Social Thinking Deeply Connects Social, Emotional & Academic Learning

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One more BOO-tiful way to Teach Social Concepts using a Halloween Theme

Creating imaginary front doors for your favorite Halloween character can be a fun and friendly way to teach social observation, reading clues, people files, and smart guesses. This is a great way to practice social concepts to help interpret what we see. Access this activity and download the accompanying free thinksheet here.

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Social Thinking Meets Seesaw: An Educational Match!
We are excited to announce a free joint webinar where we will highlight the blending of teaching strategies from the Social Thinking Methodology with the innovative educational platform of Seesaw. The free 1-hour event, hosted on Seesaw, will kick off with a brief overview of foundational lessons found in two Social Thinking curriculum series followed by a sneak peek into how the lessons come to life on Seesaw’s interactive platform.

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Superflex Bingo

Superflex® Bingo is a super flexible, fun, and educational game! It enables students to practice identifying Social Thinking concepts and Superflex characters to strengthen their self-regulation and superflexible thinking powers. This fun and educational game contains 12 themed card decks to keep students engaged and learning throughout the year. The Halloween theme consists of 24 situation cards to help students navigate this holiday.

Social, Emotional & Academic Learning Resources Across All Ages

The Social Thinking Methodology has been a guiding resource for schools, clinics, individuals, and families around the world for more than 25 years. Our work supports individuals' social, emotional & academic learning, whether neurotypical or Neurodivergent, with or without diagnoses. Our materials are helpful for students with solid to strong expressive and receptive language skills in mainstream and special education. They can be used across developmental ages to support the development of social competencies, flexible thinking & social problem solving to improve: conversation & social connectionexecutive functioningfriendship & relationship development, perspective takingself-regulation, and Social Thinking Vocabulary. Help us protect the fidelity of this body of work and be informed about how you can/can’t use our materials considering our intellectual property, copyrights and trademarks.

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Teachers, speech-language pathologists, clinicians, behavior specialists, and parents are using our expansive collection of curricula, books, games, and visual supports to improve social, emotional, and academic learning for all.


We take complicated social, emotional, and academic learning processes and teach them explicitly in a way that social learners of all ages can understand. Our work has helped over 2.5 million educators, clinicians & families around the world.



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Personalized Training for Your School or Clinic

Social Thinking offers a wide array of all day and partial day courses and embedded school trainings to fit your needs. Our speakers collectively instruct over 15 courses offering practical concepts and strategies to boost the social learning process and academic achievement that can be used across settings, such as in the classroom, on the playground, at home, at work, and in the community. Each course covers a specific topic, from working with early learners, to the transition to adulthood; to helping mature adults improve executive functioning skills. Each speaker has unique specialties that align with the courses they instruct.

The Social Thinking Training and Speakers' Collaborative (STTSC) consists of 13 clinicians, including Michelle Garcia Winner and Dr. Pamela Crooke, who train around the world on the Social Thinking Methodology in addition to working closely with schools, clients, and families.

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What is Social Thinking?

3 Distinct Definitions

We have a lot of information to share. Here are three ways to understand how we use the words "social thinking":

  1. The Term

  2. The Business

  3. The Methodology

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Develop 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:


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