Neurodivergent Affirming Problem Solving and Reasoning Activities
This reasoning and problem solving social skills unit is perfect for middle schoolers, high schoolers, and college students. It is designed for a variety of social language and critical thinking skills and is great for SLPs, special education teachers, behavior therapists, and school counselors. This unit is neurodivergent affirming—students will improve their self-awareness and metalinguistic awareness in areas related to reasoning, problem solving, and thinking critically. Executive functioning skills are naturally embedded into these metacognitive and metalinguistic activities.
This reasoning and problem solving social skills unit is perfect for middle schoolers, high schoolers, and college students. It is designed for a variety of social language and critical thinking skills and is great for SLPs, special education teachers, behavior therapists, and school counselors. This unit is neurodivergent affirming—students will improve their self-awareness and metalinguistic awareness in areas related to reasoning, problem solving, and thinking critically. Executive functioning skills are naturally embedded into these metacognitive and metalinguistic activities.
This reasoning and problem solving social skills unit is perfect for middle schoolers, high schoolers, and college students. It is designed for a variety of social language and critical thinking skills and is great for SLPs, special education teachers, behavior therapists, and school counselors. This unit is neurodivergent affirming—students will improve their self-awareness and metalinguistic awareness in areas related to reasoning, problem solving, and thinking critically. Executive functioning skills are naturally embedded into these metacognitive and metalinguistic activities.
What will you get?
This unit covers...
✨ identifying a variety of perspectives
✨ recognizing the positive and negative outcomes of reactions and solutions
✨ determining a variety of perspectives related to the degree of a problem and how that impacts our choices
✨ generating multiple solutions to the same problem
✨ a step-by-step process for problem solving
Each topic is targeted using sorting/matching cards and situation analysis. These activities will help increase awareness of these linguistic, pragmatic, and critical thinking skills and encourage them to perspective take and think critically about scenarios and problems. These activities are not designed to teach students to mask or to only find the "right" answers. Rather, they are designed to get students thinking! Use the activities as a jumping point for encouraging critical thinking and discussion with your students!
Additionally, you'll receive 30 task cards covering a variety of problem solving skills.
Who can use it?
✨ SLPs (It was designed especially for them!)
✨ Special education teachers
✨ ESL teachers working on social skills
✨ School counselors
✨ Behavior specialists/therapists
✨ Classroom teachers providing remediation
Who will it help?
✨ Students who struggle solve social problems at school or home
✨ Students who struggle with executive functioning skills
✨ Students who struggle to understand multiple perspectives
✨ Students with language impairments
✨ Students with reading disorders
✨ Students with specific learning disabilities
✨ Students with ADD/ADHD
✨ Students with Autism
✨ Students learning English as a second language
✨ Students in approximately 6th-12th grade
Why will you love it?
✨ Low prep!
Sorting and task cards are print, cut, and go! Can be printed on cardstock or laminated to reuse again and again.
Everything else is print and go!
Sorting cards are also provided as Boom Decks for a no prep option!
✨ All black and white ink
✨ No fluff—streamlined and efficient
✨ Designed for older students
How will it help you?
Working with older students on social skills can be difficult at times. Convincing students with pragmatic deficits to role-play can be challenging and monitoring spontaneous conversations can be difficult. Not to mention, role-playing social skills can be damaging to neurodivergent students as it teaches them to mask their natural communication styles. This activity set was developed to help students understand and analyze a variety of linguistic and reasoning skills that help us solve everyday problems, big and small.
What should you look at before you buy?
Check out the thumbnails and preview to get a good idea of what this product includes! You can also check out my blog post about this topic and product here.