Social Thinking Deeply Connects Social, Emotional & Academic Learning
Join Us in Chicago!
2-Day Conference | April 24-25, 2025
Did you know that social concepts are the foundation for most academic standards and are needed by every student across the school day? Join us in the Chicago Metro Area (Glen Ellyn) for two full days of learning practical strategies to embed into your current teaching, as well as new tools to support academic, executive functioning, and social concepts across the school day.
Free Activities
Gratitude Starts with Thinking About Others
It’s that time of year when we are thinking about and talking about gratitude more often. To celebrate with our community, we are giving you 2 free gratitude activities. Here are two simple ideas of how you might incorporate strategies and vocabulary from the Social Thinking® Methodology to build a community of kids who see the positive attributes in one another, understand multiple perspectives, and build empathy.
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Get this practical guide from respected therapist and popular YouTube star Dr. Tracey Marks that will help readers recognize the common signs and symptoms of anxiety and anxiety-related mood disorders, and then help them develop coping skills using self-guided solutions or help them decide on other treatment options. Also available On Demand is a 3-hour course featuring Dr. Marks and Michelle Garcia Winner: From Anxiety to Resilience: Building Emotional and Executive Functioning Toolkits for Kids and Their Support System.
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 connection, executive functioning, friendship & relationship development, perspective taking, self-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.
Email us to learn more about personalized training for your school or clinic.
Michelle Garcia Winner
Founder & CEO Social Thinking • MA, CCC-SLP
Pamela Crooke
PhD, CCC-SLP • Co-developer of the Social Thinking® Methodology • Chief Operations Officer
Kari Zweber Palmer
MA, CCC-SLP
Ryan Hendrix
MS, CCC-SLP
Nancy Clements
MA, CCC-SLP
Nancy Tarshis
MA, MS, CCC-SLP
Renee Attaway-Storer
MS, CCC-SLP
Beckham Linton
MA, CCC-SLP
Ariela Jokel
PhD, CCC-SLP
Chithra Kathiresan
B. App. Sc., SLP
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":
The Term
The Business
The Methodology
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Our Methodology
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Develop Social Competencies
The Social Thinking Methodology provides evidence-based strategies to help people ages four throughout adulthood develop their social competencies, flexible thinking, and 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