Homeschool Resources

Social learning begins at home. As a caregiver and/or homeschooler, you want your children and students to be happy, healthy, and successful in all areas of their lives. That’s where Social Thinking comes in. For more than 25 years, we’ve been developing award-winning curricula like We Thinkers!, Superflex, and The Zones of Regulation, along with books, games, and visual tools to meet the social learning needs and styles of your social learners, whether Neurodivergent or neurotypical, with or without diagnoses. Created by practicing speech-language pathologists and social cognition experts, our resources are flexible, easy to use, and designed for children ages 4-18+ with average to strong language skills. Feedback from families, who adopt the use of our work, has been very positive.

The Social Thinking Methodology® is a research-informed, practice-based approach to teaching social, emotional, and academic learning (SEAL) that is essential for well-being in life, at home, school, and work, which includes developing social competencies such as:

• Understanding one’s feelings and managing one's emotions

• Communicating effectively with others

• Building and maintaining positive relationships

• Working in groups and being with others

• Making socially responsible decisions

1.) Learn more about the Social Thinking Methodology

The Social Thinking® Methodology is designed to teach and support individuals, ages four and older, how to better understand the social world, foster relationships, develop organizational skills, and build social competencies to meet their authentic social goals. The materials in the methodology are comprised of storybooks, teaching curricula, games, posters, and other products that have been developed alongside our clients and families. Our strategies help to break down complex social and organizational concepts into understandable parts that can be applied across settings. We believe that social concepts like social attention, perspective taking, interpretation, and problem solving form the foundation of academic standards. These core building blocks promote literacy, collaboration, and executive functions and provide a scaffold for interpreting abstract academic and social information.

The Social Thinking Methodology focuses on teaching “why” we use social competencies rather than using a behavioral approach to teach people to memorize social skills. For that reason, our materials are a better fit for those who actively think about thinking (metacognition) and have strong expressive language and cognition. And while our work is not a good match for everyone, we promote acceptance and inclusion for all.