SOCIAL THINKING BOOKS Archive

  • North River Press wins social thinking award

    You Are a Social Detective Wins Again!

    You Are a Social Detective! Explaining Social Thinking to Kids wins a 2012 National Parenting Publications Award, joining an elite list of outstanding “must-have” products for parents The National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) has bestowed an Honors Award on You Are a Social Detective! Explaining...

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  • You Are a Social Detective by Michelle Garcia Winner and Pamela Crooke

    Social Thinking Book Wins Mom’s Choice Award

    North River Press and Social Thinking are pleased to announce that You Are a Social Detective! Explaining Social Thinking® to Kids has won a Silver Award in the Mom’s Choice Awards® Competition. The Mom’s Choice Awards has selected You Are a Social Detective! Explaining Social...

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  • Michelle Garcia Winner

    Perspective Taking in the Workplace

    This article, by Michelle Garcia Winner, MA, CCC-SLP, and Pamela Crooke, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, authors of Social Thinking at Work: Why Should I Care? was written for HR staff and workplace managers, psychologists and therapists. We are social creatures, and what drives our social behavior is...

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  • Social Thinking at Work by Michelle Garcia Winner

    The Social Mind at Work

    This article, written Michelle Garcia Winner, MA, CCC-SLP, and Pamela Crooke, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, authors of Social Thinking at  Work: Why Should I Care?, is tailored to Human Resource managers, counselors, psychologists and therapists who support adults in the workplace. “Social thinking” is how we think...

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  • Social Thinking at Work by Michelle Garcia Winner

    Socially Adept, Socially Inept: Social Thinking in Today’s Workplace

    This article, for Human Resource staff and workplace managers, was written by Michelle Garcia Winner, MA, CCC-SLP, and Pamela Crooke, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, authors of Social Thinking at Work: Why Should I Care? Everyone knows someone who can be said to have good or bad social...

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  • Think Social

    Social Thinking Books

    Michelle Garcia Winner, MA, CCC-SLP, coined the term social thinking and developed the social thinking treatment approach for individuals with high-functioning autism. Social Thinking Books, a collaboration between North River Press and Winner’s Think Social Publishing, offers educational tools that can be used to help...

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  • Michelle Garcia Winner

    Review of “Social Thinking at Work”

    “Social Thinking at Work: Why Should I Care? is helpful to all adults in the workplace who wish they could blend in and have a better relationship with the others they meet or work with every day,” says Lorna d’Entremont of Special Needs Book Review....

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  • Michelle Garcia Winner

    Review of “Social Thinking at Work”

    Social Thinking at Work: Why Should I Care? is “a game changer,” says reviewer Dennise Goldberg. The book, by Michelle Garcia Winner—who coined the term social thinking and developed the social thinking treatment approach for individuals with high-functioning autism—and Pamela Crooke, applies the concept of...

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  • Social Thinking Books North River Press

    “Why Don’t They Like Me?” Sunday Independent

    Social Thinking Books author Michelle Garcia Winner, MA, CCC-SLP, coined the term social thinking and developed the social thinking treatment approach for individuals with high-functioning autism. Noting that Garcia Winner’s ideas are rapidly gaining currency in Britain, the South African Sunday Independent published a story...

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  • Michelle Garcia Winner

    EXCERPT from Social Thinking at Work

    Introduction The Social Mind: It’s Always on the Job, Even When You’re Off the Job When people at work say they were, “talking around the water cooler” or “making small talk,” what do they really mean? Why is it that someone can come up with...

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  • Michelle Garcia Winner

    Social Thinking at Work: Why Should I Care?

    by Michelle Garcia Winner and Pamela Crooke From Silicon Valley to Wall Street…  Social Thinking at Work: Why Should I Care? is a guidebook for understanding and navigating the social complexities of the workplace. In this groundbreaking book, Michelle Garcia Winner and Pamela Crooke describe...

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  • Explaining Social Thinking to Kids

    You are a Social Detective: Explaining Social Thinking to Kids

    by Michelle Garcia Winner and Pamela Crooke Every one of us is a Social Detective. We are good Social Detectives when we use our eyes, ears, and brains to figure out what others are planning to do next or are presently doing and what they...

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  • Social thinking guide for teens young adults

    Socially Curious, Curiously Social: A Social Thinking Guide for Bright Teens and Young Adults

    by Michelle Garcia Winner and Pamela Crooke This anime-illustrated guidebook is written for teens and young adults to learn how the social mind is expected to work in order to effectively relate to others at school, at work, in the community and even at home....

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  • North River Press

    Introducing Social Thinking Books

    North River Press is pleased to announce a collaboration with Michelle Garcia Winner’s Think Social Publishing to publish books related to Social Thinking®. Social Thinking books are educational tools that can be used to help kids, teens and adults with high-functioning autism, ADHD and bright...

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  • Explaining Social Thinking to Kids

    EXCERPT from You Are a Social Detective

    You Are a Social Detective is a comic book. Here are two sample pages:

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  • Social thinking guide for teens young adults

    EXCERPT from Socially Curious, Curiously Social

    For Parents And Caregivers What do you say to your 14-year-old socially challenged son when he comes home from high school and says to you, “Mom, how do I make small talk? My teacher says the topics I talk about can’t be sustained in a...

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