Social Thinking Collaborative Speaker Kari Zweber Palmer, (M.A., CCC-SLP co-author of We Thinkers), explains an activity that teaches kids to figure out the “expected” and “unexpected” behaviors in different contexts in their day. The goal is to help students learn to observe social situations more carefully and to understand that their behavior affects the emotions of others, and how others feel affects how they treat our students in return. Why do we use the Expected-Unexpected Social Thinking