Social Thinking™ > Autism/Neurodiversity

Let’s Solve It! Step-by-Step Social Problem Solving with Kids, 3-book Teaching Set, gives educators, therapists, parents, and caregivers a structured, visual, step-by-step way to teach kids about social problem solving through illustrated stories and problem-solving templates. Two story books help kids explore situations through multiple perspectives, while the companion teaching templates enhance understanding of basic concepts, encourage engagement, and build critical thinking skills.

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The Zones of Regulation Series 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 5-Poster Set.

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STOP, OPT and GO® gives students an easy-to-remember phrase and visual to help them before they act on an impulse. Teachers and parents can use the poster as an on-the-spot teaching tool to STOP and describe the situation, brainstorm possible OPTions and the possible outcomes of each, and help students GO by selecting the best possible solution. This concept helps students learn to think through options that aid in self-regulation and conflict resolution. The dry erase surface makes this poster usable again and again in the classroom, clinic, or home (use only dry erase markers). This poster is a companion product to the self-regulation curriculum The Zones of Regulation® by Leah Kuypers, and aligns with Lesson 17 in the book.

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This updated poster supports the decision making that goes into regulation, while also addressing problem solving and group conflict resolution. First we pause (STOP) before we act, think about our OPTions and how they may work out, then use our GOal to decide on the best option. It can also be used proactively to prepare learners to manage themselves when they encounter previously identified triggers.

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A Curriculum to Foster Self-Regulation and Emotional Control This curriculum has lessons and activities designed to help students gain skills in the area of self-regulation. Students can learn to recognize when they are in the different Zones (states of alertness/moods) as well as learn how to use strategies (including sensory supports, calming techniques, and thinking strategies) to regulate the Zone they are in. Students can also increase their vocabulary of emotional terms, skills in reading facial expressions, perspective on how others see and react to their behaviour, insight on events that trigger their behaviour, calming and alerting strategies, and problem solving skills.

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Tools to Try Cards for Tweens & Teens is a multi-sensory card deck to help 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. These visually appealing 4"x6" cards feature a relatable tween-teen character using a tool on one side and a how-to-do-it description on the reverse, along with a teen-focused Why to Try? and self-reflection. This hands-on metacognitive strategy deck supplements The Zones of Regulation curriculum and pairs well with Navigating The Zones cooperative game and its supplemental Advanced Pack for additional levels of play.

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Regulation Strategies to Focus, Calm, Think, Move, Breathe, and Connect Learning to self-regulate our Zones is hard, serious work that takes time and lots of practice. Tools to Try Cards for Kids includes 51 4"x 6" tool cards and is an easy, user-friendly way to introduce over 50 self-regulation strategies to kids ages 5-10 and empower them to make choices toward figuring out what works best for them. For best teaching practice, the strategy card deck should be used in tandem with lessons introducing tools for use with Zones from Chapter 4 in the curriculum book, The Zones of Regulation, as well as other related products, such as Navigating The Zones. (4" x 5")

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The Zones of Regulation Series The updated, fully-colored, 24” x 18” The Zones of Regulation Tools poster reinforces the use of the four Zones. This durable teaching visual helps learners recognize common feelings and body signals associated with each one and includes a space to add strategies or tools to support regulation of each Zone. The poster has updated content, a refreshed design, and new feeling illustrations that match artwork from the Digital Curriculum. A new "Possible Body Signals" reference is included in each Zone with lines for learners to write in possible tools for each Zone.

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The Zones of Regulation Series   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.

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Get in the zone! Discover why this best-selling, easy-to-use regulation framework has been adopted across classrooms worldwide for mainstream social emotional learning intervention with individuals at developmental ages 5-18+. This all-in-one bundle provides all the books, strategy card decks, and games developed to teach with fidelity Leah Kuypers' "The Zones of Regulation" curriculum. This bundle includes the award-winning core curriculum The Zones of Regulation, the award-winning two-storybook set, two award-winning Tools to Try card decks, one for elementary school children and one for tweens and teens, the Navigating The Zones game, and its supplemental Advanced Pack.

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With fresh designs and updated concepts, this all-new 5-Poster Set is a companion product to The Zones of Regulation Digital Curriculum and Getting Into The Zones of Regulation. Set includes: The all-new Zones Check-In dry-erase poster (18" x 24"), the all-new The Zones of Regulation Pathway poster (24" x 18"), the updated The Zones of Regulation dry-erase poster (24" x 18"), the updated Zones STOP, OPT and GO dry-erase poster (18" x 24"), and the updated Zones Triggers & Sparks dry-erase poster (24" x 18"). Individual posters are also sold separately.

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Explaining Social Thinking to Kids | Superflex Series A multiple award winner! This first storybook in the Superflex Series introduces the foundational concepts of social observation from the child’s perspective. It encourages kids to become “social detectives” to observe the social world and learn a few of the unique Social Thinking Vocabulary to help them figure out what is happening across different contexts. You Are a Social Detective! 2nd Edition is an award-winning storybook that should be taught over an extended period and revisited often to encourage social learning in all contexts.

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Our premier social learning package for children ages 4–7 helps develop foundational social competencies. The multiple award-winning We Thinkers! Volume 1: Social Explorers includes five storybooks and a thorough unit-by-unit curriculum. The storybooks correspond to and support detailed lessons for teaching five evidence-based concepts that establish a common social vocabulary for early learners and are fundamental to all social experiences. These practice-proven materials are designed for both neurotypically developing children and those with social learning differences and/or challenges to strengthen perspective taking, self-awareness, and so much more. Note: The Incredible Flexible You music album is not included with this set. Find it on Apple Music and Amazon Music to purchase or stream.

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Social Detective & Superflex Series® Looking for an engaging, proactive way to teach social awareness, perspective taking, and self-regulation? Kids around the world are having so much fun learning how to transform themselves into a Social Detective® as well as their own "Superflex®" superhero that looks just like them. Within the Superflex books, lessons are structured to encourage students to pretend to manage imaginary characters called the UnthinkaBots® and, in later lessons, engage their Thinkable powers. This All-In-One Bundle contains a collection of Detective & Superflex series products, including our award-winning You Are a Social Detective! 2nd Edition storybook, brand new You Are a Social Detective! Teaching Curriculum & Support Guide® (designed as companion guide to teach the concepts explored in the award-winning storybook), new release Superflex Takes Flight Board game, Superflex Curriculum Package® Revised Edition 2024, Superflex Super Sticker Collection®, This collection of Superflex® products is great for schools and clinics where staff can share them for years to come. Eleven pieces in all!

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Use this updated dry-erase poster (18" x 24") as you teach individuals ages 8+ Social Situation Mapping (SSM). SSM is a powerful, versatile, metacognitive tool to encourage an understanding of how we are all part of a socially responsive community; that the things we ALL do impact one another's thoughts and feelings, which guides what we do and say, and ultimately how we feel ourselves. The poster outlines the 10-step teaching and discovery process that helps learners understand social situations and get a better insight into why people do and say what they do. The map starts with defining a particular situation; the location, people, and what is happening. Then, individuals follow a structured process to understand how words and actions impact not only thoughts and feelings, but actions as well. This proactive visual tool is designed to initially teach from the individual's point of view (i.e., inside out teaching) and how others impact their thoughts and feelings. Note: Earlier versions of this product were referred to as Social Behavior Mapping.

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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

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UPDATED! The Superflexes Take on the Unthinkabots Poster colorfully displays all 14 of the original Team of Unthinkables in a fresh new and larger format. When we use our flexible thinking we can overcome the sneaky Unthinkables. The Unthinkables range from Glassman to Rock Brain to Worry Wall and Energy Hare-y, with the poster displaying each of their powers and how they try to sabotage our thinking and social behaviors. With this newly updated edition, you'll also notice tweaks to several of our characters to bring more diversity into the characters and the curriculum. The larger format is a great visual tool to supplement the Superflex Superhero Curriculum and for use in the classroom, clinic, or at home! This is a dry erase poster.

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Our Thinkables represent the expected thinking and behaviors that kids learn through the use of our related curriculum. Superflex represents the superflexible social thinking that's in each of us. When we use our flexible thinking our Thinkables, who are part of Superflex's team, start showing up! The poster displays each of the 14 Thinkables, their names, and each of their powers. A great visual tool to supplement the Superflex Superhero Curriculum and for use in the classroom, clinic, or at home! This is a dry erase poster.

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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.

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Set 1 contains two types of frameworks: seven conceptual frameworks specifically help interventionists explore the social emotional assessment and treatment needs of individuals and six treatment frameworks for teaching core concepts about emotions directly to social learners.

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What's going on around us influences our thoughts, feelings, and choices. Social Situation Mapping (formerly Social Behavior Mapping) teaches learners how to use social observation to figure out what to do or say (or not do and say) based on the situation. Revised, updated, and retitled, this hands-on book includes 80+ completed Social Situation Maps to explore 40+ common situations at school, home, and in the community. The maps outline the Social Emotional Chain Reaction, which shows how we all impact one another when sharing space, and provide multiple options for choices and their consequences through the learner's perspective.

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If you've been using the Navigating the Zones©, game, you can easily integrate the Advanced Extension Pack and Game Cards to help more advanced thinkers (age 10+) further develop their problem solving and self-regulation skills. These advanced cards for the Navigating The Zones cooperative game introduce three additional levels of play-including competitive game play! The Advanced Extension Pack provides more nuanced Situation and Feeling Cards and encourages flexible, strategic thinking by introducing Wild Cards, Trade-A-Cards. Box contains 300 Advanced Situation Cards (100 of each: Home, School, Community), 100 Advanced Feeling Cards, 40 Tool Cards (10 per Zone color), 30 Starter Cards, 25 Challenge Cards, Plastic card deck tray and labels.

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This social learning method explains different easy-to-find movies and their accompanying lessons. Each lesson plan identifies the clips used in the movie, and then for each clip, presents ideas and suggestions for teaching Spy Eye, Detective Head, and Me Too! tasks. These tasks help students develop their abilities to identify context, take perspective and make personal connections. Instead of a CD, handouts that include all seven lesson plans as well as ready-to-print templates, handouts, and letters are available to download. (The book outlines directions and website to do this.)

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The Complete Framework and Digital Curriculum Companion (Print Edition) | The Zones of Regulation Series   For those who like a book as their "go to" for an organized, easy-to-access, comprehensive reference, the all new Getting Into The Zones of Regulation is the must-have print companion to The Zones of Regulation® Digital Curriculum. This comprehensive companion guide provides all the foundational knowledge and implementation guidance needed for educators, therapists, or caregivers to teach The Zones with fidelity. Included in the print guide is 6 months of FREE ACCESS to CONCEPT 1 of the Digital Curriculum. Instructions to access downloadables and online resources are printed inside the book.

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