Express Diversity

Express Diversity -- a program focused around children and youth with disabilities

Express Diversity is a series of modules, activities and resources to expand students’ sensitivity and awareness of the importance of every individual.  The focus is disability and the arts—infused in such a way as to promote discussion and new insights.  The five different activities in the Express Diversity include:  Introductions to Disability, People First, Communities for Everyone, Important Contributions, & Inventions and Independent Living. Looks at technology from the standpoint of problem solving.  Discussion and activities are designed to help student discover how experimenting and adapting have served to find solutions to problems.


Age Range: 8-16-years-old, 2nd to 12th Grade

Learning Objectives & Standards:

  • Identify problem-solving techniques.
  • Identify adaptations and assistive technology that support people with disabilities.
  • Create an imaginative solution to a fictitious problem experienced by a person with disabilities.
  • Students relate the visual arts to various historical and cultural traditions.
  • Students analyze and evaluate the characteristics, merits, and meaning of works of art.
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