Do you ever think about thinking? Most of us don't, unless we've gotten ourselves in a predicament and want to figure out what went wrong. Then we replay in our minds our thoughts and feelings and those of our partner(s) to see where we got off track. It's nebulous territory - and often confusing!
Imagine how difficult this can be for the child with autism, who struggles with social understanding. How do we start teaching them the social thinking that is behind every social action?
One way is by reading social thinking "guru" Michelle Garcia Winner's regular column in the Autism Asperger's Digest. Michelle has an uncanny knack of dissecting social thinking into understandable pieces and creating effective teaching strategies. It's one column not to be missed!
Autism Asperger's Digest: real life information for meeting the real life challenges of ASD.