High School Body Image Lesson Plan
This lesson plan revolved around teaching what body image means, understanding that people feel differently about their bodies, and that people change how they feel about their bodies over time. After...
View ArticleYoung Adult Human Sexuality Group: Connections
I’m partnering with a local service provider to offer a 10 week human sexuality class, Connections. I’m really excited about it. The goal is that the community agency will be able to continue...
View ArticleAdult Human Sexuality Week 3- Crushes
The main activity this week was a series of worksheets designed around walking participants through the steps of having a crush: places to meet someone, why you notice someone, deciding to talk to...
View ArticleAdult Human Sexuality Week 5- Power in Relationships
For those of you who have come to a workshop, this activity was similar to what we did in the workshop. We thought about power and control in relationships and specifically the benefits of having more...
View ArticleAdult Human Sexuality Week 4- Dating
The previous week focused on crushes so this week’s topic, dating, was a natural extension. We did a lot of role playing and it went wonderfully. We were able to pull out parts of the role play to...
View ArticleDevelopmental Disabilities and Sexuality Curriculum
This is a curriculum by Katherine McLaughlin at Planned Parenthood, Karen Topper at Green-Mountain Self-Advocates, and Jessica Lindert. I know several folks who use this curriculum and really love it....
View ArticleF.L.A.S.H.
FLASH is a curriculum that was developed in the Seattle area and was adapted for students with special needs. It’s free and has some nice lesson plans. I don’t usually use any of them from start to...
View ArticleHuman Sexuality Week 9- Gender Roles
It was really fun teaching about gender roles. Gender roles and gender identity were difficult concepts. Most of the people in the group talked about wearing a dress as if it made you a women. So we...
View ArticleAdult Human Sexuality Week 8- Sexuality and the Law
At this stage in the game, my partner in crime took over teaching the course. This is part of training paradigm were testing out where we partner with a community agency to teach the course. We...
View ArticleAdult Human Sexuality Week 10- Closing
This week was just a review. We had three review activities, but only got to two of them because we spent a lot of time on questions. I posted all the topics and subtopics on the board and asked...
View ArticlePuberty Videos for Boys & Girls
Here are videos that were developed for 10 – 17 year olds on the autism spectrum regarding puberty & other sexuality topics. They are clear, concrete, and move through the material slowly (this is...
View ArticleHigh School Human Sexuality 101 Week 4- Crushes
During week 4, we focused on understanding crushes. There were three activities for the participants this week: What is a crush? The participants first brainstormed things that a person with a crush...
View ArticleHigh School Human Sexuality 101 Week 2- Anatomy
Anatomy and Reproduction were the topics for week 2. We started off the session with a game called “Parts and Post-it Notes” to talk about body parts with the participants. To play this game we had a...
View ArticleAdult Human Sexuality Week 5- Power in Relationships
For those of you who have come to a workshop, this activity was similar to what we did in the workshop. We thought about power and control in relationships and specifically the benefits of having more...
View ArticleAdult Human Sexuality Week 3- Crushes
The main activity this week was a series of worksheets designed around walking participants through the steps of having a crush: places to meet someone, why you notice someone, deciding to talk to them...
View ArticleHigh School Human Sexuality 101 Week 1: Welcome
This summer, at TAP in Urbana-Champaign, we are doing an eight week human sexuality group for middle school students. We have three boys and three girls in our group who range in age throughout the...
View Article8 Week Middle School Human Sexuality Curriculum
Over the summer, I did a 8 week sexuality class with middle school students with autism (3 boys and 3 girls). I’ve posted each lesson from the curriculum, but I thought I’d link all the posts together...
View ArticleAdult Human Sexuality Week 1: Welcome
In the first week of the adult human sexuality class, we focus on meeting the others in the class and establishing a level of respect and expectations for the class. First, the group will create a list...
View ArticleThe Healthy Bodies Toolkit
This publication was developed and written by Vanderbilt Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND). There is a boy version and girl version. Each version has a booklet for...
View ArticlePEERS Program
The Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS) was originally developed at UCLA by Dr. Elizabeth Laugeson, Founder and Director of the UCLA PEERS Clinic, and Dr. Fred Frankel...
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