Forms of Identity: Disabilities Students can express their thoughts on gender in writing, Students can explain the differences between kinds of disabilities, and Students can analyze how someone with a disability perceives themselves.

Thoughtbook Journal Entry “How has your gender influenced the way you interact with those around you?” Consider things like the way you talk to people of the same vs. opposite gender, interests you have, or the way you dress.

Merriam-Webster defines it as a physical, mental, cognitive, or developmental condition that impairs, interferes with, or limits a person's ability to engage in certain tasks or actions or participate in typical daily activities and interactions. The ADA defines it as a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activity.

Kinds of Disabilities Physical – affects a person’s mobility or dexterity. Mental – affects a person’s mood, thinking, or behavior. Cognitive – affects a person’s memory, attention, and skills related to learning. Developmental – severe, chronic disabilities that manifest before a person is 22 years old.

Physical – Cerebral Palsy Caused by abnormal development or damage to a developing brain (cdc.org) In a 2008 study by Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, 58% of children with CP could walk independently. 41% of children with CP also had epilepsy.

People with Cerebral Palsy

Mental - Anxiety Most common form of mental illness in the U.S. Affects 40 million (18%) adults in the U.S. Physical symptoms include heart palpitations, feelings that their throat will close up, sweating, blushing, faintness, trembling and stammering.

Forms of Anxiety - General Characterized by worrying excessively about a variety of things such as grades, family issues, relationships with peers, and performance in sports (adaa.org). Affects 6.8 million American adults. Women twice as likely to be affected as men.

Forms of Anxiety - Social Characterized by an intense fear of social and performance situations and activities (adaa.org). Affects about 15 million American adults.

Forms of Anxiety - OCD Characterized by unwanted and intrusive thoughts and feeling compelled to repeatedly perform rituals and routines to try and ease anxiety (adaa.org). Affects about 2.2 million American adults.

Cognitive - ADHD Affects a person's ability to focus, sit still, and pay attention. May have difficulty finishing tasks, remembering where they placed things, and following instructions. According to CDC, affects about 6.4 million (11%) school-age kids. Boys (13.2%) more than twice as likely as girls (5.6%) to be diagnosed.

Frontal lobe is involved in problem solving, memory, and impulse control.

Alice Walker Born in 1944 in Georgia Youngest of 8 children Most famous for her novel, The Color Purple

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