If there ever was a buzzword in the last few years to use with any of your social students, it has got to be "expected” and “unexpected.” These two words, coined by Michelle Garcia Winner and the Social Thinking team as part of their larger Social …
Social Communication
Using Social Thinking® Vocabulary with my OWN child
I remember thinking to myself, “This is what my clients and their families tell me happens in their homes,” but my child doesn’t have Autism Spectrum Disorder or ADHD. In fact, she doesn’t have any known diagnoses that I am aware …
Why you should STOP using conversation topic cards
Be honest here. How often do you have an extended conversation about your favorite food? I mean sure, you might get three exchanges maximum, but then it pretty much falls flat, right? Conversations naturally bend and move. They are fluid. And this is …
Easy Tips to Teaching Social Thinking Vocabulary
In that moment when I was trying to assess my student (who, mind you, was investigating the scrolled ring binders on the assessment book and looking everywhere around the room but at the sequence of pictures he was supposed to be tapping), …