Social Thinking Resources for All Ages
Social Thinking has helped more than 2.5 million people around the world for over 25 years
Social, emotional, and academic learning is a lifelong journey. At some point, we all struggle in social situations, and engaging in a social problem solving and feeling-based process can be difficult at times for everyone in the social world—at home, at school, at work, and within the community. But, understanding and considering our own and others' thoughts and feelings is essential for understanding most academic subjects. And when we work in groups (which we will throughout our lives), we need to be able to collaborate effectively with others, which requires taking and getting different perspectives, sharing ideas, and resolving conflicts. This is social thinking (thinking socially), and this critical learning is expected to develop and evolve throughout our lives as we work toward our own and collective goals.
That’s why the Social Thinking® Methodology offers a diverse array of research-informed resources, training, curricula, practical strategies, and visual tools for Neurodivergent and neurotypical social learners with solid to strong expressive and receptive language skills and all developmental ages, from 4 –80.
Teachers, speech-language pathologists, counselors, parents, and therapists just like you have used our lessons & strategies for more than 25 years. The Social Thinking Methodology provides evidence-based strategies to help people develop their social competencies, flexible thinking & social problem solving to improve: conversation & social connection, executive functioning, friendship & relationship development, perspective taking, self-regulation, and Social Thinking vocabulary. Our conceptual and teaching frameworks show interventionists, children, students, and clients how the social world operates and why through concrete, specific vocabulary and explicit, step-by-step instruction. And it provides developmentally based strategies and engaging activities to support social learners ages four through mature adulthood in moving toward improvement in their own social goals.
Explore our broad range of products, online courses, conferences, and free resources for teaching practical concepts, vocabulary, and strategies to help guide social learners in some of the most significant learning of their lives.
Core Products Across All Ages
Thinking About YOU Thinking About ME, 2nd Edition
Thinking About YOU Thinking About ME, 2nd Edition
Ages: 4+
Our informative and accessible bestseller is ground zero for understanding and applying core components of the Social Thinking Methodology. It explores the social learning process and weaves together research with ways to teach specific social competencies. Introduces core treatment frameworks and related strategies and presents the Social Thinking Dynamic Assessment Protocol. Foundational reading for professionals and family members.
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$54.99
Think Social! A Social Thinking Curriculum for School-Age Students
Think Social! A Social Thinking Curriculum for School-Age Students
Ages: 4+
Think Social! is a comprehensive curriculum that includes over 69 Social Thinking® evidenced-informed concepts, frameworks, and strategies. A valuable resource for any professional or parent teaching social emotional concepts to school-age students—including both neurotypicals and Neurodivergents with social learning differences and/or challenges. The curriculum has basic suggestions for linking lessons to academic standards.
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$91.99
Why Teach Social Thinking?
Why Teach Social Thinking?
Ages: 4+
This unique resource explores core questions related to the importance of social emotional learning in academic, professional, and personal well-being. Why Teach details how components of the Social Thinking® Methodology can support learning in a group, paying attention, self-regulating emotions, and even improving academic performance. It also addresses the evidence-informed and research base that is foundational to the Social Thinking® Methodology. Includes a free readers’ study guide.
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$29.99
The Zones of Regulation: A Curriculum Designed to Foster Self-Regulation and Emotional Control
The Zones of Regulation: A Curriculum Designed to Foster Self-Regulation and Emotional Control
Ages: 4+
New updated emotions illustrations! This popular, easy-to-use framework and award-winning curriculum teaches strategies for managing emotions and sensory needs to individuals ages 4+. Rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy, the framework uses four colors to help individuals identify how they are feeling in the moment given their energy, emotions, and level of alertness, creating a colored system to guide them to metacognitive strategies and tools to support regulation. Help students learn how to understand and regulate their emotions, manage their sensory needs, and become more self-aware and skillful problem solvers.
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$59.99
Social Situation Mapping: Making Sense of the Social World
Social Situation Mapping: Making Sense of the Social World
Ages: 8+
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 to do or say (or not do and say) based on the situation. Revised, updated, and retitled, this hands-on 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.
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$25.99
Visual Supports for 10 Key Social Thinking Vocabulary Concepts
Visual Supports for 10 Key Social Thinking Vocabulary Concepts
Ages: 4+
These colorful visual supports (11” x 14”) promote the active use of 10 Social Thinking® Vocabulary concepts that lay the foundation for social emotional learning using the Social Thinking® Methodology. They are a visual way to show abstract elements of the social world in a concrete manner. As you introduce each of the 10 concepts, display the corresponding visual support (mini-poster) as a reminder to think about the concept. Set of 10; not sold individually.
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$24.99
Social Thinking Frameworks Collection | 26 Teaching Frameworks (Sets 1 & 2 Bundle)
Social Thinking Frameworks Collection | 26 Teaching Frameworks (Sets 1 & 2 Bundle)
Ages: 4 - adult
We’ve got 26 powerful visual tools to help you and your social learners crack open the social emotional world—all in one collection. We’ve distilled 25 years of our core learning and teaching into hands-on, ready-to-use , 8.5” x 11” scaffolds to help both interventionists and social learners organize, talk about, understand, and navigate diverse social landscapes.
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$44.99
$49.98
Best Sellers for Early Learners
We Thinkers! All-In-One Bundle
We Thinkers! All-In-One Bundle
Ages: 4-7
Multiple award-winning We Thinkers! is our premier social emotional learning series for helping social learners ages 4–7 develop foundational social competencies. These practice-proven, evidence-based materials are designed for both neurotypically developing children and those with social learning differences and/or challenges to strengthen social perspective taking, self-awareness, executive functioning, social problem solving, and so much more.
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$274.99
$304.98
You Are a Social Detective! Explaining Social Thinking to Kids, 2nd Edition (Storybook)
You Are a Social Detective! Explaining Social Thinking to Kids, 2nd Edition (Storybook)
Ages: 5-10+
A multiple award winner! This first storybook in the Superflex Series introduces the foundational concepts of social observation from the child’s perspective. It encourages kids to become “social detectives” to observe the social world and learn a few of the unique Social Thinking Vocabulary to help them figure out what is happening across different contexts. You Are a Social Detective! 2nd Edition is an award-winning storybook that should be taught over an extended period and revisited often to encourage social learning in all contexts.
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$29.99
You Are a Social Detective! Teaching Curriculum & Support Guide
You Are a Social Detective! Teaching Curriculum & Support Guide
Ages: Adult
You Are a Social Detective! Teaching Curriculum and Support Guide is just the tool you need to bring this important social emotional learning (SEL) into the classroom. Help your students become Social Detectives with this easy-to-use curriculum that fits into your current teaching day. This curriculum provides 10 structured lesson plans and visual tools to support building students’ social attention, social interpretation, and self-awareness—the foundation for social emotional learning for everyone.
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$35.99
You Are a Social Detective!: Curriculum Guide + Storybook (2-book teaching set)
You Are a Social Detective!: Curriculum Guide + Storybook (2-book teaching set)
Ages: 5-10+, Adult
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.
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$59.99
$65.98
Get Started with Ages 5-11 Bundle | The Zones of Regulation Series
Get Started with Ages 5-11 Bundle | The Zones of Regulation Series
Ages: 5-11
Ready to start teaching The Zones of Regulation to children at developmental ages 5-11? This award-winning bundle includes 4 easy-to-use products to get started: The Zones of Regulation curriculum, two storybooks that bring curriculum lessons to life, and a multisensory regulation strategy card deck, which includes over 50 direct instruction tool cards. Use all products together to maximize social learning at home and school.
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$121.99
$134.97
When My Worries Get Too Big! A Relaxation Book for Children Who Live With Anxiety
When My Worries Get Too Big! A Relaxation Book for Children Who Live With Anxiety
Ages: 5-9
The thought of "losing control" can cause major problems for children who live with anxiety. Now, parents, teachers, and students have a helpful tool that provides young children with the opportunity to explore their own feelings with parents or teachers as they experience and react to events in their daily lives. Engaging and easy to read, this award-winning and illustrated children's book is filled with opportunities for children to participate in developing their own self-calming strategies to feel relaxed and ready to focus on work—or play.
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$18.99
The Whole-Brain Child
The Whole-Brain Child
Ages: 8+
This book explores the role different parts of our brains play in managing our own behavior. The authors, a neuropsychiatrist and a parenting expert, illustrate how teaching children about their brains can help them learn to cultivate healthy emotional and intellectual development, in addition to self-management, in order to foster balanced lives that include healthy relationships, success in school, responsible behavior, and positive self-regard. Written for use with children, in language and images they can understand, this book explains and visually depicts simplified neurology paired with 12 concrete metacognitive strategies to help children learn how to better control their actions and reactions.
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$18
Best Sellers for Elementary School
You Are a Social Detective! Explaining Social Thinking to Kids, 2nd Edition (Storybook)
You Are a Social Detective! Explaining Social Thinking to Kids, 2nd Edition (Storybook)
Ages: 5-10+
A multiple award winner! This first storybook in the Superflex Series introduces the foundational concepts of social observation from the child’s perspective. It encourages kids to become “social detectives” to observe the social world and learn a few of the unique Social Thinking Vocabulary to help them figure out what is happening across different contexts. You Are a Social Detective! 2nd Edition is an award-winning storybook that should be taught over an extended period and revisited often to encourage social learning in all contexts.
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$29.99
You Are a Social Detective! Teaching Curriculum & Support Guide
You Are a Social Detective! Teaching Curriculum & Support Guide
Ages: Adult
You Are a Social Detective! Teaching Curriculum and Support Guide is just the tool you need to bring this important social emotional learning (SEL) into the classroom. Help your students become Social Detectives with this easy-to-use curriculum that fits into your current teaching day. This curriculum provides 10 structured lesson plans and visual tools to support building students’ social attention, social interpretation, and self-awareness—the foundation for social emotional learning for everyone.
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$35.99
You Are a Social Detective!: Curriculum Guide + Storybook (2-book teaching set)
You Are a Social Detective!: Curriculum Guide + Storybook (2-book teaching set)
Ages: 5-10+, Adult
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.
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$59.99
$65.98
Get Started with Ages 5-11 Bundle | The Zones of Regulation Series
Get Started with Ages 5-11 Bundle | The Zones of Regulation Series
Ages: 5-11
Ready to start teaching The Zones of Regulation to children at developmental ages 5-11? This award-winning bundle includes 4 easy-to-use products to get started: The Zones of Regulation curriculum, two storybooks that bring curriculum lessons to life, and a multisensory regulation strategy card deck, which includes over 50 direct instruction tool cards. Use all products together to maximize social learning at home and school.
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$121.99
$134.97
Social Thinking and Me (two-book set)
Social Thinking and Me (two-book set)
Ages: 9-12
Our best-selling curriculum for children ages 9-12, The Kids’ Guidebook introduces select Social Thinking Vocabulary through colorful illustrations and easy-to-understand content. This award-winning two-book set provides the teaching tools to break down complex social concepts to make it easier for interventionists to teach and for students to learn. Thinksheets for Social Emotional Learning includes multiple mini-lessons for in-depth exploration of each chapter of The Kids’ Guidebook to help build social learners’ metacognitive awareness and develop practical strategies. Kids enjoy becoming stronger social observers and problem solvers. A natural fit for school, clinic, and home.
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$69.99
Thinksheets for Teaching Social Thinking and Related Skills
Thinksheets for Teaching Social Thinking and Related Skills
Ages: 8-18
This best-selling book provides 175+ ready-to-use mini thinking-based lesson plans and activities (i.e., Thinksheets) to break down, discuss, and then teach Social Thinking® concepts for teaching social learners ages 8-18+. Derived from years of direct work with neurodiverse students, these versatile Thinksheets can be used at home or school, one-on-one or in larger group sessions. Age-coded, the thinksheets are organized into categories that include friendship, perspective taking, self-monitoring, effective communication, problem solving, and more.
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$38.99
Should I? or Shouldn't I? Revised Elementary Edition
Should I? or Shouldn't I? Revised Elementary Edition
Ages: 8-11
Motivate students ages 8-11 to explore social expectations and consider how they perceive, interpret, and emotionally respond to others’ actions and reactions. Use the cards to explore and discuss group expectations across a wide variety of social situations. Teachers, clinicians, and parents can gain information about which social concepts might need deeper teaching. This game leads to greater self-awareness and builds upon social competencies when players talk to each other about their shared social expectations! It also makes thinking and talking about social situations fun and allows kids to explore their own thoughts, perspectives, and behavior choices within a safe and consequences-free environment.
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$34.99
All-in-One Across Age Groups Bundle | The Zones of Regulation Series
All-in-One Across Age Groups Bundle | The Zones of Regulation Series
Ages: 5 - 18
Get in the zone! This bundle provides all the books and games developed to teach students ages 5-18+ The Zones of Regulation curriculum with fidelity. It includes the award-winning core curriculum The Zones of Regulation, the award-winning 2-Storybook Set, two award-winning Tools to Try card decks for different age groups, the Navigating The Zones game, and its supplemental Advanced Pack.
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$229.99
$254.94
Raising an Organized Child
Raising an Organized Child
Ages: 4+
Frustrated parents who are tired of chaos will find concrete, actionable guidance for raising an independent, self-assured, and organized child. Dr Korb defines the neurodevelopmental abilities that are critical for organization and shows parents how to develop their children’s organized thinking skills.
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$16.95
Best Sellers for Tweens, Teens & Young Adults
Social Fortune or Social Fate: A Social Thinking Manga-Style Map for Social Quest Seekers
Social Fortune or Social Fate: A Social Thinking Manga-Style Map for Social Quest Seekers
Ages: 10+
Award winning and kid friendly, this graphic novel-style book uses comic strip scenarios to teach about common social and emotional chain reactions. Co-developed, critiqued, and inspired by Neurodivergent tweens and teens, this book represents the 10 social scenarios they most often encountered. Readers will get to see the choices of three characters and the outcome of those choices (social fortune or social fate). Designed to show “both sides of the [choices] coin,” the book allows students to read the book forward or backwards. Readers also get to see how protagonists’ choices are tied to their own thoughts, their actions or reactions, which ultimately impact how they feel. Each scenario includes either an analysis and strategy codes to decipher the characters’ choices or an “autopsy” for a better understanding of what happened and why.
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$27.99
Socially Curious and Curiously Social: A Social Thinking Guidebook for Bright Teens and Young Adults
Socially Curious and Curiously Social: A Social Thinking Guidebook for Bright Teens and Young Adults
Ages: 14-22
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 with anime illustrations that helps social learners sail the stormy seas of dating, texting, lies, and everyday relationships. Targeted social emotional strategies encourage readers to better navigate their social worlds, develop stronger social competencies, and manage social anxiety. Interventionists (parents, caregivers, and professionals) appreciate how it better equips them to explain the Social Thinking® process, helping young adults learn to use metacognitive strategies to navigate to self-regulate within social situations. Use the free Socially Curious Thinking and Reading Guide with the book to enrich the social learning and conversation.
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$29.99
Social Thinking at Work: Strategies for Understanding and Navigating the Workplace 2nd Edition
Social Thinking at Work: Strategies for Understanding and Navigating the Workplace 2nd Edition
Ages: 18+
This award-winning book unpacks the power of our social cognition. It’s written for both neurotypical and Neurodivergent 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. This book is also a good primer for neurotypical employers/employees or HR departments to read about the experiences and perspectives of Neurodivergent coworkers and perhaps develop empathy for the complexity of the bi-directional social learning process. Provides practical strategies for how to effectively work in a group, understand the hidden rules of the social world—including workplace etiquette and politics—and build relationships.
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$29.99
Social Thinking® Thinksheets for Tweens and Teens: Learning to Read in Between the Social Lines, Revised Edition
Social Thinking® Thinksheets for Tweens and Teens: Learning to Read in Between the Social Lines, Revised Edition
Ages: 11-18
New updated content and language! Find 130+ pages of practical, kid-friendly ideas and tools for the direct instruction of tweens and teens as they learn to navigate the complex social world. The thinksheets are mini-lessons that progress from basic to advanced social emotional concepts, such as considering others’ perspectives, reading hidden social expectations and body language, dealing with bullies, understanding friendship, and many more. Thinksheets extends the teaching of our books for teens, including award-winning Social Fortune or Social Fate and Socially Curious and Curiously Social. Whether for individual or group instruction, interventionists (professionals and parents) can adapt lessons to benefit virtually all social learners.
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$44.99
Should I? or Shouldn’t I? What Would Others Think? Revised Edition for Teens
Should I? or Shouldn’t I? What Would Others Think? Revised Edition for Teens
Ages: 12-18+
Revised and updated, this popular social learning card game provides the all-new Social Interpretation Scale to motivate teens to explore how they perceive, interpret, and emotionally respond to others’ actions and reactions and discuss group expectations across a wide variety of social situations. The new Teaching Guide and Instructions help interventionists shift students’ focus from discussing how someone behaved to instead learning about the power of one’s own social interpretation within a fun, safe, and consequence-free setting. This revised edition extends teaching the concept of the Social Emotional Chain Reaction (SECR), a Social Thinking® Methodology framework.
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$34.99
Tweens & Teens Bundle
Tweens & Teens Bundle
Ages: 10+
Save 10% with this bundle of six books, a two-set collection of 26 teaching frameworks, and card game that speak directly to a variety of social emotional learning needs of tweens and teens—frankly, sometimes with humor, but always encouraging them to learn how the social world works so they can logically learn new social competencies to help them meet their own goals.
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$255.99
$283.92
Strategies to Build Social Competencies
The Social Thinking Methodology provides evidence-based strategies to help people ages four through adult develop their social competencies, flexible thinking & social problem solving to meet their own social goals and improve:
- Conversation & social connection
- Executive functioning
- Friendship & relationship development
- Perspective taking
- Self-regulation
- Social Thinking Vocabulary
What People Are Saying About Social Thinking
Parents & Families
Elementary School
Schools
Mental Health & Clinicians
Speech Language Pathologists
Parents & Families
Adult Clients
