Free Stuff for Tweens & Teens (Ages 10+)
Teach social-emotional responsibility to tweens & teens
Free Stuff for Tweens & Teens (Ages 10+)
The Social Thinking Methodology first developed from our work with high schoolers. It’s now the premier, go-to source for understanding the social world through an evidence-based lens, which encourages the ongoing development of teaching concepts, strategies, and tools for working with and supporting tweens and teens as they learn about themselves and others, as well as how to navigate meeting their own goals in the ever-changing landscapes within the social world. Social Thinking's Free Stuff for tweens and teens is designed to be used with both typically developing children and those with social learning differences.
Free Downloadable Thinksheets
Versatile and ready-to-use, our thinksheets (worksheets that make you think!) are designed to help tweens and teens learn to navigate the increasingly complex social world. The thinksheets zero in on real and pressing social challenges faced by tweens and teens, such as managing social anxiety, making friends, dealing with bullies, understanding body language, filtering thoughts and blurting, fitting in & much more.
Double-Dip Feelings
DO ObseRve Thinksheet
Use this visual thinksheet to support students in making transitions across their day—every time they see a door, think DO ObseRve! Read the related article to learn more.
Persistence Through Challenges
I Don't Want to But I Will Anyhow
What to Talk About
What is Self-Advocacy?
Self-Advocacy Checklist
Black & White Thinking
Lurking vs Stalking vs Lingering
Add-a-Thought, Ask a Question
Bridging Brains Thinksheet
Everyone has thoughts! How do we know what other people are thinking? How can we let other people know what we are thinking about? How do we get thoughts from one brain to another? The only way to do it is to bridge your brains!
Social Fortune or Social Fate Free Thinksheets & Teaching Tip
Social Fortune or Social Fate Tips
Award-winning and kid-friendly, Social Fortune or Social Fate: A Social Thinking Manga-Style Map for Social Quest Seekers teaches tweens and teens ages 10+ how to observe the impact of one's behavior upon others through the use of Social Situation Mapping, an important tool for social learning in a graphic-novel format.
Watch the author tip video on the left to learn more.
Problem Solving Thermometer
Re-Frame your Brain
Draw Your Own Social Fortune/Fate Scenario
Free Webinars to Support Your Tweens & Teens
Learn Essential Social Thinking Concepts for Free
Free webinars are presented live by experts in the Social Thinking® Methodology. Core presentations typically run for 60 minutes, followed by a 30 minute Q&A. Browse our entire collection of recorded webinars and soak in all the free information—or explore our hand-picked free webinars to support your tweens & teens. Note: Attendees receive a Certificate of Completion, CEs are not provided to attendees for free webinars.
Free Articles to Support Your Tweens & Teens
Social Thinking is proud to provide an extensive collection of free articles devoted to helping individuals build stronger social awareness and social functioning using the Social Thinking Methodology. Browse our library of free articles and learn strategies you can start using right away. Or explore below our hand-picked free articles to support your tweens & teens. We’re constantly adding material based on the latest research and our evolving client work—so come back often and stay informed!
- Respecting Neurodiversity by Helping Social Learners Meet Their Personal Goals
- Teaching an Essential Life Skill: How to Ask for Help
- 10 Truths & Tips for Making and Keeping Friends
- Three Ways to Advocate for Students Who Appear Persistently “Checked Out”
- A Simple Strategy to Break Through Social Anxiety Barriers
- 10 Levels to Living Independently
- 14 Tips to Help All Kids Learn to Manage Anxiety
- Preparing for the Transition to Adulthood (Part 1)
- Preparing for the Transition to Adulthood (Part 2)
- Preparing for the Transition to Adulthood (Part 3)
- 10 Steps to Foster Organization: Homework and Beyond!
- Aha! Teaching Moments: Social Anxiety and Talking in Class
- Explaining “Social Thinking” to Others: Q&A in Sound Bites
- Teaching Students About Their Learning Styles
- Learned Spontaneity
- The Other Side of the Friendship Pyramid: Dealing with Dislike
- Addressing Social Competencies and Social Anxiety Using the Spirals of Anxiety
- I'm Interested in You—Well, Sort Of: Social Anxiety, Face-to-Face Communication, Digital Devices, and the Art of Saying "Hi"
- Community Is About Caring: Helping Those with Social Anxiety
- Social Metacognition: Using Social Emotional Learning to Engage Hope
- Social Perspective Taking & The 5 Steps of Being with Others
Free Video Lessons to Use at Home & School
For more than 25 years Social Thinking has been a guiding resource for schools, clinics, and families around the world, and we’re here for you, too! The practical nature of our teaching and the concrete way we explain social concepts help engage people in social learning not only about themselves but about others. Whether you're teaching individuals with ADHD, autism (levels 1 or 2), social communication disorders, or an entire mainstream class-our strategies can help you help them.
We are clinicians who create quality educational products and services that break down the social learning process to help you teach it. Our methodology fosters social competencies so foundational that our work applies across cultures, ages, races, religions, mental health diagnoses, etc. and is taught in communities around the world. We stand committed to providing quality, practical information that is rooted in research, built upon real-world experiences, and responsive to the needs of the people who use our methodology. We are constantly learning and gaining inspiration from our clients and others we meet, so our work is ever-evolving yet remains grounded in its adherence to rigorous standards of quality.
In the free videos below our experts share some ideas for using Social Thinking.
Michelle Garcia Winner | MA, CCC-SLP
Michelle Garcia Winner, MA, CCC-SLP
Renee Attaway | MS, CCC-SLP
Ryan Hendrix | MS, CCC-SLP
Michelle Garcia Winner | MA, CCC-SLP
Michelle Garcia Winner | MA, CCC-SLP
Debbie Meringolo | MA, MS, Educator
Michelle Garcia Winner | MA, CCC-SLP
Ryan Hendrix | MS, CCC-SLP
Beckham Linton | MA, CCC-SLP
Michelle Garcia Winner | MA, CCC-SLP
Allison King | MS, CCC-SLP
What is Social Thinking?
Develop Social Competencies
The Social Thinking Methodology provides evidence-based strategies to help people ages four throughout adulthood develop their social competencies, flexible thinking, and social problem solving to meet their own social goals and improve:
- Conversation & social connection
- Executive functioning
- Friendship & relationship development
- Perspective taking
- Self-regulation
- Social Thinking Vocabulary
