social cognition. It’s written for both neurotypical and Neurodivergent teen and adult readers to better understand the powerful ways in which we “read” not only what people mean by what they say, but also how others perceive how we emotionally relate.