You Are a Social Detective! Interactive Software

 A collaborative effort between Social Skill Builder and Michelle Garcia Winner & Pamela Crooke of Social Thinking. This interactive software delivered on a thumb drive teaches school age children to become better social thinkers by putting on their detective hats and deciphering the understanding of expected and unexpected social behaviour. It teaches users how to use their eyes, ears and brain to make smart social guesses and investigating clues to see how others emotions and responses are connected to their own behaviour. This software program, complementing the “You are a Social Detective comic book“, has 6 exciting levels with more than 200 video prompts to break down social situations into functional terms including:

Understanding Others’ Comfortable/Uncomfortable Thoughts Understanding Others’ Expected/Unexpected Behaviors Guessing Others’ Thoughts and Emotions

Making Smart Guesses Using Your Tool Box Items (Eyes, Ears & Brain) Using Social Mapping

Reviews

“Social Skill Builder has done a great job working with us to create this tool,” say Michelle and Pam. “We think our students will be motivated to use it to help them become better equipped to evaluate social situations, while also helping them to learn our evidence-based Social Thinking® Vocabulary.

“This product explores the Social Thinking teaching concepts discussed in our book, You Are a Social Detective. A key aspect of helping students improve their competencies and therefore their social skills, involves teaching our students to take more active notice of relevant social cues generated by participants in context. To foster this learning, students enjoy watching video clips to help them more finely tune their observational skills while learning in a game-based format. We hope your students enjoy its use!”

Elementary school speech pathologist Karen Vinson says, “The Social Detective software, with its engaging videos, is a perfect complement to the Social Thinking curriculum I currently use with my students. This product has helped my students with ASD develop a deeper understanding of social relations and the ability to decode social interactions.”

Software Features

The software features a fun mystery-themed jingle and uses a footprint, magnifying glass and clues theme throughout. As with all Social Skill Builder learning software, automatic data collection and a built-in game feature rewarding correct answers adds to the motivation.

It teaches users how to use their eyes, ears and brain to make smart social guesses and investigating clues to see how others emotions and responses are connected to their own behaviour. This software program, has 6 exciting levels with more than 200 video prompts to break down social situations into functional terms including:

• Understanding Others’ Comfortable/Uncomfortable Thoughts
• Understanding Others’ Expected/Unexpected Behaviours
• Guessing Others’ Thoughts and Emotions
• Making Smart Guesses
• Using Your Tool Box Items (Eyes, Ears & Brain)
• Using Social Mapping

View Demo

Viewing the demo below should give you a basic understanding of how the “You Are a Social Detective” software learning tool works.

Click to launch the sample viewer

• For: Parents and professionals
• Ages: 7-12 years
  
• Published: 2011
• Publishers: Social Skill Builders and Think Social Publishing
• Format: Software loaded on a Thumb Drive
• Item: 9780981958507
• ISBN: n/a