Help students strengthen their situational awareness and social understanding with this S.T.O.P. & Read the Room™ lesson.  This lesson helps students build cognitive flexibility by teaching them to recognize how the same activity can look different across settings, times, people, and materials. Using the S.T.O.P. framework, learners compare multiple versions of a familiar situation and practice noticing how Space, Time, Objects, and People shift from one scene to another. By zooming in on these differences, students strengthen their ability to anticipate expectations, adjust their behavior, and understand context—key components of situational awareness and flexible thinking.Through structured practice, students build the executive function skills that support self-regulation, flexible thinking, and independent decision-making—whether they are in the classroom, at home, or out in the community.
 
A practical, engaging tool for teachers, therapists, and parents who want to help learners “read the room” with greater insight and confidence.