This engaging book is part of our Superflex Series, which is designed to help children learn about their own and others’ thoughts and social responses, and practice strategies for self-regulation across a variety of situations. As kids learn strategies to manage the UnthinkaBots, they strengthen their flexible thinking and are better able to self-regulate in challenging times.
This illustrated storybook connects to and supports these Social Thinking Vocabulary concepts:
· Figuring out the size of the problem (Kool’s Prob-u-lator)
· Learning to match reaction size to size of the problem
· Social attention/observation
· Flexible Thinking
· Sensory- and language-based strategies to manage Glassman and the ExplodaBots: calming my body, breathing in, tightening all my muscles and then breathing out and relaxing them (Cooling Cap); using positive self-talk, and more.
Adults who are using the Superflex curriculum and concepts can use Superflex and Kool Q. Cumber to the Rescue!in several ways:
· To help children celebrate their successes in managing Glassman and the ExplodaBots
· To teach about and illustrate how activating their Kool Q. Cumber Thinkable powers can help them learn to match the size of their reaction to the size of a problem
· To help children understand and practice positive strategies for self-regulation
Best-Selling Superflex Series
Our best-selling Superflex Series, including Social Detective, gives educators, therapists, and caregivers tools for supporting and teaching social observation, social awareness, perspective taking, executive functioning, flexible thinking, and self-regulation.
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 30-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.