This is from a great blog on autism issues and parenting: http://bit.ly/acSOee

"Michelle Garcia Winner first began teaching social thinking in 1995 when she worked as a speech-language pathologist for a high school district. Soon after, she went into private practice as parents and school districts asked her to work with a growing number of students.

Her clinical services evolved rapidly. She hired and trained a number of professionals in the art and science of teaching social thinking, and created Think Social Publishing to meet the demand for national and international presentations, workshops and her own social thinking books and curriculum materials."