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Social Self-Regulation Concepts, Tools & Strategies for Teaching Your Students

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What’s it Mean to “Behave”?
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Teaching Concepts for Social Self-Regulation

Social self-regulation is so much more than simply regulating what we do or say. Social self-regulation involves thinking about thinking (metacognition) and starts with an awareness of our own thoughts, emotions, anxieties, and the role they play in how we interpret others’ words and actions and, in turn, how ours are perceived and interpreted by others. Social self-regulation gives us the tools to work, play, learn, and communicate in groups—and is vital to achieving our personal and group goals. But for many individuals (Neurodivergent and neurotypical children/students/clients) with social thinking needs, it’s not that simple. Social self-regulation requires social awareness, social interpretation, and social problem solving to decide how to respond (or not) across a range of diverse settings and situations. It’s an internally driven journey—very different from external mandates or reward-driven programs that prescribe how to behave in a specific time and place.

 

The Social Thinking Methodology has several tools to support teaching social self-regulation. Explore below our broad range of products, online courses, and free resources for teaching practical strategies to guide and support social self-regulation.

 

 

The Social Thinking Methodology provides evidence-based strategies to help people of all ages develop their social competencies, flexible thinking & social problem solving and improve: conversation & social connection, executive functioning, friendship & relationship development, perspective taking, self-regulation, and Social Thinking vocabulary.

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You Are a Social Detective! Explaining Social Thinking to Kids, 2nd Edition (Storybook)
You Are a Social Detective! Explaining Social Thinking to Kids, 2nd Edition (Storybook) Ages: 5-10+ A multiple award winner! The social world is a big, complicated place that requires us to constantly figure out hidden rules in situations to help us make sense of how we are all interpreting and responding to each other’s actions and reactions. Expanded and revised, this award-winning 2nd edition storybook 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. Learn more
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You Are a Social Detective! Teaching Curriculum & Support Guide
You Are a Social Detective! Teaching Curriculum & Support Guide Ages: Adult You Are a Social Detective! Teaching Curriculum and Support Guide is just the tool you need to bring this important social emotional learning (SEL) into the classroom. Help your students become Social Detectives with this easy-to-use curriculum that fits into your current teaching day. 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. Learn more
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You Are a Social Detective!: Curriculum Guide + Storybook (2-book teaching set)
You Are a Social Detective!: Curriculum Guide + Storybook (2-book teaching set) Ages: 5-10+, Adult Bring social, emotional, and academic learning for children ages 5-10+ into your classroom—and save 10%! This bundle includes the award-winning storybook, You Are a Social Detective! 2nd Edition 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 to support building students’ social attention, social interpretation, and self-awareness—the foundation for social emotional learning for everyone. Learn more
$59.99 $65.98
Social Thinking and Me (two-book set)
Social Thinking and Me (two-book set) Ages: 9-12 Our best-selling curriculum for children ages 9-12, The Kids’ Guidebook introduces select Social Thinking Vocabulary through colorful illustrations and easy-to-understand content. This award-winning two-book set provides the teaching tools to break down complex social concepts to make it easier for interventionists to teach and for students to learn. Thinksheets for Social Emotional Learning includes multiple mini-lessons for in-depth exploration of each chapter of The Kids’ Guidebook to help build social learners’ metacognitive awareness and develop practical strategies. Kids enjoy becoming stronger social observers and problem solvers. A natural fit for school, clinic, and home. Learn more
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Social Emotional Learning Curriculum Get Started Bundle | Social Detective & Superflex Series
Social Emotional Learning Curriculum Get Started Bundle | Social Detective & Superflex Series Ages: 5-10+ Introduce the Social Detective & Superflex series with these cornerstone products that teach children the basics of self-regulation while making social emotional learning fun! Begin with You Are a Social Detective! 2nd Edition storybook and the all-new You Are a Social Detective Teaching Curriculum & Support Guide, which encourage kids to observe the social world and introduce our core Social Thinking Vocabulary to help them learn more about social norms, perspective taking, and how our actions impact others. Move on to the Superflex Curriculum Package and get to know Superflex, our own personal self-regulation superhero, and the 14 original Unthinkables®. Also included are our Superflex Super Sticker Collection, Superflex Bingo, plus Superflex: My Hero Inside music CD! Learn more
$184.99 $204.94
Social Emotional Learning Curriculum All-in-One Bundle | Social Detective & Superflex Series
Social Emotional Learning Curriculum All-in-One Bundle | Social Detective & Superflex Series Ages: 5-10+ Jump into the world of Superflex® where students learn to become their own superheroes! Get the entire collection of Superflex products, featuring our powerpack of thirteen Superflex curriculum books, Superflex Bingo, Superflex Super Sticker Collection, the Thinkables & UnthinkaBots Double Deck, and Superflex: My Hero Inside music CD. Superflex lessons make learning about self-awareness, perspective taking and self-regulation fun. The concept of a social superhero and imaginary characters (Unthinkables/UnthinkaBots/Thinkables) were inspired by ideas from, and developed alongside, Neurodivergent students. The entire Superflex series is designed to empower all students (both neurotypicals and Neurodivergents) to boost their own inner “Superflex powers.” A good choice for both schools and clinics. Learn more
$370.99 $411.87
Social Fortune or Social Fate: A Social Thinking Manga-Style Map for Social Quest Seekers
Social Fortune or Social Fate: A Social Thinking Manga-Style Map for Social Quest Seekers Ages: 10+ Award winning and kid friendly, this graphic novel-style book uses comic strip scenarios to teach about common social and emotional chain reactions. Co-developed, critiqued, and inspired by Neurodivergent tweens and teens, this book represents the 10 social scenarios they most often encountered.  Readers will get to see the choices of three characters and the outcome of those choices (social fortune or social fate). Designed to show “both sides of the [choices] coin,” the book allows students to read the book forward or backwards. Readers also get to see how protagonists’ choices are tied to their own thoughts, their actions or reactions, which ultimately impact how they feel.  Each scenario includes either an analysis and strategy codes to decipher the characters’ choices or an “autopsy” for a better understanding of what happened and why. Learn more
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Socially Curious and Curiously Social: A Social Thinking Guidebook for Bright Teens and Young Adults
Socially Curious and Curiously Social: A Social Thinking Guidebook for Bright Teens and Young Adults Ages: 14-22 New edition! All-new language, content, and book cover design featuring artwork by a Neurodivergent artist! Teen and young adult readers give rave reviews of this award-winning “get real” guidebook with anime illustrations that helps social learners sail the stormy seas of dating, texting, lies, and everyday relationships. Targeted social emotional strategies encourage readers to better navigate their social worlds, develop stronger social competencies, and manage social anxiety. Interventionists (parents, caregivers, and professionals) appreciate how it better equips them to explain the Social Thinking® process, helping young adults learn to use metacognitive strategies to navigate to self-regulate within social situations. Use the free Socially Curious Thinking and Reading Guide with the book to enrich the social learning and conversation. Learn more
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Social Thinking Frameworks Collection | 26 Teaching Frameworks (Sets 1 & 2 Bundle)
Social Thinking Frameworks Collection | 26 Teaching Frameworks (Sets 1 & 2 Bundle) Ages: 4 - adult We’ve got 26 powerful visual tools to help you and your social learners crack open the social emotional world—all in one collection. We’ve distilled 25 years of our core learning and teaching into hands-on, ready-to-use , 8.5” x 11” scaffolds to help both interventionists and social learners organize, talk about, understand, and navigate diverse social landscapes. Learn more
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Thinking About YOU Thinking About ME, 2nd Edition
Thinking About YOU Thinking About ME, 2nd Edition Ages: 4+ Our informative and accessible bestseller is ground zero for understanding and applying core components of the Social Thinking Methodology. It explores the social learning process and weaves together research with ways to teach specific social competencies. Introduces core treatment frameworks and related strategies and presents the Social Thinking Dynamic Assessment Protocol. Foundational reading for professionals and family members. Learn more
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Social Thinking at Work: Strategies for Understanding and Navigating the Workplace
Social Thinking at Work: Strategies for Understanding and Navigating the Workplace Ages: 18+ This award-winning book unpacks the power of our social cognition. It’s written for both neurotypical and Neurodivergent adult readers to better understand the powerful ways in which we “read” not only what people mean by what they say, but also how others perceive how we emotionally relate. The title reflects a problem experienced by so many clients who report their “good intentions” were met with disappointing outcomes as they worked toward their social goals. This book is also a good primer for neurotypical employers/employees or HR departments to read about the experiences and perspectives of Neurodivergent coworkers and perhaps develop empathy for the complexity of the bi-directional social learning process. Provides practical strategies for how to effectively work in a group, understand the hidden rules of the social world—including workplace etiquette and politics—and build relationships. Learn more
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The Zones of Regulation

The Zones of Regulation: A Curriculum Designed to Foster Self-Regulation and Emotional Control
The Zones of Regulation: A Curriculum Designed to Foster Self-Regulation and Emotional Control Ages: 4+ New updated emotions illustrations! This popular, easy-to-use framework and award-winning curriculum teaches strategies for managing emotions and sensory needs to individuals ages 4+. Rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy, the framework uses four colors to help individuals identify how they are feeling in the moment given their energy, emotions, and level of alertness, creating a colored system to guide them to metacognitive strategies and tools to support regulation. Help students learn how to understand and regulate their emotions, manage their sensory needs, and become more self-aware and skillful problem solvers. Learn more
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The Road to Regulation & The Regulation Station: Understanding and Managing Feelings & Emotions | 2-Storybook Set: The Zones of Regulation Series
The Road to Regulation & The Regulation Station: Understanding and Managing Feelings & Emotions | 2-Storybook Set: The Zones of Regulation Series Ages: 5-11 A multiple award winner! Two award-winning storybooks engage children ages 5-11 in learning The Zones of Regulation framework and curriculum. The first, The Road to Regulation, describes and explains four different emotional zones and how we feel in each of them. Through an imaginary adventure to “The Regulation Station,” the second storybook introduces the use of “tools” (strategies) to help students identify ways they can manage their different feelings at school and home. Learn more
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Tools to Try Cards for Kids: Regulation Strategies to Focus, Calm, Think, Move, Breathe, and Connect | The Zones of Regulation Series
Tools to Try Cards for Kids: Regulation Strategies to Focus, Calm, Think, Move, Breathe, and Connect | The Zones of Regulation Series Ages: 5-10 A choice rich, portable strategy card deck to help kids ages 5-10 metacognitively explore and practice over 50 regulation tools at home, in school, or in therapeutic and community settings. The award-winning 4" x 6" two-sided strategy cards are divided into 5 categories that describe strategies to focus, calm, think, move, breathe, and connect developed from lessons in the popular The Zones of Regulation book. Learn more
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Tools to Try Cards for Tweens & Teens: Regulation Strategies to Focus, Calm, Think, Move, Breathe, and Connect | The Zones of Regulation Series
Tools to Try Cards for Tweens & Teens: Regulation Strategies to Focus, Calm, Think, Move, Breathe, and Connect | The Zones of Regulation Series Ages: 11+ The award-winning Tools to Try Cards for Tweens & Teens is a multisensory strategy card deck that helps students explore, choose, and practice 50 regulation tools at home, in school, or in therapeutic and community settings. The 2-sided cards are divided into 5 categories that describe strategies to focus, calm, think, move, breathe, and connect. This hands-on metacognitive supplement to The Zones of Regulation curriculum pairs well with Navigating The Zones game and its supplemental Advanced Pack for additional levels of play. Learn more
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The Zones of Regulation (dry-erase poster)
The Zones of Regulation (dry-erase poster) Ages: 4+ New emotions illustrations with greater diversity! This durable, color-coded, 24” x 18” poster highlights four core zones of emotion-behavior regulation taught in the curriculum The Zones of Regulation. A helpful visual tool for use in the clinic, classroom, or home, this cognitive behavior approach is designed to help students recognize when they are in different states called “zones.” Students learn how to use metacognitive strategies to stay in a zone or move from one to another. This interactive visual invites kids to name and discuss the tools they can use. Also sold in The Zones of Regulation 4-Poster Set. Learn more
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The Road to Regulation Poster | The Zones of Regulation Series
The Road to Regulation Poster | The Zones of Regulation Series Ages: 5-11 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. Use it at home, school, or clinic to review information with children while reading the 2-Storybook Set and to support lessons from The Zones of Regulation curriculum. Learn more
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Zones STOP, OPT and GO (dry-erase poster)
Zones STOP, OPT and GO (dry-erase poster) Ages: 8+ This durable, dry-erase poster is a companion product to The Zones of Regulation curriculum by Leah Kuypers, and aligns with Lesson 17 in the book. This in-the-moment teaching tool is designed to help kids who struggle with impulse control and figuring out alternative solutions to conflicts. STOP, OPT and GO gives students an easy-to-remember metacognitive phrase and visual to help them before they act on an impulse. Perfect for the clinic, classroom, or home, this poster (18” x 24”) is also sold in The Zones of Regulation 4-poster Set. Learn more
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Zones Triggers (dry-erase poster)
Zones Triggers (dry-erase poster) Ages: 8+ Perfect for clinic, classroom, or home use, this 18” x 24” durable, dry-erase poster is a companion product to the The Zones of Regulation curriculum by Leah Kuypers, and aligns with Lesson 9 "Caution! Triggers Ahead.” This visual tool helps students identify the situations—or triggers—that push them into the Yellow or Red Zones and prepare themselves for something nonroutine. Kids write their triggers on the caution sign to remind themselves to use their metacognitive problem-solving strategies to regulate in those situations. This poster is also sold in The Zones of Regulation 4-Poster Set. Learn more
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Get Started with Ages 5-11 Bundle | The Zones of Regulation Series
Get Started with Ages 5-11 Bundle | The Zones of Regulation Series Ages: 5-11 Ready to start teaching The Zones of Regulation to children at developmental ages 5-11? This award-winning bundle includes 4 easy-to-use products to get started: The Zones of Regulation curriculum, two storybooks that bring curriculum lessons to life, and a multisensory regulation strategy card deck, which includes over 50 direct instruction tool cards. Use all products together to maximize social learning at home and school. Learn more
$121.99 $134.97
Get Started for Tweens & Teens Bundle | The Zones of Regulation Series
Get Started for Tweens & Teens Bundle | The Zones of Regulation Series Ages: 11 - 18 This powerhouse bundle includes the award-winning bestseller, The Zones of Regulation curriculum, the Navigating The Zones board game and its extended play Advanced Pack, and our award-winning Tools to Try Cards for Tweens & Teens. Discover visual supports, strategies, and activities to enrich teaching of core curriculum ideas. Together these products help foster students’ learning and practice of regulation strategies for the social emotional scenarios within the game and their everyday lives. Learn more
$161.99 $179.96
All-in-One Across Age Groups Bundle | The Zones of Regulation Series
All-in-One Across Age Groups Bundle | The Zones of Regulation Series Ages: 5 - 18 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. It includes the award-winning core curriculum The Zones of Regulation, the award-winning 2-Storybook Set, two award-winning Tools to Try card decks for different age groups, the Navigating The Zones game, and its supplemental Advanced Pack. Save 10% with this bundle and have the flexibility and developmental tools to engage youngsters, tweens, and teens. Learn more
$229.99 $254.94
Tools to Try Card Decks Across the Ages | The Zones of Regulation Series
Tools to Try Card Decks Across the Ages | The Zones of Regulation Series Ages: 5-18 Expand your teaching using the best-selling The Zones of Regulation curriculum for students ages 5-18 with these two award-winning Tools to Try strategy card decks. These two decks provide a combined choice of 79 different multisensory tools for students to learn and practice as they develop regulation and emotional strategies in all settings. Learn more
$44.99 $49.98
Zones Storybook Set + Zones Tools to Try Cards for Kids Bundle
Zones Storybook Set + Zones Tools to Try Cards for Kids Bundle Ages: 5-10 Teaching award-winning The Zones of Regulation curriculum to children ages 5-11? This bundle provides two ways to supplement and extend curriculum lessons with fidelity. The set contains two storybooks with characters, social scenarios, and metacognitive strategies that bring regulation lessons to life. Award-winning Tools to Try Cards for Kids is a strategy card deck that introduces children to over 50 multisensory regulation tools demonstrated characters from the second storybook. Learn more
$67.99 $74.98
The Zones of Regulation 4-Poster Set
The Zones of Regulation 4-Poster Set Ages: 8+ Whether you are just getting started with The Zones of Regulation curriculum or need more visual supports for teaching The Zones framework, these four posters help you get the most out of those invaluable teaching moments that are part of everyday life. Set includes: The updated The Zones of Regulation dry-erase poster (24” x 18”), The Zones STOP, OPT and GO dry-erase poster (18” x 24”), The Zones Triggers dry-erase poster (18” x 24”), and The Road to Regulation poster (24” x 18”). Individual posters are also sold separately. Learn more
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Navigating The Zones
Navigating The Zones Ages: 8+ This unique and fun cooperative game expands the teachings of The Zones of Regulation curriculum. It introduces the concept of “The Zones Pathway” via a board game that encourages interaction by using a variety of card decks to explore social situations, emotions, and related regulation tools. This flexible teaching tool is non-competitive by design. Social learners collaborate as they practice problem solving how to navigate different social situations, a process required for emotional regulation. Note: Both interventionists and social learners should already be familiar with The Zones of Regulation concepts and vocabulary before playing this game. It is not designed to be a stand-alone social emotional teaching tool. Learn more
$64.99
Advanced Pack: Cards to Extend Play with Navigating The Zones
Advanced Pack: Cards to Extend Play with Navigating The Zones Ages: 10+ If you’ve been using the game Navigating The Zones, add this companion Advanced Pack to help more sophisticated social learners (age 10+) further practice and develop their social emotional problem solving and regulation skills by introducing three additional levels of play, each advancing in complexity. The Advanced Pack provides 400 more complex and nuanced Situation and Feeling Cards to foster imagination, perspective taking, and social problem solving. It introduces Wild Cards and Trade-A-Cards to encourage more flexible, strategic thinking as players move from cooperative to competitive game play. IMPORTANT! This product requires the use of Navigating The Zones, sold separately. Learn more
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Navigating The Zones & Advanced Pack Game Bundle
Navigating The Zones & Advanced Pack Game Bundle Ages: 10 to young adult Using The Zones of Regulation curriculum? Try this game and its Advanced Pack to help tweens (10+), teens, and young adults develop social emotional awareness, regulation, and problem solving skills. Plus—save $10 when you purchase the bundle. Navigating The Zones is a cooperative game that expands The Zones of Regulation curriculum. It introduces the concept of “The Zones Pathway” via an interactive board and a variety of card decks to explore social situations, emotions, and related regulation tools. The Advanced Pack offers 495 additional cards to enable older, more sophisticated social learners to continue building their regulation skills through increasingly complex competitive play. Learn more
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Highly Engaging Games to Motivate Discussion & Problem Solving

Should I? or Shouldn't I? Revised Elementary Edition
Should I? or Shouldn't I? Revised Elementary Edition Ages: 8-11 Motivate students ages 8-11 to explore social expectations and consider how they perceive, interpret, and emotionally respond to others’ actions and reactions. Use the cards to explore and discuss group expectations across a wide variety of social situations. Teachers, clinicians, and parents can gain information about which social concepts might need deeper teaching. This game leads to greater self-awareness and builds upon social competencies when players talk to each other about their shared social expectations! It also makes thinking and talking about social situations fun and allows kids to explore their own thoughts, perspectives, and behavior choices within a safe and consequences-free environment. Learn more
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Should I? or Shouldn't I? Elementary School Edition Expansion Pack
Should I? or Shouldn't I? Elementary School Edition Expansion Pack Ages: 8-11 Triple your students’ fun and social emotional learning with this expansion pack featuring 200 new prompt cards and 100 new challenge cards that extend play with fresh, age-specific situations and topics. This product is an add-on to the original game Should I or Shouldn’t I? What Would Others Think?™ Elementary Edition for kids ages 8-11. (Game sold separately.) Students love playing this game so much they requested more cards—and we listened! Learn more

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Should I? or Shouldn't I? Elementary Game + Expansion Pack Bundle
Should I? or Shouldn't I? Elementary Game + Expansion Pack Bundle Ages: 8-11 Make thinking, talking, and learning about the social world fun! Save 10% with this bundle that includes the original game and its 300-card expansion pack. Should I? or Shouldn't I? Revised Elementary School Edition is designed to give children a fun and motivating way to discuss age-relevant issues and their own thoughts, perspectives & choices in a nonjudgmental and safe setting. Players explore how their social interpretations might impact their own actions and reactions, using social situations that elementary-aged students may encounter daily. The Expansion Pack provides 300 additional prompt and challenge cards to keep the play stimulating and prompt deep discussion and learning on perspective taking, self-awareness, and executive functioning. Learn more

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Should I? or Shouldn’t I? What Would Others Think? Revised Edition for Teens
Should I? or Shouldn’t I? What Would Others Think? Revised Edition for Teens Ages: 12-18+ Revised and updated, this popular social learning card game provides the all-new Social Interpretation Scale to motivate teens to explore how they perceive, interpret, and emotionally respond to others’ actions and reactions and discuss group expectations across a wide variety of social situations. The new Teaching Guide and Instructions help interventionists shift students’ focus from discussing how someone behaved to instead learning about the power of one’s own social interpretation within a fun, safe, and consequence-free setting. This revised edition extends teaching the concept of the Social Emotional Chain Reaction (SECR), a Social Thinking® Methodology framework. Learn more
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Should I? or Shouldn't I? Teen Edition Expansion Pack
Should I? or Shouldn't I? Teen Edition Expansion Pack Ages: 12-18 Double your teens’ fun and social learning with this expansion pack featuring 200 new prompt cards and 100 new challenge cards that extend play with fresh, age-specific social situations and topics—and are useful for play with savvy social learners who have memorized responses to the original cards in the game! This product is an add-on to the original game Should I? or Shouldn’t I? What Would Others Think? Revised Edition for Teens for players ages 12—18. (Game sold separately.) Social learners love playing this game so much they requested more cards—and we listened! Learn more
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Should I? or Shouldn’t I? Teen Game + Expansion Pack Bundle
Should I? or Shouldn’t I? Teen Game + Expansion Pack Bundle Ages: 12-18+ Save 10% with this bundle of the popular, fun social learning game Should I? or Shouldn’t I? What Would Others Think? Revised Edition for Teens and its add-on Expansion Pack of 300 additional cards. Revised and updated with the all-new Social Interpretation Scale, this game stimulates authentic peer-based discussions on a wide range of teen-friendly and relevant social situations that engage them in thinking and talking about social problem solving for responsible decision making. Shift students’ focus from discussing how someone behaved to instead learning about the power of their own social interpretation within a fun, safe, and consequence-free setting. Learn more
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The Power of Thought on Feelings
The Power of Thought on Feelings Ages: 7-10 This wonderfully illustrated children's book not only introduces young readers to the concept of thought but also to the amazing power of their own thoughts and feelings. Through a rhyming poem, the authors communicate a simple yet profound message: our thoughts create our feelings and behavior, and when our minds are calm, we have access to mindful, healthy feelings and responses. A perfect read-aloud for parents and an important book for all early primary school teachers to share in their mainstream classes. Use this book as a powerful metacognitive teaching tool. Download the 10 Lesson Plans and Activities. Learn more
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The Whole-Brain Child
The Whole-Brain Child Ages: 8+ This book explores the role different parts of our brains play in managing our own behavior. The authors, a neuropsychiatrist and a parenting expert, illustrate how teaching children about their brains can help them learn to cultivate healthy emotional and intellectual development, in addition to self-management, in order to foster balanced lives that include healthy relationships, success in school, responsible behavior, and positive self-regard. Written for use with children, in language and images they can understand, this book explains and visually depicts simplified neurology paired with 12 concrete metacognitive strategies to help children learn how to better control their actions and reactions. Learn more
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The Whole-Brain Child Workbook
The Whole-Brain Child Workbook Ages: 8+ Based on their best-selling book, The Whole-Brain Child, internationally acclaimed neuropsychiatrist Dan Siegel and brain-based parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson have created a companion workbook to apply the metacognitively based whole-brain principles. The workbook presents a unique, interactive approach that allows readers to not only think more deeply about how the ideas fit their own parenting (and or teaching) approach, but also develop specific, practical ways to implement the concepts with children. Provides dozens of practical, age-specific exercises and activities to help children learn to better manage their own minds. Learn more
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Hey Awesome: A Book for Kids About Anxiety, Courage, and Already Being Awesome
Hey Awesome: A Book for Kids About Anxiety, Courage, and Already Being Awesome Ages: 5-12+

Hey Awesome explains how the same brain that can make a child feel anxious sometimes, also comes with amazing strengths. This book 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.

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Hey Warrior: A Book for Kids About Anxiety
Hey Warrior: A Book for Kids About Anxiety Ages: 5-12+

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! Wonderful illustrations and keen insights gently teach children how to be the boss of their brains and let their warriors know when to stand down and relax through positive thinking and breathing exercises. By understanding the physical science of anxiety and why their brains produce it, children can then learn to master it as a positive, friendly superpower.

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Michelle Garcia Winner explains how self-regulation is a process of using one’s social competencies to socially attend, interpret people in context, problem solve how to respond, monitor how our words or actions are being perceived, and then adjust as needed to meet our own personal social goal(s).

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What’s It Mean to “Behave”?

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What’s It Mean to “Behave”?

Tips, Tools & Strategies for Teaching Students Self-Regulation

When what a student says or does (actions or reactions) is out of sync with what the group is doing, they’re often labeled as a “behavior problem.” We’ll rethink “behavior problems” by teaching lessons that promote development of social competencies, including the power of hidden expectations, as well as other self-regulation strategies for use in the classroom, playground, and home.
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Part 1: Me in the Social World—It All Starts with Social Self-Awareness

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Part 1: Me in the Social World—It All Starts with Social Self-Awareness

Series Name: Social Detective, Superflex®, and Friends Take On Social Emotional Learning: Teaching the Concepts with Fidelity

In this first part of a two-part series, learn how to teach with fidelity the award-winning You are a Social Detective! and Superflex…A Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum to boost social awareness and self-regulation. We explain the critical scope and sequencing required to teach these materials. Learn how to modify this curriculum for use with older social learners.
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Part 2: Using Social Competencies to Navigate in the Social World
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Part 2: Using Social Competencies to Navigate in the Social World

Series Name: Social Detective, Superflex®, and Friends Take On Social Emotional Learning: Teaching the Concepts with Fidelity

In this second part of a two-part series, you will learn how to teach with fidelity the award-winning You are a Social Detective! and Superflex…A Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum to boost social awareness and self-regulation. We continue to explore many different social thinking strategies for navigating in the social world. Learn how to teach Superflex in the mainstream classroom, in-person, or online. Discover the dos and don’ts when using Social Thinking® teaching materials.

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Part 1: How Can We Help Teens When They Want Us to Go Away?

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Part 1: How Can We Help Teens When They Want Us to Go Away?

Series Name: Exploring the Unique Needs of Teens Who Are Developing Social Self-Awareness

In this first part of a two-part series, we discuss teens’ expectations for working on social emotional self-regulation skills. We explore how to help students deemed “oppositional or resistant” to active participation in sessions. We also review how education and employment laws in the USA change when children turn 18 years old.
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Part 2: Choosing Social Strategies to Take Charge of One’s Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions
Tweens & Teens

Part 2: Choosing Social Strategies to Take Charge of One’s Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions

Series Name: Exploring the Unique Needs of Teens Who Are Developing Social Self-Awareness

In this second part of a two-part series, we examine the role of executive functions, social emotional learning, and use of metacognitive strategies when helping students learn how to meet their own goals. Concepts related to social conformity, boredom management, and fostering autonomy and motivation by developing one’s own self-management and public relations campaigns are explored.
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Strategies to Build 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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