Social Thinking Groups
Playful Preschoolers
These young learners use playtime as the context for sharing ideas and developing language. Parents have an important partnership in these groups as they join in the play-based learning. Through expert coaching and a lovingly structured environment, our preschool players have enriching opportunities for fun and friendships.
Dynamic Duos
Our Dynamic Duos are novice explorers into the super world of social thinking. Partners in learning to think socially, our Dynamic Duos cooperatively engage in activities that open their minds to new social ideas and experiences. With the guidance of a single coach, these powerful pairs gain super strength in building friendships!
Superflex™ Social Tourists
Welcome to Social Town™! Children embark on a full-fledged tour of Social Town. We will be making frequent stops throughout our tour to explore social thinking, teaching your children's brains to Think Social!TM. Participants in the Superflex Social Tour use their imagination and creativity to find ways to defeat the Team of UnthinkablesTM. In addition to the multiple outings to explore Social Town, children finish this tour with a resource notebook filled with strategies and suggestions to beat their own Unthinkables.
Social Detectives
The Social Detectives are just beginning their journey of social discoveries. They are actively learning as they gather social evidence with their eyes and brains, solving social puzzles as they fill their detective boxes with state of the art problem solving strategies.
Social Astronauts
The Social Astronauts are a group of explorers who are beginning to discover the cosmos of communication and social understanding skills. With plenty of support from ground control, this group begins learning cooperative planning and explores the universe of social challenges and adventures. Each explorer will develop his or her own solar system of new skills, collected in a resource notebook for social understanding. This resource becomes the safe, strong vessel to carry each child as he or she learns to reach for the stars in the ever-expanding universe of relationships.
Social Engineers
The Social Engineers are a group of "construction workers" who are actively building their repertoire of social skills. These children have developed some muscles already with exposure to social understanding concepts and prior group work. Now, with the tools they have collected, they are ready to construct a model for social interactions that will raise them higher and higher into the skyscrapers that make up our communities. Each engineer will gather his or her plans into a resource notebook for social cognition that will become the blueprint for building relationships in the future.
Social Aviators
The Social Aviators are a group of social "high flyers" that have years of experience learning and working with others. These children soar to lofty new heights by using their skills for flexibility and perspective taking to develop new skills in communication, cooperation, and teamwork. Using collaborative group projects, our Social Aviators pool their experiences and resources to build a model for working with others. Over the course of the instructional sessions, each student develops his or her own resource notebook for social cognition that can travel along on all future flights.
Social Scientists
The Social Scientists are a group of advanced thinkers who are learning to collect social "data" and discover the unseen world of nonverbal communication, team planning, and the multitudes of ways to use flexible thinking. This collaborative team probes the subtle microbes of social understanding. Each scientist develops his or her own resource notebook for use in experimenting with new relationships in the future.