Strategies to Build Social Competencies
For more than 25 years, professionals and parents around the world have been using our expansive collection of resources to teach social competencies. With the Social Thinking Methodology, you gain evidence-based strategies to help people age 4 through adult improve their social competencies, including:
- Self-regulation
- Social-emotional learning
- Executive functioning
- Perspective taking
- Social problem solving
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Getting Started for Ages 4-7
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Getting Started for Ages 11-13
Getting Started for Ages 14-18
Getting Started for Young Adult - Adult
Developmental Resources to Foster Social Emotional Learning Across all Ages
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Social Thinking provides a deeper way to teach social emotional learning (SEL) and connects the dots between developing students’ social competencies to academic achievement and relationship building across developmental ages.
Our products, free webinars and articles, and online training equip educators, clinicians, parents, and caregivers with strategies to unpack how we learn social competencies, helping make the implicit social emotional knowledge and strategies (that students are expected to learn intuitively) explicit through use of practical concepts and strategies.
What People Are Saying About Social Thinking
Parents & Families
Thank you doesn’t seem enough for all that your teachings have done for me and my family! They have been a lifeline for me to re-connect with my 9-year-old. Everything you publish is 100% applicable. Keep up the amazing work!
Parent of 9 year oldElementary School
Social Thinking has completely changed the environment of who we are as a whole. Thank you for providing us with such rich social and emotional resources. The impact that your resources make are life changing and early intervention is key. Your curriculum is truly amazing! I bought into Social Thinking about 9 years ago and will use this as long as I am in education.
Natalie, Resource TeacherSchools
I appreciate how the Social Thinking Methodology links social intent/thinking and the common core or school based standards. This connection, and the understanding that exists, is so crucial to every member of a student's school community.
Peggy, 3rd Grade TeacherMental Health & Clinicians
The Social Thinking Methodology is the philosophy that I ascribe to professionally. It serves as my guide through assessment and intervention.
Greg, School PsychologistSpeech Language Pathologists
I love how realistic the approach is, and doable! Based on real clinical experience adaptable to individual needs/strengths. Great that all the vocabulary is simple, easy to understand, and not full of professional shop talk.
Amy, SLPParents & Families
Social Thinking’s program has given me the much needed tools to communicate in a meaningful way with my 9-year-old son. Thank you. The stress level in our house has decreased along with the meltdowns. He is able to come out of the meltdowns much more readily.
Tammy, Mom of 9 year-old boyAdult Clients
I am a professional, high-functioning 37 year old woman diagnosed as being on the spectrum two years ago. The Social Thinking Methodology is by far the most helpful resource I have encountered. It would not be an exaggeration to say that it changed my life. Your concrete examples are extremely helpful.
Autistic Adult