Superflex Superdecks are card games created to invoke your own superflexible thinking as you teach students to be more superflexible social thinkers. It’s all about superflexibility! The game pack is a companion teaching tool to the popular Superflex Curriculum, which helps parents and professionals teach children ages 8 – 11 about social thinking, social regulation, and social problem solving.

We’ve included a game to play with each deck (and more games are available online), but the product was really created to be super-uper flexible, with uses limited only by your imagination and your own superflexible thinking. For instance:

• Create games such as “Go Fish” with the cards to use with your students
• Use the Thinkables cards to say “good job” when an Unthinkable has been defeated
• Use an Unthinkable card as a visual reminder for a student to use his/her strategies when the clever, sneaky character is invading a student’s brain
• Pick an Unthinkable or Thinkable and have students use their Social Detective skills to play a version of “I Spy…” and look for that character showing up in themselves or others in the group, the classroom, or the school

The Superdecks are not an introduction to Superflex, and should only be used with students who are already familiar with the concept of being a Social Detective (introduced in the book, You Are a Social Detective), and are either working through or have completed the Superflex Curriculum. The games and activities provided prompt players to think about the powers of the characters, brainstorm which Unthinkable might appear in a situation, match strategies to characters, or Thinkables and Unthinkables* (we are officially changing Unthinkables to UnthinkaBots over the course of 2021-22) , and use their social thinking in other superflexible ways.

Downloadable Free Supplemental Materials

Expand and customize the Superdecks to your students’ needs! These materials provide even more superflexibility! 

• Blank template for each card deck
• Additional Games & Activities
• Five-Step Power Plan blank template and filled-in samples

Contents

• 4 card decks each with: 52 plastic coated cards (standard playing card size) and a large 7 x 9" laminated card with a game/activity to play with the deck. The four decks sit in a removable plastic tray and all contents fit neatly into the 7.25 x 9.5” game box. Games range from simple to more complex, using one or more decks.
• Unthinkables deck: cards have character image and name (no powers); multiples of each of 14 characters
• Thinkables deck: cards have character image and name (no powers); multiples of each of 14 characters, plus Superflex cards
• Situations deck
• Strategy deck
• Superflex and brain sensor cards included too!
• Power Pals/Five-Step Power Plan (4 copies): laminated 7 x 9" reference guide with the Power Pals on one side and the Power Plan teaching template on the other
• Unthinkables & Thinkables (4 copies): laminated 7 x 9" reference guide with 14 Unthinkables and their powers on one side; 14 Thinkables and their powers on the other
• Ages of Players 8-11
• 2+ Players

Learn How to Teach Superflex

Michelle Garcia Winner, Superflex co-author and the founder of Social Thinking, shares tips for teaching ages 8-11 with Social Thinking products (including Superflex products), in this free, recorded webinar. Get the inside scoop!

*Name Change from the Team of Unthinkables to the Team of UnthinkaBots

We have officially changed the name of the Team of Unthinkables to the Team of UnthinkaBots. The Superflex curriculum was born in 2008, and over its lifetime we have relied on input and ideas from clients, students, families, teachers, and therapists in both the neurodivergent and neurotypical worlds. Using their feedback and our own clinical experience, we have refined the curriculum series to include Thinkables, expand the characters in Social Town, and add the You Are a Social Detective, 2nd edition, storybook as a way to welcome social learners into the Superflex Universe. Recently, while meeting with neurodivergent adults, we discovered that the concept behind the creation of the Unthinkables was misunderstood and, at times, misused in classrooms and clinics by having certain Unthinkables represent children or people, rather than specific thoughts or actions.

To encourage interventionists to use these concepts in the manner intended, we are changing the name of Unthinkables to UnthinkaBots. With this new name, social learners can now imagine the Bots that try to control some of our thoughts and actions. For example, Was Funny Once releases SillyBots to get us to use humor at unexpected times and in unexpected situations. We all can learn to tackle the SillyBots with strategies and tools from the Social Thinking® Methodology. We hope you will enjoy imagining new ways to think about the UnthinkaBot characters in classrooms, small groups, and at home! One more thing. We replaced 4 of the 14 “first generation” characters with new names: Mean Bean (previously Mean Gene/Jean), Me-Gull (formerly One-sided Sid), Body Drifter (formerly Body Snatcher), and Blurt Out Blue (formerly Grump Grumpaniny).

We will be updating our products with these changes over the course of 2021 and 2022. It makes sense that we’re teaching students to be superflexible, since we, as publishers, also flex a lot as we learn. We hope you enjoy incorporating these important updates.