Is based on Michelle Garcia’s Social Thinking curriculum. It helps students think about others and understand how their behaviours affect other people’s reactions, which in turn affects how they feel about themselves.

The children are taught strategies to process social information and learning is enhanced through experiential exercises in a small group setting.

Individual strengths and weaknesses are considered at the same time in the selection of strategies so as to best facilitate the child’s ability to interact successfully with others.

A social problem solving strategy to help students learn to control their emotional reactions, organise cognitions and produce behaviours to achieve socially acceptable outcomes.

It teaches them to look and listen instead of reacting immediately to problems and conflicts and encourages them to consider solutions and evaluate consequences so as to choose the best action to take.

A social thinking curriculum developed by Michelle Garcia Winner’s Center for Social Thinking Inc. It offers a fun forum for students to explore social thinking by using cartoon characters to depict socially appropriate and inappropriate behaviours.

Children with social cognitive deficits learn about their social environment through the use of explicit and concrete language that can be easily understood by children of all ages. It is suitable for students from grade K to 5.

Involves the identification of the purpose or function of challenging behaviours. Through training, the students learn to replace challenging behaviours with socially appropriate behaviours.

Techniques are used to engage the whole family as a unit and involve key family members in positive social interactions to facilitate therapeutic changes.

Such as clay and sand play uses imagination and the process of creative expression to help students heal. It is particularly suitable for young children or those who have difficulty verbalising their emotions.

Helps students to learn to take control of how they interpret and deal with factors in the environment that reinforces their beliefs and causes negative thoughts. It involves the identification of problematic beliefs before learning and practicing new skills in real world situations.

This was founded on the work of Dr William Glasser and Choice Theory. Choice theory explains how and why we behave in a certain way and is taught as part of the therapeutic process. Students discover what they want and how they can get it, learn to make better choices, take responsibility for their own behaviour and develop satisfying relationships.

Helps students to discover their own strengths and resources so that they can identify solutions to overcome difficulties. It focuses on each student’s competencies and abilities to empower them and build up the steps to successful behavioural change.