Thinking About You Thinking About Me: Philosophy and strategies to further develop perspective taking and communicative abilities for persons with Asperger Syndrome, High Functioning Autism, Hyperlexia, ADHD, PDD-NOS, NVLD

by Michelle Garcia Winner

The Thinking about YOU Thinking about ME book explores the critical nature of perspective taking (Theory of Mind) in our day-to-day interactions and its importance in the classroom setting. It describes how the perspective taking process works and offers a myriad of therapeutic activities for teachers/therapists to utilize with children and adults. Michelle Garcia Winner explains how professionals can use informal measures (since no standardized measures are available) to assess the abstract skill and to determine which students will benefit from this type of treatment. Included are strategies that help students understand their own treatment programs (IEPs) and behavior plans. The book covers contents presented in her workshops, "Nuts and Bolts of Starting Social Thinking Programs", and " Thinking about YOU Thinking about ME".

Genres: Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Nonfiction, Psychology, Parenting, Adhd, Education, Teaching

207 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2002

About the author

Michelle Garcia Winner, MA, CCC-SLP, is the founder of Social Thinking and a globally recognized thought leader, author, speaker, and social-cognitive therapist. She is dedicated to helping people of all ages develop social-emotional learning, including those with social competency challenges. Across her 30+ year career she has created numerous evidence-based strategies, treatment frameworks, and curricula to help interventionists foster social competencies in those they support. Michelle's work also teaches how these competencies impact a person's broader life, including their ability to maintain relationships and their success in school and career. She continually retools her methods based on the latest research and inspiration from the clients she sees in her San Francisco Bay Area clinic.

Reviews

[Anne]

This book was written for clinicians who teach social thinking (or pragmatic speech) to children and adults. As a layman though, I got a lot out of it. The big picture is that in order to communicate effectively, the speaker needs to be able to take in the other person's perspective. This is something that is an organic development for most children, but can be challenging for people with Aspbergers, NLD, autism, etc. Just describing the problem is helpful, but Winner also provides practical suggestions on how to build perspective taking skills, how to read non-verbal cues, and the hidden rules of conversation.

[Sorrowka]

Thinking About You, Thinking About Me is obviously an intriguing title. Mostly it's suitable as a reference book (in my opinion; also I saw this book cited in other books). It defined ground theory of which aspects plays important roles in predicting other's mind and modify our behavior. Furthermore, the author showed some handouts and examples of the children.

[Cathy Campbell]

Great resource on helping children and adults understand how their behavior impacts others and some strategys for effecting these behaviors. This information was new to me. I wish I would have known it years ago.

[Melissa]

Excellent...real life situations as we see them, not as we philosophically are supposed to see them.

[Abdullahi]

not yet read but the title more likely

[Christine]

This book was so helpful to me as a parent and layperson. It's full of practical advice about how to help children improve their perspective-taking abilities. Highly recommend!

[Zzz]

I liked this book. for social thinking.

[Aimee]

A great resource for anyone who works with individuals with social cognitive learning challenges! This book focuses on the skill of perspective taking.

[Briana]

“Theory of Mind” Practical useable strategies; some for groups, some for individual

[Kayla]

For a class!

[Briana]

This book was very much written for clinicians, so a little disappointing as a teacher that things were not more simply laid out. But, Winner has other great resources for teachers that I am excited to explore.

[Linda]

A great resource for professionals and laypeople alike.