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End of School Sale - 10% Off

New Book! We Can Make It Better Stories!

Community Cultivation: Organic Farming, Social Thinking and Work Skills

Getting Beyond Bullying and Exclusion

Practical Strategies for Different Disciplines To Address a 3-Tier Response to Intervention (RTI)

Social Thinking Meets Response to Intervention (RTI) and Positive Behavior Supports (PBS)

Early Bird Deadline: Social Thinking Providers Conference & Preconference Workshop: June 25-27, 2010

Be Sure to Print Your Presentation Materials and Pick Your Sessions

The Social-Academic Connection, Perspective Taking and More in Boston.

New Workshops on Transitioning to Adulthood in CA and OR

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's BlogEarly Bird Savings!2010 Social Thinking Providers ConferenceJune 25-27, 2010NEW Preconference Day Workshop: the Social Academic Connection and Eyes on AdulthoodJune 25, 2010

Minneapolis Workshops October 13-14, 2010Boston-area WorkshopsOctober 25-26, 2010's New Workshops on Transitioning to Adulthood:Portland, ORNovember 9-10, 2010Concord, CA December 1-2, 2010

May Sale! 10% OffUse code: May31 Good though May 31, 2010(Workshops excluded)Go to Social Thinking StoreOr Click on Titles Below

'sSan Francisco Chronicle Guest Blog on the Origins of Social Thinking and the Providers Conference

"...Cade, typically an energetic and mathematically gifted 10-year old, dragged himself into the Social Thinking therapy group one afternoon. When I asked him what was wrong he stated, `Those stupid kids in my class are slowing down my brain cells and then I'm the one who gets in trouble for it!' When I probed a bit further about the situation, Cade stated that most of the kids in his class aren't as smart as him in math and he was just `stating a fact' when he announced this to the teacher and class...Read more

Ride and Room Sharing for Social Thinking Providers Conference! If you want to ride or room share for the Social Thinking Providers Conference, you might want to post your suggestion to the Social Thinking Facebook page! However, use Facebook's messaging system to communicate directly with anyone (don't post personal details, where you'll be staying, etc., to the Wall)!

New Workshops! Transitioning to Adulthood Portland OR Nov 9-10 Concord CA Dec 1-2

Transitioning into adulthood and living as young adults can overwhelm individuals born to social learning challenges, even those who are "bright" with strong language skills. Exploring what it takes to live and work in our community as adults is fascinating... and overwhelming. These new workshops focus on helping parents and professionals (and, of course, students) prepare for this transition by providing some clear social thinking teaching strategies to explore how to approach social-emotional expectations active throughout the work world and community. Click on an icon to read more!

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Aalborg, DenmarkMay 21, 2010North London, UKJune 9-10, 2010Dublin, IrelandJune 14, 2010All Workshops Schedule

Dear , We are proud to announce the first in a new series of books by educators and therapists who have developed innovative approaches that intersect with Social Thinking or expand upon core concepts. We Can Make It Better!, available now, combines a book and CD of engaging, illustrated scenarios that build problem-solving skills in young elementary school students to help them identify and solve social dilemmas themselves, encouraging social engagement rather than isolation for our students with high-functioning autism, Asperger syndrome, ADHD, NLD and similar. To help launch the book we have put our product line on sale for 10% off (workshops excluded) if you use the coupon code: May31. This sale begins NOW and expires May 31, 2010. Delsandro, MA, CCC-SLP, the creator of the We Can Make It Better! strategy, is also one of 30 presenters at the National Social Thinking Providers' Conference on June 25-27 in South San Francisco. She will discuss how the Make It Better approach integrates with tools such as Carol Gray's Social Stories® and Dunn and Buron's Incredicle 5-Point Scale®. Additional exciting Providers Conference presentation details are below, with brief write-ups on sessions on Response to Intervention and Positive Behavior Supports, an organic farming program that teaches vocational skills to at-risk youth, bullying and empowerment plus many more. Be sure to look at all the full list of presentation objectives/abstracts now on our website and if you've registered, to pick your sessions! Early and group registration discounts are still available for the three-day event.We have also just opened early bird and group registration for my NEW workshops on transitioning to adulthood in Portland, OR, and Concord, CA. And don't forget: early and group discounts are now available online for my workshops in Boston and Minneapolis where I will present a full range of practical strategies related to the social-academic connection, how to better direct individual learning and treatment plans and much more.

We Can Make It Better! A Strategy to Motivate and Engage Young Learners in Social Problem Solving...

At the center of Liz Delandro's We Can Make It Better! strategy is a short story that provides opportunities for an individual or small group to identify social dilemmas, express ideas to make the dilemmas better, and gain more understanding in how one person's behavior (spoken words and actions) can positively or negatively impact the outcome (relationship) between people. The package includes a book and CD with 21 story templates. In addition, Liz is presenting on how to connect this strategy with others, such as Social Stories.Read more on the book/CDRead more on Liz's Providers Providers Conference presentation

Community Cultivation: Organic Farming, Social Thinking and Work Skills

At Community Cultivation, in Steamboat Springs, CO, growing organic vegetables is just the beginning of the development of work skills for participants. They also attend Social Thinking workshops and integrate these concepts into the work environment. The presenters will explore this innovative and successful vocational program that is assisting teenagers with social cognition challenges develop workplace skills.Presenters: Dana Colgan, MA, and Beth on, MA, co-directors and co-founders, Community Cultivation, Steamboat Springs, CORead more on Community Cultivation sessionBrowse all Providers Conference abstractsRegister for June 25-27 Conference

Getting Beyond Bullying and Exclusion

Children with challenges can encounter difficulties in navigating their journeys within mainstream classrooms. This training focuses on the vulnerabilities of youngsters to be bullied, especially those with learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, Asperger syndrome, and gifted abilities, and also discusses the tendencies for these children to become bullies.Presenter: Mah, LMFT, author of book by the same title, Difficult Behavior in Early Childhood and others

More on Bullying and Exclusion sessionBrowse all Providers Conference abstractsRegister for June 25-27 Providers Conference

Practical Strategies for Different Disciplines To Address a 3-Tier Response to Intervention (RTI)

This Providers Conference presentation focuses on Social Thinking Superflex Groups led by the school counselor and the speech therapist in a Texas district in a collaborative effort to address the 3 Tier Response to Intervention model currently required under the No Child Left Behind Act. Most of the students do not carry a Special Education label. Presenters: Terry Weaver, speech therapist, Sonora Independent School District and Amy Davenport, counselor, Sonora Elementary Schoo, Sonora, TX More on Superflex and RTI SessionBrowse all Providers Conference abstractsRegister for June 25-27 Conference

Social Thinking Meets Response to Intervention (RTI) and Positive Behavior Supports (PBS)

This Providers Conference will explore ways that Social Thinking can easily be introduced school-wide, ways that Social Thinking instruction can and should be differentiated for all students, and will offer tools for universal screening, data collection, progress monitoring and more.Presenter: Gretchen Mertes, M. Ed, Educational Specialist in Autism, Special Services for Bethel School District, WAMore on RTI and PBS sessionBrowse all Providers Conference abstractsRegister for June 25-27 Conference

DIR/Floortimeâ„¢ and Social Learning: Complementary Approaches for Supporting Social Development

The DIR/Floortime model is a way of relating to a child in which we recognize and respect the emotional experience and expressions of the child in a way that helps the child use his or her natural emotions with an even greater sense of purpose. Presenter: Dr. Josh Feder, assistant clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. Read more on DIR/Floortime sessionBrowse all Providers Conference abstractsRegister for June 25-27 Conference

Keynote: Helping to Organize the Child: Mind, Body and Soul

The "organized child" encompasses much more than a child's ability to clean up after themselves and to get ready on time. It refers to the child's ability to think in a logical and planful manner. It describes the ability to take perspective, be flexible, and consider multiple possibilities. This talk provides an overview of early brain development, as it relates to organization, and provides appropriate age-based milestones for organizational skills.

Presenter: Dr. Damon Korb, board certified behavioral and developmental pediatrician; founder, the Center for Developing Minds, Los Gatos, CAMore on Helping to Organize the Child keynoteBrowse all Providers Conference abstractsRegister for June 25-27 Providers Conference

Even More Presentations June 25-27, 2010

We can't list them all here! Be sure to take a look at the abstracts/objectives for the 2010 Social Thinking Providers Conference. Thirty educators, therapists and doctors working at the leading edge of practices in social learning will present this year. We've highlighted just a few!Read More on 2010 Providers Conference!

Be Sure to Print Your Presentation Materials

This year, as part of our efforts to be green, attendees must download and print the presentation materials before coming to the conference. Also, if you've registered, please pick your sessions so we can better plan space. By June 11, we will post the presentation materials for attendees to open and print on our website in the abstracts page and the conference and agenda link below.Providers Conference Agenda and Registration Details

Dynamic Assessment, Student-Specific Strategies and More in Minneapolis

These workshops breakdown abstract concepts into defined teachable moments for each student. The Informal Dynamic Assessment Protocol helps to show how each student has specific social-cognitive deficits requiring specific strategies. We'll examine the connection of Social Thinking to written expression, reading comprehension and other academic tasks; how to overcome obstacles to learning - from blurting to boredom; how to write effective IEP goals and much more.

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The Social-Academic Connection, Perspective Taking and More in Boston

The social-academic connection - how social learning abilities or challenges impact classrooms - is a focus of these very practical workshops. Furthermore, I will explore not only the normal development of the early social mind but will also define different levels of perspective taking and how each level affects learning, success in school, at home, in the community, across our entire lives. Early and group discounts are now active!

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Summer Sessions at Teach Social!

As many of you know, we founded a nonprofit clinic, Teach Social!, to provide Social Thinking treatment services, including all summer sessions, in the Bay Area. Please be sure to put in your application if you would like you would like to have your child participate in these sessions! Read More

Each year the Social Thinking Providers Conference showcases the emerging talent in our large community of people dedicated to the further development of innovative treatments for our students and their families. This year is another good example of how Social Thinking is being widely embraced and applied broadly across the school and home day. Liz's Make It Better Stories is also another example of the multiple dimensions we can explore and teach the social learning mind. It is an honor to be part of this talented and growing community! Best regards, WinnerSocial Thinking

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