Free Video Lessons to Use at Home & School
Teaching Social Thinking at Home With Our Experts
For over 20 years Social Thinking has been a guiding resource for schools, clinics, and families around the world, and we’re here for you, too! The practical nature of our teaching and the concrete way we explain social concepts helps engage people in social learning not only about themselves but about others. Whether you're teaching individuals with ADHD, autism spectrum (levels 1 or 2), social communication disorders, or an entire mainstream class-our strategies can help you help them.
We are clinicians who create quality educational products and services that break down the social emotional learning process to help you teach it. Our methodology fosters social competencies so foundational that our work applies across cultures, ages, races, religions, mental health diagnoses, etc. and is taught in communities around the world. We stand committed to providing quality, practical information that is rooted in research, built upon real-world experiences, and is responsive to the needs of the people who use our methodology. We are constantly learning and gaining inspiration from our clients and others we meet, so our work is ever-evolving yet remains grounded in its adherence to rigorous standards of quality.
In the free videos below our experts share some ideas for using Social Thinking at home. We hope you find these resources helpful—we are honored to be a resource for you.
- Books, Games & Posters
- Online Training
- Free Webinars
- Article Library
- Digital Products
Books, Games & Posters
Teachers, speech-language pathologists, clinicians, behavior specialists, and parents are using our expansive collection of curricula, books, games, and posters to teach social competencies to social learners ages 4 and up.
While our deeper work is for individuals with social learning challenges (ADHD, twice exceptional, social communication disorders, autism spectrum levels 1 and 2, etc. or no diagnosis,) our work is also being adopted into mainstream classrooms and workplaces around the world to improve social emotional learning for all.
Online Training
Social Thinking has helped more than 1 million educators, clinicians, and families teach social learners essential life skills including social-emotional learning and self-regulation. Wherever you are in your professional career or level of understanding as a caregiver, we can help.
Browse our entire collection of Online Training options, taught by our experienced practitioners and clinicians.
Free Webinars
Explore how to teach a variety of core Social Thinking concepts—for free. Browse our entire webinar collection and discover strategies to help people of all ages develop social competencies, self-regulation, social skills, social-emotional understanding, flexible thinking, and more!
Our webinars are not pre-approved for credit by continuing education organizations. However, all participants can download and print a Certificate of Completion.
Article Library
Social Thinking is proud to provide an extensive collection of free articles devoted to helping individuals build stronger social awareness and social functioning using the Social Thinking Methodology.
Browse our library of 100+ free articles and learn strategies you can start using right away. We’re constantly adding material based on the latest research and our evolving client work—so visit our library often and stay informed!
Digital Books
eBooks make it easy for children to explore social-emotional strategies to become stronger social problem solvers.
Build social awareness and vocabulary with Social Thinking and Me—a powerhouse of social knowledge to help children in upper elementary and middle school become stronger social problem solvers.
Teach social awareness and self-regulation with Superflex. Kids around the world are having fun learning strategies and practicing new skills to boost their “Superflex powers."
New & Best Selling
You Are a Social Detective!: Curriculum Guide + Storybook (2-book teaching set)
Bring social emotional learning for children ages 5-10+ into your classroom! This bundle includes the award-winning storybook, You Are a Social Detective! and its new companion Teaching Curriculum & Support Guide, an easy-to-use curriculum that fits into your current teaching day. The storybook introduces students to core social emotional learning (SEL) concepts, and the curriculum provides 10 fun, structured lesson plans and visual tools.
You Are a Social Detective! Teaching Curriculum & Support Guide
Help your students become Social Detectives with this easy-to-use curriculum that fits into your current teaching day. Designed as a companion guide to teach the concepts explored in You Are a Social Detective! more deeply, 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.
You Are a Social Detective! Explaining Social Thinking to Kids, 2nd Edition
Boost kids’ observation and clue interpretation skills in social situations. Expanded and revised, this award-winning 2nd edition provides an all-new structured approach to observation, illustrations that reflect a broader range of inclusion and diversity in characters, and lessons for deeper learning.
Slaying Digital Dragons
With respect, empathy, and wacky humor, Slaying Digital Dragons empowers teens to explore their screen scene; join the resistance against Big Tech’s manipulations and addictive algorithms; protect their body, brain, psyche, reputation, and relationships from the Digital Dark Side; and conduct a self-intervention (called an “App-endectomy”) to reset and optimize their digital lives.
2-Storybook Set | The Zones of Regulation Series
These two award-winning storybooks provide engaging social scenarios and strategies to help children at developmental ages 5-11 explore how lessons from The Zones of Regulation curriculum book can be used at school and at home. Kids learn along with the characters that they can manage how they feel by using tools to meet their goals.
All-in-One Across Age Groups Bundle | The Zones of Regulation Series
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. Save 10% with this bundle and have the flexibility and developmental tools to engage youngsters, tweens, and teens.
Hey Awesome: A Book for Kids About Anxiety, Courage, and Already Being Awesome
‘Hey Awesome’ explains how the same brain that can make children feel anxious sometimes, also comes with amazing strengths. It also includes powerful tips for children on how they can manage their anxiety. First, we let them know how awesome they are, then we give them what they need to feel it for themselves.
Hey Warrior: A Book for Kids About Anxiety
Empower children to manage their anxiety by learning that it comes from a place of protective strength within their brains—the amygdala—a tiny but fierce personal “warrior” that prepares us to fight or flee danger, even when we don’t need or want its protection!
Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain
The achievement gap remains a stubborn problem for educators of culturally and linguistically diverse students. With the introduction of the rigorous Common Core State Standards, diverse classrooms need a proven framework for optimizing student engagement and facilitating deeper learning.
Tenacity in Children: Nurturing the Seven Instincts for Lifetime Success
Tenacity in Children provides a solid foundation to prepare children for a resilient and happy future. It offers well-defined guideposts for adults committed to providing every child with the opportunity to access, strengthen, and employ instincts as they negotiate childhood and passage into adult life.
The Road to Regulation Poster | The Zones of Regulation Series
Adapted from the colorful layout in The Regulation Station storybook, this 24” x 18” poster is a flexible, real-time reminder of the four steps needed to (1) recognize your feelings, (2) identify your Zone, (3) choose a tool, and (4) use the tool to help regulate your feelings experienced across different situations.
Get Started with Ages 5-11 Bundle | The Zones of Regulation Series
Ready to start teaching The Zones of Regulation to children at developmental ages 5-11? This bundle includes The Zones of Regulation curriculum, two brand new storybooks, and a multisensory regulation strategy card deck, which includes over 50 direct instruction tool cards.
Get Started for Tweens & Teens Bundle | The Zones of Regulation Series
Want to learn about The Zones of Regulation and work with tweens & teens? Start with this powerhouse bundle that includes the best-selling The Zones of Regulation curriculum, the Navigating The Zones board game and its extended play Advanced Pack, and our Tools to Try Cards for Tweens & Teens.
The Zones of Regulation: Tools to Try for Kids | Regulation Strategies to Focus, Calm, Think, Move, Breathe, and Connect
A choice rich, portable, strategy card deck to help kids ages 5-10 metacognitively explore and practice over 50 self-regulation tools at home, in school, or in therapeutic and community settings.
Tools to Try Cards for Tweens & Teens: Regulation Strategies to Focus, Calm, Think, Move, Breathe, and Connect | The Zones of Regulation Series
A choice rich, portable, strategy card deck to help adolescents ages 11+ metacognitively explore and practice over 50 self-regulation tools at home, in school, or in therapeutic and community settings.
Social Thinking Frameworks Collection | A Set of 26 Social Thinking® Teaching Frameworks
The social world is vast and complex, kids are complicated, and there’s so much information! Here’s where you’ll find the best of the Social Thinking® Methodology distilled into a two-set collection of our 26 core teaching frameworks for helping social learners unpack and figure out how to navigate the social world in a concrete, visual way.
The Zones of Regulation
A Curriculum Designed to Foster Self-Regulation and Emotional Control
We Thinkers! (Ages 4-7)
Our premier social emotional learning series for helping social learners ages 4–7 develop foundational social competencies.
Superflex (Ages 7-10+)
Dive into the foundational products in our Superflex series to teach children the fundamentals of self-regulation and give them a world of characters to make social learning fun.
Tweens & Teens
Help tweens and teens navigate their social worlds, develop strong social competencies, deal with flirting and dating, and manage social anxiety.
Young Adult & Adult
Learn strategies to foster social competencies, relationship development, and independent living skills while helping individuals experience deeper well-being.
Practical Strategies Taught by Thought Leaders
What’s Alexithymia? and How Does It Affect Emotional Regulation and Awareness?
Recorded Replay Expires December 31, 2022
Implementing Social Thinking® Schoolwide: Bringing the Concepts into Classrooms & Beyond
Recorded Replay Expires December 31, 2022
Resilience in an Uncertain Time: Supporting Students and Families Now and Later
Recorded Replay Expires December 31, 2022
Defining 7 Aspects of Tenacity & Exploring Strategies for Social Problem Solving
Recorded Replay Expires December 31, 2022
Raising an Organized Child: Strategies to Promote Executive Functions
Recorded Replay Expires December 31, 2022
Creative Strategies for Teaching Social Thinking in Schools, Clinics, Homes and Through Tele-Education
Recorded Replay Expires December 31, 2022
Our Newest Webinars
Perspective Taking in the Classroom PLUS: New K-5 Social Detective Curriculum Launch Party
October 12 | 9:00 AM Pacific
Face-to-face communication is a thing again! Wait, how do we teach that?
How Social Emotional Learning Can Ease the Transition Back to School
Exploring Our Children’s Stress
Tips & Tools for Adapting Teaching to Students’ Needs
Must-Read Articles
Making the Connection Between Dynamic Assessment and Treatment to Develop Social Emotional Competencies
Break Through Students’ Social Anxiety Barrier: A Strategy for Student-Teacher Communication
Social Thinking® in the World of Online Learning with More Literal-Minded Social Learners
Help Avoid Frustration While Working From Home
Moving Forward with Your Family During the Pandemic
