Michelle Garcia Winner, MA, CCC is a speech language pathologist who specializes in the treatment of students with social cognitive deficits, which includes 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, consults with families and schools and she travels internationally giving workshops; she presents 6 different workshop days. Michelle has written six books which are published through Think Social Publishing, inc. She also collaborates with the Gray Center to produce 4 DVD’s of conference presentations. Michelle’s goal is to help educators and parents appreciate how social thinking and social skills is an integral part of student’s academic as well as social experiences and that we can all do far more to help our students learn these abstract lessons.