A Week of Switching, Shifting, and Stretching: How to Make My Thinking More Flexible

Many children, whether diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder or not, struggle greatly with flexible thinking. This inability to think flexibly can lead to rages, temper tantrums, increased anxiety, depression and greater social challenges. Many children have black and white thinking and they forget that there are areas of gray. These areas of gray are compromises that might work just as well as their original idea. A Week of Switching, Shifting and Stretching my Thoughts: How to Make my Thinking More Flexible so I Can Have Fun is a picture book designed to assist children on the autism spectrum, and any child for that matter, with examining their own black and white thinking in order to begin to think more flexibly and enjoy rainbow thinking. The more rainbow thinking a child experiences, the more a child may be able to cope with a variety of life's situations.