Social Thinking™ > Adult

Encourage the development of emotional awareness with the Feelings Scale, a powerful visual tool designed to make understanding and managing emotions both intuitive and engaging. Whether used at home, in classrooms, or during therapy sessions, this colorful vertical scale helps individuals of all ages explore their own and others’ feelings—without needing to find the “right” emotion words. With nine expressive emojis that represent the full range of emotional intensity, the Feelings Scale transforms abstract feelings into something more concrete, relatable, and easy to discuss. On the reverse side, you’ll find practical tips, fascinating insights about how feelings work, and clear teaching concepts to support meaningful social-emotional learning. Thoughtfully designed, versatile, and visually appealing, the Feelings Scale is the perfect resource for anyone looking to build emotional regulation skills, spark conversation, and create a more compassionate learning environment.

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A Social Thinking Guidebook for Bright Teens and Young Adults This detailed guidebook was developed with the input of neurodivergent teens and young adults as a way to help sail the stormy seas of dating, texting, lies, and everyday relationships. Targeted strategies encourage readers to better navigate their social worlds, develop stronger social competencies, and manage social anxiety. This book gets rave reviews from adolescent and young adult readers. Parents, educators, and therapists also appreciate how it better equips them to explain how the social world works using real-life teen situations. Recommended Ages 14-22

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This empowering collection of books and tools supports and celebrates neurodivergent learners by acknowledging and embracing their unique strengths, by explaining how all of our brains work in different and valuable ways, and by offering powerful social emotional teaching, strategies, and tools to help meet their needs and provide opportunities for growth that align with their personal goals. Perfect for kids, caregivers, educators, and clinicians, this inspiring assortment of products will set the stage for understanding and supporting neurodivergent learners in a variety of settings. Books included in this bundle: Different Thinkers: Autism Dear You, Love From Your Brain Power Cards Listen, Learn, and Grow

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Different Thinkers Autism is a child-friendly, beautifully illustrated guide that helps young readers understand autism and embrace neurodiversity. Through relatable stories, simple language, and empowering prompts, it explains how autism can shape thoughts, feelings, and behaviors—while celebrating the unique strengths of autistic children. Perfect for kids, parents, educators, and clinicians, this uplifting book encourages self-acceptance and growth, showing that being a different thinker is something to be proud of. A child-centered guide that explains autism and highlights the gifts of being neurodivergent! Using simple language, complemented by appealing and captivating illustrations, Different Thinkers Autism offers an accessible and uplifting message about what it means to have autism, how autism affects emotions and behaviors, and what children can do to manage any challenges while building on their individual strengths. Written for elementary-age youth, parents, educators, and clinicians, the book features three vignettes of children who are autistic. Each vignette highlights various aspects of autism and how these can shape a child’s behaviors and relationships at home and in school. Thought-provoking prompts are included throughout the text to help young readers better understand an autism diagnosis, explore what it means to be a different thinker, and find empowerment and self-acceptance. Different Thinkers Autism gives young children information and strategies that can help them flourish while reminding them that their strengths, interests, and abilities are what define them.

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A Mom’s Choice Award winner! Make Social and Emotional Learning Stick!: Practical Activities to Help Your Child Manage Their Emotions, Navigate Social Situations, and Decrease Anxiety, Expanded and Updated, (black and white version!) has helped thousands of families manage their child’s emotions, increase positive behavior and social skills, reduce anxiety, and so much more! Does your child struggle to fit in, make friends, have social confidence, socialize, and navigate social situations? Learn how to help them become more aware, empathetic, and able to understand social and emotional skills to gain perspective and make friends. Does your child experience high levels of anxiety or BIG emotions with meltdowns that happen in the blink of an eye? Get inspired with mindful activities, coping tools, and daily calming strategies to boost your child’s emotional intelligence, regulation, and ability to pause before they react. Are you looking for the energy and patience to help your child develop these skills, but too busy managing the meltdowns, self-regulation issues, and behaviors that come from sensitivities, anxiety, ADHD, or autism? This Mom’s Choice Award–winning book offers practical ideas in a user-friendly structure with simple and fun activities that help parents do just that. Because your child learns the most from YOU! Children need ongoing exposure for greater awareness and understanding of themselves and the complex world in which they live—as well as explanations and practice throughout the day—to manage their emotions, navigate social situations, and reduce anxiety. Over 200 updated simple and easy-to-understand activities show you the teachable moments to use throughout your daily routines with your child. Getting ready for the day, preparing and eating meals together, reading time, going to the doctor, celebrating holidays, and partnering with your child’s school become opportunities for discovery and practice of expected social behavior. These social and emotional skills activities, including new mindfulness practices and a new section on bridging home and school, are invaluable for busy or overwhelmed parents. When you have the tools you need to help your child, you can both become more calm, confident, and connected. Read Make Social and Emotional Learning Stick! and help your child: Build conversation skills for better relationships Navigate transitions and boundaries, and try new things Focus on schoolwork instead of resisting or complaining Gain listening and mindfulness skills to build better friendships Identify hidden social rules that make social situations easier Learn empathy and how to see others’ perspectives instead of just their own Develop tools to build resilience and emotional regulation, decrease anxiety, and much more! Help your child thrive socially and emotionally—without either of you getting frustrated or overwhelmed!

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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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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. If kids with anxiety could see themselves the way we see them, they would feel so much bigger than their anxiety. They would feel so much bigger than everything. Hey Awesome explains how the same brain that can make them 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.

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Like all beautiful, strong, important things, brains take time to build. Along the way, children have an enormous capacity to influence the brain-building process in profound and enduring ways. First though, they need information that will help them perform their magic. This book will help children discover more about the brain – how it works, what it needs, and how to love it big so it can love it back bigger.

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The Power Card Strategy is a game-changer, harnessing the magic of a child's interests and passions to inspire them to tackle the complexities of social interaction and problem solving with newfound confidence. This invaluable resource is designed for dedicated teachers and caregivers seeking effective strategies to empower children and adolescents who grapple with social misunderstandings and emotional regulation challenges.

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Set 1 serves two purposes: 1. provides educators, therapists, and caregivers with information to assess the needs of their social learners through 7 conceptual frameworks, and 2. provides 6 teaching frameworks for use with social learners. Each one of these ready-to-use visual scaffolds displays an important social concept through a user-friendly graphic on one side and step-by-step instructions and resource recommendations on the back Ages: All Ages

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People are complicated and so is the huge social world. Here are 13 more of our most helpful and popular teaching frameworks in a portable, user-friendly set to help social learners ages 4-adult build social competencies across a wide range of social landscapes. Tried, tested, and perfected over 25 years, these visual supports dissect complex social concepts into user-friendly graphics and logical steps that make sense to social learners Ages: All Ages

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Teaching perspective taking and Social Thinking to persons with Social Cognitive Learning Challenges Perspective taking is the ability of one person to consider the point of view and motives of another. Although this sounds simple, it is a hugely complex task crucial to successful interpersonal relations, and something those with a social cognition disability will struggle to understand. This book offers exercises and activities for students. Illustrated with clear diagrams and tables, and with photocopiable handouts, this book is invaluable for anyone assessing, living with or teaching children and adults with this most abstract of all learning disabilities. The 2nd Edition includes extensive curriculum content on perspective-taking, the Social Thinking® Dynamic Assessment Protocol Ages: All Ages

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Most people are born with an intuitive sense of the social world that allows them to naturally be aware of social expectations and feeds them the information they need to follow the social code. But not everyone is born with intuitive social understanding. Challenges can arise in the workplace when employees expect their coworkers to have the same social understanding. This 200+ page book is a primer about the social mind in the workplace, but the concepts and strategies are equally applicable in all areas of life. This book is geared to young adults and adults on why social thinking/social skills are important in the workplace, community, and in relationships. This book was previously titled 'Good Intentions are Not Good Enough'. Ages: Adult

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