Social Thinking Tip – Thinking Plus Doing

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listen to ‘Social Thinking Tip: Thinking + Doing’ on Audioboo Before I learned to drive, I had to take a few lessons about the rules of the road.  I had to learn the different parts of the car, how to read stop lights at a 4 way intersection, how to yield the right of way [...]

Social Thinking Tip – Social Math

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listen to ‘Social Thinking – Social Math’ on Audioboo Here are three key concepts to remember from today’s audio blog about social thinking. 1.  Social thinking is like learning math.  You often have to master the basics before going on to more complicated equations.  For example, addition and subtraction come before multiplication and division, algebra, [...]

A Little Known Way To Increase Autism Employment

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I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work.  Work organizes life.  It gives structure and discipline.  Bill Clinton Have you ever watched a dog trying to catch its tail?  It runs around and around, never quite able to get it. That’s what [...]

Social Thinking Introduction for Adults With Aspergers

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This audio blog is excerpted in large part from Michelle Garcia Winner and Pamela Crooke’s book, Socially Curious and Curiously Social: A Social Thinking Guidebook for Bright Teens and Young Adults. listen to ‘Social Skills for Adults With Aspergers’ on Audioboo

Here’s a Method To Enhance Adult Social Skills

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“Loneliness breaks the spirit.”  Jewish proverb Adult Social Skills: Can We Learn Them? In eighth grade, I spent three weeks with my father in a remote part of the Amazon rain forest with the Sanuma Indians.  I didn’t know any words from their Sanuma language, so it was very hard to get to know people [...]