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Pride Month: Resources for Understanding your Queer Students
Happy Pride Month! Here at Brain Power, we’re celebrating with our intersectional pride flags on! We’re very proud to say that we employ people across the gender and sexuality spectrums, and we think it’s critical to educate people about the latest and greatest...
Digital Tools to Empower and Motivate Students
A student staring out the window. A pupil poking their neighbor with a pencil. A young person whispering to their neighbor while a classmate speaks. Familiar sights to any person who has spent time in a classroom, disengaged students both impede their own learning and...
Helping Students Navigate Emotional Development During a Pandemic
Students are facing a mental health crisis. The COVID pandemic has led to soaring rates of depression and anxiety in children, and even more worryingly, increased suicidal thoughts and surging demand on emergency mental health services. Despite this, there are many...
Helping Students Cope with Anxiety During the Pandemic
1. Media Distancing “Don’t believe everything you read! Don’t react to everything on your feed!” Every media organization thrives when their audience engages or views their content. One of the most effective ways to achieve this is to arouse powerful emotions in their...
Misconceptions of Autism: Tech Savants
“We aren’t ‘defective,’ but we aren’t ‘enhanced’ either.” Julie discusses misconceptions of autistic individuals and how even positive stereotypes of autism are harmful.
Laughing at Random Moments
Julie talks about how an autistic individual’s sense of humor may differ from that of a neurotypical person. Check out her illustrations, too!
Autistic Perception of Common Gestures
Julie Esris, Brain Power’s animator, explains how some common gestures may come across to an autistic child. As someone on the spectrum herself, Julie describes with her own illustrations.
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