# Specialisterne: leveraging the unique skills of Autistics at competitive market terms **URL:** \ **Category:** Lounge\ **Created:** [May 10, 2011, 7:15am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/specialisterne-leveraging-the-unique-skills-of-autistics-at-competitive-market-terms/50245 "2011-05-10T07:15:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 231
**Author:** ![Visionary7903](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/45deac/32.png) [@Visionary7903](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Visionary7903)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 5:27pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/specialisterne-leveraging-the-unique-skills-of-autistics-at-competitive-market-terms/50245/231 "2012-10-13T17:27:34Z")
The [post from yesterday](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/specialisterne-leveraging-the-unique-skills-of-autistics-at-competitive-market-terms/50245/230) was on ‘Social Behaviour Mapping’, a technique developed by Michelle Garcia Winner. **Garcia Winner believes in an approach** not unlike that I have already mentioned in my posts on [the Eaton Arrowsmith School](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/agricultural-specialisterne-rural-employment-revolution-for-those-with-autism/50615/306) and [the Tools of the Mind curriculum](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/specialisterne-leveraging-the-unique-skills-of-autistics-at-competitive-market-terms/50245/161). This is **focused on creating strong foundations first and foremost in children with special needs** … > [@](#): > > …Treatment plans for children who struggle with social learning often are created by observing and/or assessing a student’s conversational and play weaknesses and then developing plans that attempt to remediate these (skill) challenges. We describe this process as **‘teaching in the leaves.’** However, with regard to social learning, the ability to competently produce advanced or more progressive social thinking and related social skills grows out of a **strong root system and a solid trunk, from which sturdy branches develop that produce healthy leaves** … Here is a link to the **‘Social Learning Tree’** : [http://www.socialthinking.com/images/stories/st\_icons/STreeFinal.jpg](http://www.socialthinking.com/images/stories/st_icons/STreeFinal.jpg) (source: [Social Thinking-Social Learning Tree](http://www.socialthinking.com/what-is-social-thinking/social-thinking-social-learning-tree)) --- _[View the full topic](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/specialisterne-leveraging-the-unique-skills-of-autistics-at-competitive-market-terms/50245)._