Listening with Brain and Body: Zoo Adventure
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Ryan Hendrix, MS, CCC-SLP, is a senior therapist at Social Thinking Stevens Creek in San Jose and a privatetherapist in San Francisco. Her diverse experience includes fostering social competencies in preschool-age children through young adults with social learning differences. Working with a variety of ages and levels allows Ryan to sit on the floor, fly around in a cape and create Superflex tools, then turn around and explore the concept of a clique or break down the hidden rules of hanging out at a coffee shop. In addition to working with individuals and groups, she actively collaborates with caregivers and professionals on ways to support their social learners beyond the clinic setting in their classrooms, communities, and homes. She meets with professionals from all over the world to talk about Social Thinking for Early Learners as part of the Social Thinking clinical training program and is part of the Social Thinking Stevens Creek clinic’s ongoing Caregiver Education Series. She is also a member of the Social Thinking Training and Speakers Collaborative, taking the powerful frameworks, concepts, and strategies of Social Thinking to communities and schools across the country. Ryan is a coauthor of a journal article documenting the effectiveness of using the Social Thinking Vocabulary published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. She is passionate about Social Thinking and enjoys collaborating with students, caregivers, and their teams to help social learners
meet their own goals.
Kari Zweber Palmer, MA, CCC-SLP, first became interested in Social Thinking as a graduate student when she conducted research on Michelle’s informal assessment procedure, the Double Interview. She started her career as a speech language pathologist in the public schools in Minnetonka, MN, working in early childhood and at the elementary level. She then worked as a full time therapist at Michelle Garcia Winner’s Center for Social Thinking in San Jose, CA. Currently Kari owns a private practice, Changing Perspectives, in Excelsior, MN. Her diverse caseload includes preschool-aged children to young adults, all with varying levels of social cognitive differences. Kari is a peer reviewer for ASHA’s continuing education program. She is also a Social Thinking consultant at multiple school districts around the country. She enjoys collaborating with dedicated educators (early childhood through high school) on implementing social cognitive teaching into the school day. Kari is an active presenter as part of the Social Thinking Training and Speakers Collaborative and enjoys sharing the power of Social Thinking with international audiences.
Nancy Tarshis, MA, MS, CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist who is deeply experienced in a wide variety of treatment methodologies, including Social Thinking. She is the Director of Early Elementary Programming at The QUAD Preparatory School, which is dedicated to twice exceptional children, grades K-12. For 27 years, she was a member of the professional team at the Children’s Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center (CERC) at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, serving as Supervisor of Speech and Language Services for 21 of them. As a member of the Social Thinking Training and Speakers Collaborative, Nancy speaks frequently across the U.S. on Social Thinking concepts and strategies and about the development and importance of play. She is a regular consultant to several schools nationally and internationally. Her independent clinical work includes Altogether Social, a Social Thinking-based practice she cofounded serving clients age 14 months through 36 years. Altogether Social provides individual and group sessions, consultations to public and private schools, and trainings for parents and professionals.
Michelle Garcia Winner, MA, CCC-SLP, is the founder of Social Thinking. She is a speech-language pathologist who specializes in the treatment of students with social cognitive differences at the Social Thinking Center, her clinic in San Jose, California. She coined the term “Social Thinking” in the mid-1990s and continues to evolve the Social Thinking framework that today includes information, vocabulary, curriculum, and strategies that help children and adults around the world become better social thinkers. The heart of Michelle’s work is illuminating the often elusive and intangible world of Social Thinking, and developing practical strategies that can be easily used by parents, educators, and service providers across different environments. Her approach led GreatSchools.org, a leading national nonprofit organization, to call Michelle, “. . . the leading expert in the field of social skills.” In 2008, she was awarded a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition for developing this treatment approach. Michelle is internationally recognized as a thoughtful and prolific writer, having authored or co-authored more than 25 books on Social Thinking. She travels internationally speaking on a multitude of topics relating to social learning, and repeatedly receives accolades for her educational, energetic, and enthusiastic presentations. Stephen Borgman at Psychology Today called her “. . . one of my favorite authors in the field of teaching emotional intelligence.” Michelle appears as a clinician to Owen Suskind in the 2016 documentary Life, Animated.
