Social Perspective Taking

This short 2-hour course is designed to give educators, therapists, and parents/caregivers an understanding of the We Thinkers! series, a metacognitive curriculum for 4- to 7-year-olds. It introduces social cognitive concepts; strategies for implementing the series with fidelity, including engineering the environment, pacing, and playing with the concepts; and highlights key components of social thinking, group formulation, and service delivery. Lessons are story-based, games oriented, and support inquiry-based learning using hands-on, multisensory teaching tools. The 90-day Recorded Replay Access begins at the time of Registration.

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What is alexithymia? It refers to challenges in developing awareness of one’s feelings, identifying, and distinguishing them from other physical sensations—and it’s gaining interest in the research, schools, and clinical arenas. Educators and parents have reported an increase in overall “regulation” challenges in the classroom, on the playground, and during small group activities. We’ll highlight select key aspects of emotional awareness and regulation and its role in perspective taking. Specifically, we’ll explore how alexithymia can impact the building blocks for spontaneous perspective taking across all contexts. We will suggest practical strategies to increase awareness of feelings within the perspective-taking process to use within the classroom, school, community, and home. The 90-day Recorded Replay Access begins at the time of Registration.

Small talk and conversations are dynamic, and we cannot create reliable scripts for how they will unfold. We can, however, increase our students' awareness of why we engage in social exchanges such as small talk. In this online course, we will unpack the complexities of small talk and conversation. We’ll break these down into their component parts to build strategies that support engagement in initial and ongoing social connection for children, teens, and adults. The 90-day Recorded Replay Access begins at the time of Registration.