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Superflex ... A Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum Paperback – January 1, 2008

by Stephanie Madrigal (Author), Michelle Garcia Winner (Author), Kelly Knopp (Illustrator)

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A Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum provides educators, parents and therapists fun and motivating ways to teach students with Asperger Syndrome, high-functioning autism, ADHD and other diagnosed and undiagnosed social difficulties how to build social thinking skills. Superflex combines a curriculum and a comic book to create a curriculum that develops in each student's brain their own superheroic thinking processes that can overcome the challenges in different social situations that arrive across the school and home day. The curriculum works best with elementary school children (grades K-5) as well as with immature older students who respond to visual books. Prerequisite books to make this tool most effective include Thinking About You Thinking About Me and You Are A Social Detective. The Superflex curriculum offers clear lesson plans to help educators, SLPs, other therapists and parents create a personalized Superflex Superhero Training Academy for their students. The students learn how each of them have Superflexible capacities in their brains that can overcome a Team of Unthinkables, such as Rock Brain, Topic Twister Meister and Mean Jean. And many parents and educators have found success allowing students to expand this team to address specific challenges. The curriculum comes with a colorful 21-page storybook, Superflex Takes on Rock Brain and the Team of Unthinkables. This book tells the story of how Superflex came to be. The children will enter Superflex's town, Social Town, and learn about the cast of Unthinkables who are trying to overtake and rid the town of Superflex forever. Superflex and his sidekick dog, Bark, go on their first mission to try to save the citizens of Social Town. The curriculum package includes the Superflex curriculum and the storybook to be read and shown to students.

Print length

127 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Think Social
Publication date

January 1, 2008
Dimensions

8.5 x 0.5 x 11 inches
ISBN-10

0979292247
ISBN-13

978-0979292248
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Think Social; 1st edition (January 1, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 127 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0979292247
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0979292248
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.5 x 11 inches

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Michelle Garcia Winner, MA, CCC-SLP, is the founder and CEO of Social Thinking and a globally recognized thought leader, author, speaker, and social-cognitive therapist. She is dedicated to helping people of all ages develop social emotional learning, including those with social learning differences. Across her 35+ year career she has created numerous evidence-based strategies, treatment frameworks, and curricula to help interventionists develop social competencies in those they support. Michelle's work also teaches how social competencies impact people's broader lives, including their ability to foster relationships and their academic and career performance. She and her team continually update the Social Thinking® Methodology based on the latest research and insights they learn from their clients. She was honored to receive a Congressional Special Recognition Award in 2008, and a Lectureship Award (2019) from the Society of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatricians.

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F. Feickert

I'm "Just a mom", but I use this every summer with all my kids! WORTH EVERY PENNY!

Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2014

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Every summer, my kids are so excited to repeat this program! I have 1 child officially diagnosed (autism level 1) and others with sensory, social, and other needs/issues. This book helps them become more aware of their triggers and to take personal control of finding a solution to problem situations. As a Christian, I can also always find a way to incorporate the gospel of Christ into each lesson, because someone who is truly socially aware is also treating others how they would like to be treated and following the golden rule. My autistic son's school also used this book with their social group, and so they appreciate that my son already has the vocabulary from this book. They can point out that he's having a brain eater moment, or glass man moment, and he can pull back from the situation (with their help) and better tackle the issue.
Cons: Price is up there, especially for home use, but I still think it is quite worth it and a valuable resource. Also, my kids would REALLY love it if they had more stories like the cartoon book on the origin of Superflex, but we'll take what we can get!

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Sarah Hart

Great for teaching social skills!

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2016

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I work with children with autism, and I have taught a social skills group using a slightly modified version of this curriculum to a group of children with autism and Asperger's. I have also used it to teach social skills to kids with autism on their own (as in, not in a group setting). The majority of the kids I've used this with LOVE it! I also really enjoy using the concepts in everyday life. I found the comic book to be a bit long and wordy for the population of kids I work with, but the older kids did seem to enjoy it, and I let them read it with silly voices to improve their attention during the story. The core concepts of the Unthinkables in this curriculum are spot-on and really benefit children who have poor social skills. I didn't use many of the resources in the book (worksheets, etc.); rather, I created my own to suit the needs of my clients.

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atbrown

So useful

Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2014

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This curriculum has been a staple for me as a school psychologist working with students on and not on the spectrum, including those with behavior problems. The more I use it, the more I am able to come up with alternative activities to teach the concepts. I have all the Superflex books that are available and have been able to use them all. Not only is it an engaging way to teach concepts that are typically very difficult for children to understand, but it provides strategies to "defeat the Unthinkable". They can be used in whole-group classroom lessons, small group and individually if needed for that extra bit of reinforcement. Some teachers have been skeptical about the "cartoon format", but the students absolutely LOVE the characters and will relate characters to real-life experiences.

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Julie Sp8

Just what I wanted!

Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2012

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This curriculum gives a great overview of all the Unthinkables, as well as sample lesson plans for introducing the characters. The CD that is included is a fast way to make pages that I can send home with my students. I wish they had included some clipart on the CD so that I could create some of my own pages, though.

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Victoria L. Elston

Inaccurate description

Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2020

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This curriculum is overpriced by the seller in my opinion. If you're only selling one book for the listed price, that is incredibly high. It also did not come with the storybook that is essential to the curriculum. Your product description discusses the storybook and it should be included in the purchase. Very disappointed with the experience and time that has been wasted.

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Kindle Customer

A bit of a challenge for this run-of-the-mill mom

Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2013

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I am hoping that this curriculum will provide a good framework for assisting our 6 year old child. The comic books have captured his attention and he has engaged in "self-study" with them. Having a CD with handouts makes life a lot easier. I would love to see more books in the series. Our son is such a strong reader that self-study is possible and perhaps even the best way to introduce concepts to him. Then we could use the funsheets to reinforce what he has "discovered" on his own.

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s hoague

Superflex ... A Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum:

Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2013

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This is such a cool and effective teaching tool for kids. They enjoy the cartoons and the message gets through. I have been using other Michelle Winner books and ideas, they are the best for helping children with weaknesses in understanding social interactions.

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david

Truly amazing and helpful

Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2019

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This curriculum has helped our family immensely! Truly thankful for it and what it has done for our son😁

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TonPar

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Reviewed in Canada on April 26, 2020

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This program was a great resource for school and my business.

A. Harrow

Superflex

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 16, 2013

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I found this curriculum being used at a school where I was teaching music and was immediately impressed by how very attractive it is to young people, particularly the preponderance of boys with SCD.

The books are very expensive for what you get, but the material is so valuable that it's worth biting the bullet at the price. I've bought this and several others in the series now I am working to help a young ten year old I know. He loves the materials and is really responding well.

Any child can benefit from Superflex and the Unthinkables - we all need to improve our social thinking and ability to think flexibly. The model is terrific, with the idea that 'Unthinkables' like 'Glassman' make you behave in certain inflexible ways, while Superflex comes along and helps you to think it more flexible ways.

I'm finding I'm using the terminology everywhere I go - to school classes and with individuals - even with adults in my family.

A great book. What a shame the materials are just too expensive for most individual people to afford.

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Amazon Customer

Great skill builder

Reviewed in Canada on February 10, 2020

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Amazing program for working one on one with students to develop skills