. Overview Objectives This is the session of Human Sexuality 101 being offered by The Autism Program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. This group is Expose students to anatomically designed for six middle school girls and boys with ASD. The children in this correct terms for body parts group are bright and engaging but have little formal exposure to sexuality involved with human topics. Many of these activities could be adapted for groups of various sizes reproduction. and ability levels. Support students with expressing and managing emotions. You will note that each item in the schedule is in bold during the activity Introduce the concept of portion of the curriculum. The activity section provides elaboration, privacy. instructions, and rational (in italics) for the methods used in this program. Any materials that are needed for activities that are unique to this session are Goals in bold. Participants will be able to This week, we have a series of activities geared toward teaching the students correctly identify the name and the anatomical for body parts involved in sexual reproduction. function of at least 3 parts of the reproductive system. Activity Participants will be able to express their emotions (either Each group starts with presenting a visual schedule of activities for the day verbally or through writing) with the times omitted. The schedule provides structures and allows participants to related to these terms. anticipate activities. Students will be able to correctly identify places and people that To warm up the for talking about body parts, we will start with body are at two different levels of parts they know using a game called and Post-it Notes”. Using a “Parts privacy. giant piece of paper we have a body outline (it doesn’t need to be too detailed). Give each student several post it notes. Instruct them to right down body parts that they know inside or outside parts- and then place – Schedule them on the body outline. You should model this processes. Write “heart” on the post it note and then place it on the chest of the figure. It is okay if Schedule for the Day (2 students use more casual language or put up sexual body parts. By starting out Minutes)
Overview This is the session of Human Sexuality 101 being offered by The Autism Program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. This group is designed for six middle school girls and boys with ASD. The children in this group are bright and engaging but have little formal exposure to sexuality topics. Many of these activities could be adapted for groups of various sizes and ability levels. You will note that each item in the schedule is in bold during the activity portion of the curriculum. The activity section provides elaboration, instructions, and rational (in italics) for the methods used in this program. Any materials that are needed for activities that are unique to this session are in bold. This week, we have a series of activities geared toward teaching the students the anatomical for body parts involved in sexual reproduction. Activity Each group starts with presenting a visual schedule of activities for the day with the times omitted. The schedule provides structures and allows participants to anticipate activities. To warm up the for talking about body parts, we will start with body parts they know using a game called “Parts and Post-it Notes”. Using a giant piece of paper we have a body outline (it doesn’t need to be too detailed). Give each student several post it notes. Instruct them to right down body parts that they know – inside or outside parts- and then place them on the body outline. You should model this processes. Write “heart” on the post it note and then place it on the chest of the figure. It is okay if students use more casual language or put up sexual body parts. By starting out . Objectives Expose students to anatomically correct terms for body parts involved with human reproduction. Support students with expressing and managing emotions. Introduce the concept of privacy. Goals Participants will be able to correctly identify the name and function of at least 3 parts of the reproductive system. Participants will be able to express their emotions (either verbally or through writing) related to these terms. Students will be able to correctly identify places and people that are at two different levels of privacy. Schedule Schedule for the Day (2 Minutes)
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