Some books below use the acronym LGBTQ+. This covers Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (and/or Questioning). + includes Asexual, Aromantic, Non-binary; Genderqueer, Intersex, and other sexual/gender minorities
Alex, Andrea, Debra, Elijah, Grady, Katrina, Morgan, Patrick, Safonia, Shawn and Susan Kimberly talk candidly about the challenges they encounter in their daily lives before, during and after transitioning and how in the end they all strive to come to a place of acceptance and fulfillment. These stories transcend the gender binary and illuminate the beauty of gender diversity. These films are sure to give you a new understanding of what it means to identify as transgender, transsexual or gender variant.
Alex, Andrea, Debra, Elijah, Grady, Katrina, Morgan, Patrick, Safonia, Shawn and Susan Kimberly talk candidly about the challenges they encounter in their daily lives before, during and after transitioning and how in the end they all strive to come to a place of acceptance and fulfillment.
From the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) online.
noun. "A range of variation in mental or neurological functioning in a group, esp. one that includes some persons on the autism spectrum; the state or quality of being neurodiverse."
In this lesson, students explore how people who are "differently wired"--or not "neurotypical"--negotiate, view and interact with the world. As students learn about autism through the lens of individuals with autism, they analyze the wide range of perceptions, reactions and means of engagement among those on and off the autism spectrum. They determine how to embrace neurodiversity, and how everyone might recognize and accept the diverse ways all people function in a norm-prescriptive society.
This lesson plan is prepared to increase the awareness of several mental health disorders. The plan provides team-based activities and a research project for students in three class periods. In Class 1, students explore the depictions of symptoms, treatments, and causes of a mental illness in “The Yellow Wall-Paper,” a short story written in late 1800s by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Students move from the past and fiction to the present in Class 2 as they work in teams to research and gather information on a specific mental health disorder in preparation for creating a poster for the third class. In Class 3 students display their posters as well as view other teams’ posters to share information and to raise awareness of various mental health disorders.