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 Thinking to Kids by Michelle Garcia Winner and Pamela Crooke, as among the best in family-friendly products and services. The book has won a Silver Award in the 2012 competition.
“We are delighted to receive this recognition,” said Winner and Crooke. “Kids love discovering that every one of us is a social detective and learning strategies to figure out what others are thinking or planning to do next, and what they mean by their words and actions. It gives them more confidence during social interactions.”
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tertaining comic book format and written for use with children K-5, You Are a Social Detective! breaks down the often-confusing social world and teaches kids to use their eyes, ears, and brains to develop their own social detective skills. The book is particularly useful for students with social skills and social communication challenges, such as those with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Asperger’s Syndrome, ADHD, as well as other learning differences. Sample lesson plans help adults introduce Winner’s engaging Social Thinking vocabulary to kids in a way that makes learning fun. You Are a Social Detective! is the first book in the widely-popular Social Thinking teaching series, Superflex and the Team of Unthinkables, created by Winner and Stephanie Madrigal.
The Mom’s Choice Awards is an international awards program that recognizes authors, inventors, companies, parents and others for their efforts in creating quality family-friendly media, products and services. An esteemed panel of judges includes education experts, parents, children, librarians, as well as media, creative, and business experts. Among them: Dr. Twila C. Liggett, ten-time Emmy-winner, professor and founder of PBS’s Reading Rainbow; Julie Aigner-Clark, Creator of Baby Einstein, Jodee Blanco, New York Times best-selling author, and Patricia Rossi, host of NBC’s Manners Minute.
Michelle Garcia Winner is a speech-language pathologist who specializes in the treatment of students with social cognitive challenges at the Social Thinking Center, her clinic in San Jose, CA. In the mid-1990s she coined the term “Social Thinking” and developed a treatment framework that is now being used in schools and organizations around the world. A sought-after public speaker and prolific author, Winner has written or co-authored more than 20 books on Social Thinking. In 2008 she was awarded a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition for developing the treatment approach.
Pamela Crooke, PhD, is a speech-language pathologist and senior therapist at the Social Thinking Center. She has an active caseload of children, teens and adults and is the co-author with Winner of four books on Social Thinking. Crooke has served on the clinical faculty of three universities and is an active public speaker internationally. Her research on the effectiveness of using Social Thinking vocabulary was published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
For more information, contact:
Amy Gallagher
North River Press
(800) 486-2665
agallagher@northriverpress.com
