Teaching Beyond the Think Social! Curriculum: Addressing Preschool, Anxiety, Superflex and Emerging Perspective Takers

May 14, 2008
with Michelle Garcia Winner, CCC-SLP

Course Outline

Her second book Journeys Through ADDulthood (2002), for men and women as well as mental health professionals, identifies the long term passages that adults with the differences of AD/HD need to navigate in order to live a fulfilling life long past the beginning stage of diagnosis and medication.

Solden trains mental health professionals and is a prominent speaker at both national and international conferences as well as a frequent contributor to publications on this subject. She serves on the professional advisory board of ADDA (the National Association For Adults With ADD) and has served on the program conference committee for national CHADD (Children and Adults with ADD). Her areas of specialization include inattentive AD/HD, women's issues, as well as long term counseling issues for men and women not diagnosed until adulthood.

Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to:

1. Create 2 lessons for helping students to work with "emerging perspective takers".

2. Describe 2 lessons related to teaching students the social emotional connection.

3. Define the difference between "real fear" and "dragon fear" and create a related lesson plan.

4. Explain three ways in which we teach social thinking to preschoolers through play.

5. Describe the meta-cognitive concept of "Superflex and the Team of Unthinkables" and create a lesson for a student using this paradigm.

Michelle Garcia Winner's Biography

Michelle Garcia Winner is an SLP who specializes in students with social cognitive deficits. She runs a clinic; authored numerous books and speaks internationally. Michelle's goal is to help educators and parents appreciate how social thinking and social skills is an integral part of students academic, vocational and community success. She was honored with a "Congressional Special Recognition Award" in 2008.

For More Information
contact Barbara Freethy Transdisciplinary Workshops, Inc.,
at www.transdis.com - barbara@transdis.net.