Social Thinking Vocabulary Resources
Lay the foundation for social emotional learning with our most popular Social Thinking vocabulary resources
At the heart of the Social Thinking Methodology is our vocabulary. It’s our way of translating complex social concepts into a simpler form that can be taught and used as a common language to talk about what it means to “be social” across people, cultures, and context. Social Thinking Vocabulary encourages individuals to actively notice what’s happening around them. The language can be used whenever and wherever needed to talk about social expectations and interpretations: working as a group during a math lesson, dinnertime at home, hanging out with friends on the playground, participating as members of a team during P.E., etc. The concepts are expressed in simple language to make these abstract ideas easier to understand and motivate individuals to integrate them into their daily experiences as they participate in the social world.
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.
We Thinkers! All-In-One Bundle
We Thinkers! All-In-One Bundle
Ages: 4-7
Now for the first time in one great-value bundle! Multiple award-winning We Thinkers! is our premier social emotional learning series for helping social learners ages 4–7 develop foundational social competencies. These practice-proven, evidence-based materials are designed for both neurotypically developing children and those with social learning differences and/or challenges to strengthen social perspective taking, self-awareness, executive functioning, social problem solving, and so much more.
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$274.99
$304.98
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.
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$29.99
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.
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$35.99
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.
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$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.
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$69.99
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.
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$27.99
Visual Supports for 10 Key Social Thinking Vocabulary Concepts
Visual Supports for 10 Key Social Thinking Vocabulary Concepts
Ages: 4+
These colorful visual supports (11” x 14”) promote the active use of 10 Social Thinking® Vocabulary concepts that lay the foundation for social emotional learning using the Social Thinking® Methodology. They are a visual way to show abstract elements of the social world in a concrete manner. As you introduce each of the 10 concepts, display the corresponding visual support (mini-poster) as a reminder to think about the concept. Set of 10; not sold individually.
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$24.99
Think Social! A Social Thinking Curriculum for School-Age Students
Think Social! A Social Thinking Curriculum for School-Age Students
Ages: 4+
Think Social! is a comprehensive curriculum that includes over 69 Social Thinking® evidenced-informed concepts, frameworks, and strategies. A valuable resource for any professional or parent teaching social emotional concepts to school-age students—including both neurotypicals and Neurodivergents with social learning differences and/or challenges. The curriculum has basic suggestions for linking lessons to academic standards.
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$91.99
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.
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$44.99
$49.98
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.
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$34.99
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!
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$24.99
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.
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$53.99
$59.98
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.
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$34.99
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!
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$24.99
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.
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$53.99
$59.98
Superflex Bingo
Superflex Bingo
Ages: 7-10+
New language & character updates! A FUN and FLEXIBLE game developed for children (ages 7–10+) who have been actively working with the You Are a Social Detective! 2nd Edition storybook and the Superflex® curriculum and are familiar with core Social Thinking Vocabulary. Unlike the “matching” format of traditional bingo games, Superflex® Bingo engages players in “thinking through the Bingo Board” to expand their social emotional learning. Players listen to and think through hundreds of different social situations to identify when Superflex is engaged, which of the 14 UnthinkaBots® are causing havoc, or which Social Thinking Vocabulary concept is being discussed. Includes 12 different themed card packs. Perfect for use in the classroom, clinic, or home.
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$39.99
I Get It! Building Social Thinking and Reading Comprehension Through Book Chats
I Get It! Building Social Thinking and Reading Comprehension Through Book Chats
Ages: 4-9
Reading comprehension is more than decoding words. In fact, it depends less on language comprehension and more on a student's social thinking ability. Use this innovative resource to leverage children’s love of stories while teaching core Social Thinking® Vocabulary and concepts to strengthen reading comprehension. This book presents an organized teaching approach called Book Chat that helps kids explore social context and unlock character perspectives and emotions within a story. It’s loaded with recommended storybooks aligned with specific Social Thinking concepts, as well as ideas and examples for writing IEP goals for learning social emotional concepts through reading.
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$28.99
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!
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$184.99
$204.94
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:
- Conversation & social connection
- Executive functioning
- Friendship & relationship development
- Perspective taking
- Self-regulation
- Social Thinking Vocabulary
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