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Social Thinking at Home 9/29/12 Presenter: Meg Presley, MS, CCC‐SLP
How have we defined Social Skills? • • • • •
Eye Contact Turn Taking Maintaining a Topic of ConversaGon Personal Space Reading Other’s Body Language
We are making a shift to ! Social Thinking! Social Thinking is a theory or philosophy developed by Michelle Garcia Winner. hPp://www.socialthinking.com/what‐is‐social‐thinking/about‐michelle‐ garcia‐winner
Social Thinking is “what we do when we interact with people: we think about them. How we think about people affects how we behave, which in turn affects how others respond to us, which in turn affects our emoGons.”
Major Themes:! • People pay aPenGon to make others feel good and that makes people want to be with you. • You have to think about what others are thinking. • Students learn to observe other people’s behavior and form judgments (thoughts about them) • Social thinking is done in all environments.
Key Points to Social Thinking: • We think with our eyes to figure out other people’s thoughts, intenGons, emoGons, and plans – “reading the room” • Our thoughts and emoGons are strongly connected • Realizing that everyone has thoughts about other people, even when we are not interacGng with them • We want people to have good thoughts about us so we adjust our behavior to achieve that goal
Our Goal: We want to share the “Social Secrets” with our students. Typically developing students naturally pick up the social cues and social rules for appropriate behavior in all different situaGons. Students with social cogniGon difficulGes need direct teaching of these skills and explicit teaching of these rules.
Goal for us today: Today we want to focus on how you, as parents, can support your children in the area of social thinking in your everyday lives.
Our Focus: There are many tools and strategies that we use to improve social cogniGon. Today, we will focus on the use of one tool, behavior maps, and how to incorporate these into your lives.
What are Behavior Maps? • A visual tool that shows the student the consequences of their social behaviors (both posiGve and negaGve). • It makes abstract concepts more concrete using a flow chart, or graphic organizer • Behavior maps show what the expected and unexpected behaviors are in different situaGons.
Handout 7 Social Behavior Map Template-l : Behaviors that are EXPECTED Context Behaviors, feelings, and consequences are listed in categories in arbitrary order. There is not a one-to-one c6rrehtion between the information listed in each column. For example, whatever behavior is listed first does not have to match the first emotional reaction or the first consequence, and so on.
Expected Behaviors
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. Michelle has a "happy voice.'
Possible SituaGons: • • • • • • • • •
Play Dates Library Grocery store Movies Aquarium Playground Birthday parGes Holidays School AcGviGes
Some addiGonal reminders as you prepare for an acGvity: • Pre‐teach vocabulary related to the acGvity • Generate and review behavior maps • Pre‐teach comments/quesGons that might be used in the situaGon • Support your child during the acGvity as needed • Debrief ader the acGvity – what went well and what could you do bePer
In closing… This is a long process that will conGnue throughout your child’s life. It’s a hard journey but celebrate the small successes along the way!! Your children deserve it!
Thank you for coming!
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