Social Thinking Frameworks Collection |Core Practical Treatment Frameworks Set 1

Social Thinking Frameworks Collection |Core Practical Treatment Frameworks Set 1

13 visual teaching scaffolds to assess student social emotional needs and get started with teaching

Created by Michelle Garcia Winner and Pamela Crooke

Start unpacking the social world with Core Practical Treatment Frameworks: Set 1, part of a two-set collection of 26 visual teaching scaffolds for social learning and self-regulation strategies—curated and distilled for the first time in one practical and user-friendly collection. After 25 years of research, teaching, and learning, we have powerful ideas and concrete strategies for helping interventionists help their social learners see and understand the social world and develop lifelong strategies for meeting their social goals.

Core Practical Treatment Frameworks: Set 1 contains 13 of our most popular and helpful core tools with two types of frameworks.

Seven conceptual frameworks provide information specifically for interventionists (parents, caregivers, or professionals) to help them explore the social emotional assessment and treatment needs of individuals. These can be used during student study team meetings, IEP meetings, and to guide interventionists’ exploration of individuals’ social emotional development and treatment needs during the assessment process.

7 Conceptual Frameworks for Interventionists

• 13 Aspects of Social Learning
• The ILAUGH Model of Social Cognition
• Social Thinking–Social Learning Tree
• Social Thinking–Social Competency Model
• Social Thinking Connected Frameworks
• Building Blocks for Social Development of Young Children
• Group Collaboration, Play and Problem Solving Scale (GPS) for Early Learners

Six treatment frameworks help interventionists get started teaching core social emotional concepts directly to social learners: exploring emotions, size of the problem, and situation-based social expectations.

• Core Social Thinking Vocabulary
• Basic Feelings & Emotions Scale
• Size of the Problem and Size of the Reaction Thermometer
• Social Emotional Chain Reaction
• Social Behavior Map–General Observation (SBM–GO)
• Social Behavior Map–GO “Lining Up to Leave the Classroom” (Filled-in Template)

What’s a Framework? Each teaching framework provides a kind of blueprint related to one specific aspect within the social world that illustrates the abstract social concept through a step-by-step, visual means. This collection includes a broad array of frameworks that range from assessing learners’ needs to breaking down social concepts, such as social communication, friendship, anxiety management, being with others, and many more to make the abstract concepts more concrete for social emotional learning.

When Do I Use These Frameworks? Use these two-sided visual teaching tools at home, in a clinic, or at school in one-on-one settings, in small groups, or for display in classrooms for larger discussions.

A Breakdown of What’s Inside Each Practical Teaching Framework In a portable, 8.5” x 11” format, these 13 practical, treatment framework mini-posters describe, in both words and graphics, a variety of social concepts which either help the interventionist better understand the social emotional learning abilities of a specific student, or the framework provides information which broadens the student’s blueprint for understanding how the social world works.

Each framework has a graphic front and narrative back side. The front side provides a visual framework for use in team meetings with fellow interventionists or for use with students. The back side details the purpose of the framework along with:

• Instructions for using treatment frameworks (for assessment or directly with social learners)
• Recommendations for age ranges that might benefit from the content
• Examples of how the information can guide teaching to foster development of social competencies
• Recommendations for free Social Thinking articles or webinars to expand knowledge about a particular framework
• Recommendations for related products (books, on-demand courses, and livestream events and conferences)
• Connections to other treatment frameworks within the two-set collection

Interventionist Ribbon. Set 1 includes a blend of Interventionist and Social Learner frameworks. The Interventionist frameworks include a green ribbon on the graphic side to differentiate between the two categories.

Ages: 4 – adult