Michelle Garcia Winner, MA, CCC is a speech language pathologist

specializing in the treatment of students with social cognitive deficits,

including diagnoses such as Autism, Asperger Syndrome and non-verbal learning disorder. She has a private practice in San Jose, California

where she works with clients and consults with families and schools.

She also travels internationally giving workshops. Michelle has written

four books, created social thinking posters for the classroom, and produced Social Thinking Across the Home and School Day (DVD/VHS, The

Gray Center, 2003). Michelle’s goal is to help educators and parents

appreciate how social thinking and social skills are an integral part of students’

academic and social experiences, and enable them to help students learn these

abstract lessons.

Michelle Garcia Winner, MA, CCC is a speech language pathologist specializing in the treatment of students with social cognitive deficits, including diagnoses such as Autism, Asperger Syndrome and non-verbal learning disorder. She has a private practice in San Jose, California where she works with clients and consults with families and schools. She also travels internationally giving workshops. Michelle has written several books, created social thinking posters for the classroom, and produced Social Thinking Across the Home and School Day, Strategies for Organization, Growing Up Social, and Social Behavior Mapping. Michelle’s goal is to help educators and parents appreciate how social thinking and social skills are an integral part of students’ academic and social experiences, and enable them to help students learn these abstract lessons.