Full Retirement Now Looms for Joanne and Herb Hein
Due to Having Lost Our Office During the Pandemic.
After 34 years of having a dynamic office for evaluating and treating clients, we at Hein Speech-Language Pathology had to vacate that office in 2021 due to the Covid pandemic. We donated our tests and much of our treatment material to colleagues and the local speech-language pathology university program so others could still benefit from those items. We then transitioned to only providing consultation and treatment through tele-practice from our home. Now, in 2025, we find ourselves mostly retired from providing direct speech-language pathology services. However, we continue to share our ideas through blogs and our treatment materials and music through our website shop.
Contact us if you have any questions.
Due to Having Lost Our Office During the Pandemic.
After 34 years of having a dynamic office for evaluating and treating clients, we at Hein Speech-Language Pathology had to vacate that office in 2021 due to the Covid pandemic. We donated our tests and much of our treatment material to colleagues and the local speech-language pathology university program so others could still benefit from those items. We then transitioned to only providing consultation and treatment through tele-practice from our home. Now, in 2025, we find ourselves mostly retired from providing direct speech-language pathology services. However, we continue to share our ideas through blogs and our treatment materials and music through our website shop.
Contact us if you have any questions.
-Growing G.R.E.E.N. InterActions-a Social Literacy Program written and developed by Herb Hein, MMSc, CCC-SLP
- Lessons, strategies and related worksheets for Social-Emotional Learning
to help us Think First to make better choices when interacting with other people on our Home, School, Friendship and Work Teams.
Let's learn to make choices that are civil and G.R.E.E.N. :
Grateful, Respectful, Empathetic, Easygoing and Navigating!
Let's learn to use strategies so we can stay calm to survey and navigate our social situations, think our best Guiding G.R.E.E.N. Thoughts, use our grateful, respectful, empathetic, cooperative (easygoing) words, and make our best positive choices to reach our Personal and Common Team Goals!
WE CONTINUE TO OFFER 70% DISCOUNT ON PDFs OF OUR GROWING G.R.E.E.N. INTERACTIONS BOOKS TO MAKE THEM MORE ACCESSIBLE AND AFFORDABLE DURING THIS CHALLENGING TIME PERIOD WHEN IT IS CRITICAL TO LEARN TO ACT CIVIL IN OUR CIVILIZATION!
PURCHASE, DOWNLOAD AND PRINT THE PAGES YOU WANT TO USE!
66 page instructor's manual-The Guides Guide- only $15
450 page illustrated InterActive Lesson Book-only $45
48 pages of visual strategies-Wise Action Tools- only $15
Select lesson book chapters are also available for $1, $2 or for free!
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At this critical time in our nation, our goal is to help you to guide others in improving communication and cooperation for the common good by making these engaging lessons and strategies readily available and affordable.
SLPs, mental health professionals and teachers are using Growing G.R.E.E.N. InterActions PDFs to teach students the positive consequences of communicating and cooperating in a kind, respectful, empathetic, navigating, civil, G.R.E.E.N. manner with others on their Home, Classroom, and Friendship Teams. Together we can work to be "our better selves in a better world"! |
Instantly order FREE PDF DOWNLOADS from the InterActive Lesson Book of Chapter 1 (Introduction) and Chapter 2 (What Makes Our Civilization Work?) at this website's shop. Use the initial lessons for guiding others in making better choices in their social interactions. Find some of our other chapters in PDF form for only $1 or $2 each! The entire 32-chapter InterActive Lesson Book, containing all the lessons, worksheets, G.R.E.E.N. Scenes, glossary and musical transcriptions can be downloaded as a PDF for only $45.
Joanne and I used the PDFs of our Growing G.R.E.E.N. InterActions Social Literacy Program to assist families in further defining and strengthening their Home Teams, by taking the time to set Common Team Goals, establish Team Rules, and supporting each other in setting and meeting Personal Goals.
My hope is that more families can connect and actually grow stronger by reviewing and using lessons together, being guided to make their best choices, acting kind, civil and G.R.E.E.N. with each other. I also hope these lessons and materials can assist students make their best choices in their classrooms, interacting with others again in person. Contact me for any additional information you may need for using these lessons and materials.-Herb Hein [email protected]
My hope is that more families can connect and actually grow stronger by reviewing and using lessons together, being guided to make their best choices, acting kind, civil and G.R.E.E.N. with each other. I also hope these lessons and materials can assist students make their best choices in their classrooms, interacting with others again in person. Contact me for any additional information you may need for using these lessons and materials.-Herb Hein [email protected]
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Growing G.R.E.E.N. InterActions is a complete program developed by Herb Hein for teaching social communication skills. Through lessons, visual strategies, music and hands-on exercises, participants learn to identify positive vs. negative behaviors and work towards Personal and Common Team Goals. It includes a Lesson Book, an instructor's Guide, a book of visual strategies, a music CD and a Toolbox stocked with manipulative items to engage and reinforce the learner.
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Herb Hein, talks about the creation and the purpose of the social language program he developed called Growing G.R.E.E.N. InterActions Social Literacy Program. The program provides explicit instruction to guide individuals to become more aware of others in their home, school and work scenes so they can work together to meet Common Team Goals. Participants learn concepts, thoughts and scripts that help them act prosocial and G.R.E.E.N.: Grateful, Respectful, Empathetic, Easygoing and Navigating. The program is available at this website store.
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High Praise for the Growing G.R.E.E.N. InterActions Social Literacy Program from Maryellen Rooney Moreau, the founder of MindWing Concepts and developer of the Story Grammar Marker®
Maryellen Rooney Moreau is well known by many school-based speech-language pathologists for having developed very useful methodology and materials that help students break down narratives into their component parts so they could be understood. With Maryellen’s approaches such as the Story Grammar Marker®, students also effectively learn the language involved in summarizing these narratives. They also learn to develop critical thinking, using tools such as the Critical Thinking Triangle® to gain more awareness about how people are feeling, what they are thinking and what they are planning. In her recent blog, called Maryellen’s Musings, she shared how her own methodologies related to two articles and a program that she found in her research about trauma-informed programs and trauma-sensitive approaches. I was honored to find that my Growing G.R.E.E.N. InterActions Social Literacy Program was a program she found to be useful as a trauma-informed program and a trauma-sensitive approach. read more...
A Young Man with Autism learns to Stay Calm and Accept Plan B
This past year, I provided weekly treatment with a small group of students in a Transition Class in a San Diego County high school district. These 18-19-year-old students were involved in vocational training and learning independent living skills. I used lessons, strategies and activities from my Growing G.R.E.E.N. InterActions Social Literacy Program to help the class improve their social skills so they could become successful, active participants within their community. I presented explicit instruction so they could understand that their actions affected others around them, the others they could consider being on the same Team with them. The students were guided to generate Common Team Goals and Team Rules collaboratively so they all could feel like they had some "ownership" in the ideas the group chose. With these Team goals and rules spelled out, it would be clear what kind of behavior was expected and what could be achieved if they all worked together, and thought about how well they were interacting. Read more...
Parents and Professionals Enjoy Learning at Herb Hein's Presentation about his Growing G.R.E.E.N. InterActions Program
We were pleased with the mid-summer turn-out at Herb Hein's presentation of strategies he has developed for improving social behavior. Professionals and parents learned about the Growing G.R.E.E.N. InterActions Social Literacy Program and how it gets individuals to use language to guide their thoughts and actions, engage in self-control, methodically analyze social situations, set goals and make positive interaction choices with others on their Teams. Mark Wilson, MOT, OTR/L, and Sharon Criger, DPT of FITS (Functional Integrated Therapeutic Services) and their staff were wonderful hosts, providing refreshments and a comfortable space in one of their OT/PT gyms. The participants appreciated the extensive handout that.... Read more....
We were pleased with the mid-summer turn-out at Herb Hein's presentation of strategies he has developed for improving social behavior. Professionals and parents learned about the Growing G.R.E.E.N. InterActions Social Literacy Program and how it gets individuals to use language to guide their thoughts and actions, engage in self-control, methodically analyze social situations, set goals and make positive interaction choices with others on their Teams. Mark Wilson, MOT, OTR/L, and Sharon Criger, DPT of FITS (Functional Integrated Therapeutic Services) and their staff were wonderful hosts, providing refreshments and a comfortable space in one of their OT/PT gyms. The participants appreciated the extensive handout that.... Read more....
Our social emotional learning program, Growing G.R.E.E.N. InterActions, is being integrated into the programming of ClubXcite, a San Diego mentoring and tutoring company for students with academic, social, emotional and behavioral challenges!
Club Xcite provides quality, innovative educational services for schools and families in San Diego County seeking personalized academic, social, emotional and behavioral solutions. Club Xcite loves our newly published social skills curriculum! They will be integrating the key concepts, worksheets and lessons from the Growing G.R.E.E.N. InterActions Social Literacy Program to use with all students in their Mindful Adventures Summer Camp. This specialized camp provides opportunities to learn and apply new social and emotional skills in fun and engaging outings with experienced social and executive functioning coaches. Read more…
Max Charting His Own Social Language Progress
A Social Transformation: Young Man with Autism Overcomes Self-Distraction & Impulsivity to Display Positive Interactions
Through explicit lessons, visual strategies, personally relevant role-playing and goal self-assessment, Max learns he is part of a Team and learns to monitor his attitude and his language to interact in a easygoing, positive manner. In just five months, he progresses from acting in an impulsive, negative manner to controlling himself to think first and choose positive words for interacting with his Team.
This year, I have been providing weekly treatment with a small group of students in a Transition Class in a San Diego County high school district. These 18-19-year-old students are involved in vocational training and learning independent living skills. I used... Read more.
Through explicit lessons, visual strategies, personally relevant role-playing and goal self-assessment, Max learns he is part of a Team and learns to monitor his attitude and his language to interact in a easygoing, positive manner. In just five months, he progresses from acting in an impulsive, negative manner to controlling himself to think first and choose positive words for interacting with his Team.
This year, I have been providing weekly treatment with a small group of students in a Transition Class in a San Diego County high school district. These 18-19-year-old students are involved in vocational training and learning independent living skills. I used... Read more.
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Growing G.R.E.E.N. InterActions Visual Strategies in Action!
Annette shows how the Growing G.R.E.E.N. visual strategies help her engage with the outside world. When people ask me whether I have proof that the Growing G.R.E.E.N. InterActions Social Literacy Program has been effective, I review the variety of positive changes that I have witnessed in the students and clients I've worked with since I started to develop the program in 2011 at the San Diego Center for Children, a school for students with emotional challenges. Read more. |
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Speech-Language Pathology ServicesHein Speech-Language Pathology has been serving San Diego since 1986. We are a small private practice run by husband-and-wife team Herb & Joanne Hein, who both are licensed Speech-Language Pathologists, each with over 40 years of clinical experience.
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The Growing G.R.E.E.N. InterActions ProgramGrowing G.R.E.E.N. InterActions is a comprehensive social literacy program developed by Herb Hein. Through lessons, visual strategies, music and hands-on exercises, participants learn how to evaluate social situations and make better choices in their behaviors.
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Herb Hein Music and PerformancesSinger-songwriter Herb Hein composes and produces original music designed to entertain and inspire. He also performs as part the folk rock duo Jeff and Herb, playing covers and original music with powerful lyrics about love, peace, and overcoming life's challenges.
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TESTIMONIALS FROM SATISFIED CLIENTS AND THEIR PARENTS APPEAR BELOW AND IN THE "ABOUT" SECTION.
“Thank you, Herb, for everything. It has been a long road for the boys, our family and their educational team. You have made a tremendous difference in all our lives. Austin has made huge progress under your Growing G.R.E.E.N. Program this past semester. He has learned ways to control his anger and manage his feelings along with accepting that he cannot be perfect. His communication has improved. Instead of him blurting out in the moment, I see him thinking through the situation before he speaks more and more often . As I said before, I wish we had met you in the start of his high school career as he would have had a better experience. His progress amazes me, and I am thrilled to watch him growing G.R.E.E.N. everyday.
Nicole Parrella, parent of a young man with bi-polar disorder and learning disabilities
Nicole Parrella, parent of a young man with bi-polar disorder and learning disabilities
Hein Speech-Language Pathology
Serving San Diego for over 30 years
