Our Clinic
Social Thinking® Boston, founded by Nancy Clements, is one of two fully endorsed and licensed clinics through Michelle Garcia Winner and Social Thinking®.
Social Thinking Clinics use the treatment framework and curriculum developed by Michelle Garcia Winner to teach the thinking that underlies social competencies. We use unique tools to break down complex social concepts (like perspective taking) into understandable and doable parts that can be applied in any setting. Our goal is to help clients learn explicitly how to engage in social information processing; how to attend, interpret, problem solve and respond in any situation—the thinking and doing skills that will aid them in becoming increasingly successful in the social world throughout their lives.
We explore the Social Thinking and a client’s related social skills and also help to connect the dots on how the social mind impacts social academic tasks. Our clinicians seek to teach clients how to socially problem solve rather than memorize because the social experience requires us to adapt our social behavior based on the situation and social situations constantly change!
Who We Serve
The Social Thinking Methodology is designed to help individuals in preschool through adulthood with solid language and learning abilities. In our treatment model, we do not treat diagnostic labels, we treat the individual. Although not all of our clients have a diagnosis, some of the many labels that have benefitted from our services include ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorders- Levels 1 and 2, High Functioning Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, learning disabilities, sensory dysregulation, executive dysfunction, twice-exceptional, gifted and talented, social anxiety, socially phobic, expressive-receptive language issues, specific language impairment, traumatic brain injury, Tourette’s Syndrome, PDD-NOS, Dysgraphia, and others.