TPP 094: Social Thinking and Differently Wired Kids, with Michelle Garcia Winner
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is Social Thinking and why does it matter for differently wired kids?
I'm very much engaged in treating the person and trying to figure out their social learning system to be able to figure out how to teach them rather than saying, oh, you have a social problem, now we're gonna do an algorithm of a, you know, now we're gonna teach you to say hi and then we're gonna teach you to ask for one thing or other. You know, let like let's really understand who this kid is.
Welcome to the Tilt Parenting Podcast, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Rieber, and today's episode features a conversation with speech language pathologist and specialist working with kids who have social learning challenges, Michelle Garcia Winner. Michelle is the founder and CEO of Social Learning. Social Thinking, a company dedicated to helping people develop their social competencies to meet their personal social goals. She coined the term social thinking in the mid-1990s and since that time has created numerous unique treatment frameworks and curricula that help educators, clinicians, and professionals.
I first heard of Michelle when a therapist we were working with suggested using her Superflex curriculum. curriculum. At the time we were dealing with the highly inflexible five-year-old boy and I was like, yes, please, give me some of that. And since then I've used many of Michelle's resources to work on social thinking with Asher, so I was thrilled to have the chance to talk to the woman behind it all. In our conversation, we talk about the concept of social thinking, what it is, why it matters for our kids, how it can be taught and learned, and much more. This was a fascinating conversation that's really relevant to all parents, but especially parents with differently wired kids. I hope you enjoy it.
And before we get to our chat, a quick reminder to grab the new parenting SOS cheat sheet I put together on Tilt Parenting. I went through all 50 of my podcast episodes from 2017, and I pulled the 10 most powerful parenting strategies I learned from them and created a downloadable PDF with those strategies that you can print out and stick on your fridge. The mini poster features advice from Dr. Ross Green, author Jessica Leahy, executive functioning coach Seth Perler, and more. And it's designed to offer you. kind of quick helpful strategies. I also created six beautifully designed wallpaper quotes from these strategies for your cell phone so you can grab some inspiration on the go anytime you turn on your phone.
To download those and the cheat sheet, go to tiltparenting.com/slash cheat sheet. Okay, that's enough announcements for this episode. Now without further ado, here's my conversation with Michelle. I hope you enjoy Hi, Michelle. Welcome to the podcast. Thanks, Debbie. Glad to be here. I'm really looking forward to this conversation. you know, of course, personally, 'cause I'm a big fan of your work, but I'm so excited to share your company social thinking and all the incredible resources with our community because I think they are so relevant to what the kids that we're raising are going through. So before we get into social thinking and what you do, would you just take a minute to introduce yourself and tell us kind of who you are and what your background is?
So my name is Michelle Garcia Winner. I'm the founder of Social Thinking and I'm trained, I have a master's in speech language pathology, and I got into that field because of I was interested in autism. They taught a class in that in 1979 at my university.
How did Michelle Garcia Winner develop the Social Thinking methodology?
And so I started working with classically autistic, those with weaker measured learning abilities and very Weak to nonverbal, unable to produce language or weak language systems. And so I specialized in that for many years and then ended up working with people in hospitals with head injuries and learning about higher order thinking and executive functioning. And I ended up then in the mid-90s getting involved in Asperger syndrome when it first became known through our diagnostic manuals.
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