# socialthinking.com

> AI-optimized mirror of socialthinking.com containing 50 pages totalling 46,721 words of clean markdown content, structured data, and semantic HTML. Original source: https://socialthinking.com. Last updated: 2026-09-02T04:02:42.677Z.

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## Homepage

- [Social Thinking Connects Academic Learning to Social Learning](/content/site-root.html): Helping over 2 million educators, clinicians & families around the world. Strategies to teach essential life skills including social emotional and academic learning across all environments: home, school, and work.  (458 words)

## Articles & Blog Posts

- [Social Thinking's Award-Winning Products](/content/award-winning-products/index.html): For more than 25 years, Social Thinking (Think Social Publishing) has been a go to source for educators, therapists and caregivers seeking common sense strategies, curricula, and tools. We believe that publishing materials should be driven by input from families and educators who are seeking ways to support their children or students to meet their self-determined social goals. Because of this, our books and games always have input from our clients and families, and are tested by schools and therapists before we publish them for the broader community.  (2,017 words)
- [Digital Products](/content/digital-products/index.html): Our newest and most popular digital products make it easy for teachers, children and students explore social learning, build social awareness, problem solve, and self-regulation with our digital products. (1,765 words)
- [Back-to-School Resources](/content/back-to-school-resources/index.html): Heading back to school means helping students adjust to new teachers, new routines, new expectations, and new social situations. For educators, therapists, and parents, it's also a time to find the right tools to support that transition. This resource hub brings together articles, lessons, strategies, and activities from the Social Thinking® Methodology and beyond to support the social, academic, and executive functioning skills students use every day.  (2,350 words)
- [We Thinkers! Digital Products](/content/digital-products/we-thinkers/index.html): We Thinkers! is our foundational social emotional learning curriculum series for helping social learners ages 4–7 develop fundamental social competencies. Storybooks from We Thinkers! Volume 1 and 2 series teach kids core Social Thinking Vocabulary and concepts to support their social learning. (1,085 words)
- [Schoolwide Implementation](/content/conferences/schoolwide/index.html): Explore how your school can bring Social Thinking® to support schoolwide implementation of social learning using the Social Thinking Methodology. Watch Our Free Videos on the 10 Core Social Thinking Vocabulary and much more! (2,043 words)
- [Superflex Series](/content/detective-superflex-series-social-learning-curriculum.html): Help children ages 5-10+ make sense of the social world with our highly engaging Social Detective & Superflex Series. Students learn social observation, social awareness, perspective taking, flexible thinking, and self-regulation through fun, practical lessons and activities. (1,437 words)
- [Directory of Clinical Trainees](/content/clinic-services/professional-directory/index.html): We are frequently asked to provide the names of professionals who use the Social Thinking Methodology in their programs or services in local communities or across states and countries. To make this information easily available, we created an online Directory of Clinical Trainees to provide a resource listing the names of clinicians and educators who have attended our Clinical Training Program. This list is comprised primarily of professionals (and some parents) who sought additional observation-based training related to applying the Social Thinking Methodology.  (709 words)
- [The Zones of Regulation Digital Products](/content/digital-products/zones-of-regulation/index.html): The Zones of Regulation curriculum has been helping students ages 4+ worldwide for more than 10 years. We are thrilled and proud to provide you with new digital resources to use with The Zones of Regulation curriculum, providing you with flexible options for teaching self-regulation concepts and strategies more deeply. (1,297 words)
- [Social Detective & Superflex Series Digital Products](/content/digital-products/social-detective-superflex/index.html): Use You are a Social Detective! and Superflex…A Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum to boost social awareness and self-regulation. Everyone of us is a Social Detective. We are good Social Detectives when we use our eyes, ears, and brains to figure out what others are doing, planning to do next, and what they mean by their words and actions.  (1,261 words)
- [Social Thinking Peer-Reviewed Evidence](/content/evidence/peer-reviewed/index.html): There are currently handful of peer-reviewed studies related to various components of the Social Thinking Methodology. However, these are not studies of the entire methodology!  Please note that some research organizations require purchase or for complete access to their study. (1,017 words)
- [Social Thinking Course Descriptions](/content/conferences/course-descriptions/index.html): Our conference & seminar training courses we share the latest frameworks, lessons, and strategies for teaching social thinking and related social skills to people ages 4 years old through adulthood. We offer 14 full-day courses, each offering unique concepts and strategies regarding a particular theme or age group. All information presented can be used immediately in the classroom, home, community, and workplace! (2,055 words)
- [Authors We Love: Anna Vagin](/content/anna-vagin/index.html): Anna Vagin, PhD, is a licensed speech/language pathologist with over 30 years of experience. Currently in private practice in Marin County, California, she provides individual sessions and social learning groups to families and children 8 years through young adulthood. Her particular interests are using media and gaming, including Therapeutically Applied Role-Playing Games, to support students with social cognition and language differences, and the role of mental processes in communication, relationships, and life satisfaction. (925 words)
- [Social Thinking Training & Speakers' Collaborative](/content/collaborative/index.html): The Social Thinking Training & Speakers' Collaborative (STTSC) consists of 12 clinicians, including Michelle Garcia Winner and 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. (1,429 words)
- [Kari Zweber Palmer](/content/speakers/kari-zweber-palmer/index.html): Kari Zweber Palmer is a speech-language pathologist/social-cognitive therapist at her private practice, Changing Perspectives, in Excelsior, MN. She has co-authored, We Thinkers Volume 1 and 2. (709 words)
- [Key Topics:  loneliness, social anxiety, empathy, relationship development, misbehavior](/content/online-training/recorded-events/combating-loneliness-misbehavior-relationship-building.html): Combat the national loneliness epidemic with research-based strategies. Cultivate meaningful relationships for well-being, kindness, empathy, and generosity. Crucial for children, tweens, teens, and adults. (417 words)
- [Continuing Education Credit for Livestream, On Demand, and Face-to-Face Conferences](/content/continuing-education/index.html): When you register as a Professional for a livestream, On Demand or face-to-face conference sponsored by Social Thinking (i.e., the conference has a dedicated page on our website) you gain access to CE credit at no additional cost. Find your profession below to learn about your CE options. Each course clearly states how much time of instruction can be applied towards CE credit. Each attendee will be given a certificate of attendance and a course agenda as proof of participation. For information about CE credit offered by livestream or recorded events NOT sponsored by Social Thinking, please contact the sponsoring organization. (1,618 words)
- [Let's Solve It](/content/digital-products/lets-solve-it/index.html): Let’s Solve It! Step-by-Step Social Problem Solving with Kids, 3-book Teaching Set, gives educators, therapists, parents, and caregivers a structured, visual, step-by-step way to teach kids about social problem solving through illustrated stories and problem-solving templates. Two storybooks help kids explore situations through multiple perspectives, while the companion teaching templates enhance understanding of basic concepts, encourage engagement, and build critical thinking skills. (377 words)
- [Chithra Kathiresan](/content/speakers/chithra-kathiresan/index.html): Chithra Kathiresan is a speech-language therapist who has lived and worked in Singapore for more than 28 years. She trains professionals, parents, and teachers extensively both locally and in the region.  (1,175 words)
- [Social Thinking and Me Digital Kids' Guidebook](/content/digital-products/social-thinking-and-me/index.html): Social Thinking and Me is a powerhouse of social knowledge to help children in upper elementary and middle school transition into the more socially-complex and socially-demanding older grades and become stronger social problem solvers. This new digital guidebook provides an engaging platform to teach children, students or clients about social awareness and self-regulation. It is designed to help children in upper elementary and middle school transition into the more socially-complex and socially-demanding older grades and become stronger social problem solvers. (637 words)
- [Cancellation Policies](/content/cancellations/index.html): We love having you as our customer, and we understand that sometimes things happen that warrant you cancelling an order or registration to one of our events. We will make every effort to work with you around changes in your plans, with some restrictions. Please visit our Cancellation policies page to learn more. (754 words)
- [Conversation & Social Connection](/content/conversation-social-connection/index.html): 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? (706 words)
- [Key Topics: Executive Functioning Strategies, Organizational Skills, Getting Things Done](/content/online-training/recorded-events/develop-executive-functions/index.html): This course explores the role of executive functions across school and home environments. We explain strategies for tackling motivation, time prediction, prioritizing workload, and tracking multiple assignments simultaneously. We review key executive functioning skills and practical metacognitively based strategies to help individuals track and tackle homework and other deadline-based responsibilities. (412 words)
- [Key Topics: social mind, early childhood, learning through play](/content/online-training/recorded-events/building-social-mind-in-early-childhood/index.html): Guide parents in fostering self-regulation. Our course emphasizes using the social mind for early learners, incorporating stories, activities, & play. Learn strategies to enhance children's understanding of thoughts, feelings, & group dynamics. (358 words)
- [Key topics: Social Thinking Methodology, Classroom Setup, Social Competency Model, Visual Supports](/content/online-training/social-thinking-schoolwide-foundations-classroom-setup.html): Part 1 of this two-part series explores how classrooms, schools, and districts can use concepts from the Social Thinking Methodology within their everyday learning environments. Participants will learn creative ways to design classrooms and other spaces using visual tools and supports to make abstract social concepts more understandable and accessible. From setting up the environment to selecting developmental tools, we’ll show to embed social learning to support academic learning in sustainable and practical ways.  (273 words)
- [Leah Kuypers, Guest Speaker](/content/speakers/leah-kuypers/index.html): Leah Kuypers, MA Ed., OTR/L, creator of The Zones of Regulation, offers training and consultation globally on regulation and behavior. Author of the book, apps, and more, she conducts workshops worldwide. (356 words)
- [Key topics: problem solving, social awareness, critical thinking](/content/online-training/recorded-events/helping-literal-thinkers-social-awareness/index.html): 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.   (266 words)
- [Key Topics: motivation, executive functions, anxiety, growth mindset, perfectionism](/content/online-training/recorded-events/fostering-motivation-tips/index.html): Explore motivation myths, contrast with research and proven methods. Aid individuals in tackling goals, addressing barriers like anxiety, perfectionism, and digital distractions. Provide practical strategies for empowerment. (402 words)
- [Social Situation Mapping](/content/digital-products/social-situation-mapping/index.html): What’s going on around us influences our thoughts, feelings, and choices. Social Situation Mapping (formerly Social Behavior Mapping) teaches learners how to use social observation to figure out what do or say (or not do and say) based on the situation. Revised, updated, and retitled, this practical book includes 80+ completed Social Situation Maps to explore 40+ common situations at school, home, and in the community. The maps outline the Social Emotional Chain Reaction, which shows how we all impact one another when sharing space, and provide multiple options for choices and their consequences through the learner’s perspective. (655 words)
- [Key Topics: social problem solving; social to academic connection; teaching frameworks and strategies](/content/online-training/recorded-events/implementing-social-thinking-concepts-vocabulary/index.html): 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. (418 words)
- [Damon Korb, Guest Speaker](/content/speakers/damon-korb/index.html): Damon Korb, M.D., a board certified behavioral and developmental pediatrician, examines the neurodevelopmental brain functions that determine how a child learns, behaves, and socializes.  (424 words)
- [In-Person Events](/content/conferences/index.html): As a leader in social, academic, and organizational resources for more than 25 years, we’ve been honored to serve our community with multi-day, in-person conferences throughout the United States and globally. Coming together face-to-face to learn with and from each other is what feeds our knowledge, improves our practice, and sustains our passion for supporting social learners from age four throughout mature adulthood. The Social Thinking® Methodology is dynamic and adaptive to the needs of our learners, and we strive to respond to the needs and desires of our community of educators, therapists, and parents or caregivers. (593 words)
- [Neurodiversity & the Social Thinking Methodology](/content/collaborating-and-supporting-neurodivergent-community.html): Our work has been, and continues to be, about valuing the input and point of view of the Neurodivergent (ND) community. We do not create materials, books, and games in a vacuum without meaningful dialogue and shared input with ND clients and their families. This is an ongoing effort, and the language we use to teach continually evolves with the feedback we receive. Our ND clients are aware and proud that their stories and insights are used to teach professionals and parents. They are honored to share how they think and learn, their struggles, and their triumphs and propose ways to consider teaching others with similar learning styles. (1,176 words)
- [Anna Vagin, Guest Speaker](/content/speakers/anna-vagin/index.html): Anna Vagin, PhD, is a licensed speech/language pathologist with over 30 years of experience. Currently in private practice in Marin County, California, she provides individual sessions and social learning groups to families and children 8 years through young adulthood. (351 words)
- [Key topics: executive functioning, time travel thinking, inner coaching, social anxiety](/content/online-training/recorded-events/executive-functioning-strategies-for-teens/index.html): 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.  (219 words)
- [Social Thinking @ Work](/content/digital-products/social-thinking-at-work/index.html): Most people are born with an intuitive sense of the social world that allows them to naturally be aware of social expectations and feeds them the information they need to follow the social code. But not everyone is born with intuitive social understanding. Social learning differences and/or challenges can be especially noticeable in the workplace, where it’s assumed employees understand not only how to do their job but how to effectively work in a group, understand the hidden rules of office etiquette and office politics, and build and maintain solid professional relationships with others. (479 words)
- [Social Thinking Frameworks Digital Collection](/content/digital-products/social-thinking-frameworks/index.html): The social world is vast and complex, kids are complicated, and there’s so much information! Here’s where you’ll find the best of the Social Thinking® Methodology distilled into a two-set collection of our 26 core teaching frameworks for helping social learners unpack and figure out how to navigate the social world in a concrete, visual way.  (242 words)
- [Key Topics: self-regulation, perspective taking, executive functions, organized thinking, friendship](/content/online-training/recorded-events/raising-an-organized-child-promote-executive-functions.html): Dr. Damon Korb & Michelle Garcia Winner link executive functions to organized thinking in 2 keynotes. Damon guides parents with 5 steps for an organized child. Michelle explores creative strategies for fostering tween & teen friendships. (358 words)
- [Socially Curious and Curiously Social](/content/digital-products/socially-curious-and-curiously-social/index.html): This detailed guidebook was developed with the input of neurodivergent teens and young adults as a way to help 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 how the social world works using real-life teen situations.  (262 words)
- [Social Thinking's In-Person Clinical Training Program](/content/clinic-services/clinical-training/index.html): Our Clinical Training Program is an advanced three-day training to deeply explore the Social Thinking Methodology. Be part of a small group of professionals who observe our therapists working with different ages and conducting an assessment.  (642 words)
- [Social Thinking Clinics & Services](/content/clinic-services/index.html): Michelle Garcia Winner, MA, CCC-SLP, the founder of Social Thinking, opened her first clinic, The Center for Social Thinking, in 1998 to provide services for people with social learning challenges. Her common-sense teaching approach (now called the Social Thinking Methodology) helped many of her clients develop social competencies in a way no other program had done before – and word spread. Her client base grew quickly and so did the demand for information, training, and products to help serve people worldwide. (403 words)
- [Key topics: Executive Functioning, Time Tracker, Independant Planning](/content/online-training/recorded-events/executive-function-back-to-school-strategies/index.html): 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! (377 words)
- [Brain Hacks Graphic Novel & Thinksheets](/content/digital-products/brain-hacks/index.html): Brain Hacks graphic novel and the companion workbook, Thinksheets for Brain Hacks, shares practical strategies for tweens and teens to build their executive function skills. They will learn how thoughts, feelings, memories, and imagination can team up to build confidence, motivation, and problem-solving skills. Thee books are packed with useful neurodiversity affirming tools to help students (and their support team) apply the concepts shared in the graphic novel to their daily lives. (163 words)
- [Beckham Linton](/content/speakers/beckham-linton/index.html): Beckham has worked in a variety of settings since 1990 and developed an early interest in social communication while working in acute care and rehabilitation settings in the Midwes (494 words)
- [Key Topics:  life skills, teens, anxiety, metacognitive tools, executive functioning](/content/online-training/recorded-events/5-critical-life-skills-tweens-to-young-adult/index.html): Discover vital life skills for 11-22-year-olds with social and organizational differences. Tackle social, emotional, and academic learning and organized thinking using explicit frameworks and practical strategies. Essential for homes, schools, and clinics. (360 words)
- [Ariela Jokel](/content/speakers/ariela-jokel/index.html): Ariela Jokel, PhD, CCC-SLP is a speech-language pathologist with extensive experience working at child development centers in the US and Israel. (528 words)
- [Key Topics: conversations, social connection, executive function, social awareness](/content/online-training/recorded-events/small-talk-conversation-strategies/index.html): In this online course, unravel the complexities of small talk and conversations. Break them into components to build strategies for social engagement in children, teens, and adults, fostering meaningful connections. (338 words)
- [Key Topics: social problem solving, self-reflection, social competencies](/content/online-training/recorded-events/concentration-focus-digital-age/index.html): 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. (310 words)
- [Free Articles & Strategies](/content/articles/index.html) (9,203 words)

## About Pages

- [About](/content/about/index.html): At Social Thinking®, our mission is to help people develop their social competencies to better connect with others and live happier, more meaningful lives. We create unique treatment frameworks and strategies to help individuals as young as four and across the lifespan develop their social thinking and social skills to meet their personal social goals. (418 words)

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