Carol Gray combines stick-figures with “conversation symbols” to illustrate what people say and think during conversations. Showing what people are thinking reinforces that others have independent thoughts—a concept spectrum children don’t intuitively understand. Children can also recognize that, although people say one thing, they may think something quite different—another concept foreign to “concrete-thinking” children. Children can draw their own “comic strips” to show what they are thinking and feeling about events or people. Different colors can represent different states of mind. These deceptively simple “comic strips” can reveal as well as convey quite a lot of substantive information.

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One of the major areas of difficulty for students with autism spectrum disorders is the development of social and communication skills. While most educational strategies focus on developing the student's expressive communication, comparatively little attention is directed toward increasing the student's ability to understand the communication in his life. This bestseller is full of easy-to-use techniques and strategies that will help students with autism, ADHD, cognitive impairments, and learning disabilities significantly improve their ability to understand the social world, express themselves, participate in home and school routines, and improve overall behavior.

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