Have you heard about Superflex?

Superflex is an imaginative superhero that students can think about to help them use their minds to help them identify strategies and tools to apply to different areas of their lives such as self-regulation, social thinking, and related social skills. Superflex…A Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum is an evidenced-based practice that was first published in 2008 and created for K-5 students. Although the curriculum was created for K-5, older students have also been very interested and engaged in the curriculum. This is a great program that can be adapted to better fit various situations and settings regardless of age. 

In most schools today, the Superflex series is being implemented in mainstream elementary school classrooms for use with all students, and as part of Social Emotional Learning, Positive Behavioral Intervention Supports (PBIS) and Response to Intervention (RTI) programs.

And then, there were the unthinkables! Superflex and the thinkables represent the superhero that is inside each and everyone of us. 

https://www.socialthinking.com/-/media/Images/Products/Superflex-Thinkables-Poster.ashx 

The unthinkables: 

http://www.avon-schools.org/cms/lib02/IN01001885/Centricity/Domain/4734/Parent%20Packet.pdf

This curriculum is very affordable. When working with different populations of people, this curriculum can be adapted to fit the needs of the group. Concepts are explained very clearly and are very easy to understand. Whether using these characters-or challenging your students to create their own, Superflex is a great way to get students engaged and thinking about their strengths, things they are good at, and things they may need to work on in the future. This CBT therapy is effective in helping students not only identify feelings or actions, but also it provides students with tools and coping mechanisms necessary to defeat their Unthinkable. For a homework or weekly assignment, there is a chapter that focuses on defeating your Unthinkable. The log looks like a bookmark in which the student logs strategies that they used to defeat their Unthinkable and at the end, POW! The Unthinkable has been defeated! After the assignment is complete, it can be laminated and given back to the student as a keepsake to always look back on when confronted by an Unthinkable.