![]() ![]() When should you use the Superflex Curriculum: Teachers, parents and therapists should only use Superflex after the core concepts introduced in the book You Are A Social Detective (a different product) are thoroughly taught to the student.Superflex Takes on Rock Brain and the Team of Unthinkables, a 21-page comic book which introduces the basic Unthinkable characters through which we teach the curriculum.All handouts and relevant teaching materials are included in the book.The Superflex Curriculum: 106 page book to guide adults in teaching the core concepts.The Superflex Curriculum Package Includes The three-part cognitive behavioral curriculum helps students develop further awareness of their own thinking and social behaviors and learn strategies to help them develop better self-regulation across a range of behaviors. I love the idea so much that I will probably start doing it in my in person sessions as well.Superflex®: A Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum provides educators, parents and therapists fun and motivating ways to teach students with social and communication difficulties (undiagnosed or diagnosed, such as Asperger’s syndrome, ADHD, high-functioning autism or similar). ![]() This will leave your child with a mini booklet for each Unthinkable on his/her team. Step 7: Save as a PDF and email the document to parents Add a thought bubble and speech bubble to the child’s face with the superflex strategy Step 6: Add each Superflex strategy to a new slide in PowerPoint with a picture of the child’s flexible face. Step 5: Take a picture of the child acting flexible, e.g., with a smile on his/her face Step 4: On the next slide, add a picture of Superflex with a speech bubble telling the child to use his/her Superflex strategies Step 3: Add the picture to PowerPoint with a thought bubble and speech bubble for the particular situation, e.g., speech bubble that says, “NO, I WON’T PUT IT AWAY” and thought bubble with a picture of Glassman Step 2: With consent from parent and child, take a picture of the child acting out the situation, e.g., crossed arms and angry face if working on Glassman Step 1: Have the child identify a time when this particular Unthinkable entered their brains, e.g., “Glassman entered my brain when my mom asked me to put my tablet away and I screamed/cried” After creating the team, my next step has always been to go through the “Superflex Strategies” for each Unthinkable on the child’s “Unthinkables team.” In teletherapy, I have come up with a new idea and this is how we learn to defeat the team of Unthinkables over teletherapy! Here is what I do: ![]() However, this shift was quite beneficial when it came to creating my clients’ teams of Unthinkables. This allows me to see a child’s self-awareness, especially when I have my own idea of which Unthinkables are on their team!Īs we all know, having to shift to virtual therapy came with a lot of challenges. This is the team of Unthinkables that comes into their brain the most frequently. When I use this excellent resource with children, I have them use a handout (Handout, Lesson #6) from Superflex: A Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum to make their own Unthinkables team. Glassman™ – Makes us have huge upset reactions to tiny problemsĮnergy Hare-Y™ – Gives us too much energy at unexpected times Rock Brain™ – Gets us stuck on what we want to do so that we can’t be flexible thinkers Unthinkables are the characters that sometimes come into our heads and make us behave in unexpected ways. Superflex is a superhero that teaches children how to defeat their team of Unthinkables™. If you use the Social Thinking™ curriculum by Michelle Garcia Winner then you should know about Superflex™. ![]()
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