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Sexual Education for students with severe and profound disabilities

Sexual Education for students with severe and profound disabilities. Jennifer Schroeder, SESA Multiple Disability Specialist. Objectives. Participants in this presentation will learn: Why it is important to teach students with severe and profound disabilities sexual education

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Sexual Education for students with severe and profound disabilities

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  1. Sexual Education for students with severe and profound disabilities Jennifer Schroeder, SESA Multiple Disability Specialist

  2. Objectives • Participants in this presentation will learn: • Why it is important to teach students with severe and profound disabilities sexual education • How to decide what materials to cover with students • Ideas on how to present sexual education materials to students • View a sample of materials that can be used to teach sexual education to students

  3. Why teach sex education to students with severe and profound disabilities? • Help prevent sexual abuse • Give students a sense of ownership over their own bodies • Teach students boundaries • Improve self-esteem • Lessen fear and discomfort regarding natural body functions • Improve student communication

  4. How to decide what to cover with students. • Materials should be presented at a chronologically, age appropriate level • Create developmentally appropriate materials for the chronological age-based lessons • Start with basic information and slowly build on it • Teach students the right to refuse and the right to privacy

  5. How to present topics to your students. • Use visuals • Use clear and precise (and correct) language • Use frequent repetition • Provide practice opportunities • Provide the needed communication to students in whatever form they communicate (pictures, SGD, verbally) • Use task analysis for more complicated tasks

  6. Statistics of Sexual Abuse of People with Disabilities • In a study of 95 adults with disabilities 83% of females and 32% of males had been sexually abused (Hard, 1986) • In a study of 162 people with disabilities 80% experienced some form of sexual assault and 49% were assaulted more than 10 times (Sobsey and Doe, 1991) • In a study of 27 adults 80% of females and 54% of males had been sexually abused (Stromness, 1993) • 68% of girls and 30% of boys are sexually abused or assaulted prior to the age of 18 (Sobsey, 2001) back

  7. Teach Students Boundaries • Students need to be aware of the appropriate boundaries for a variety of settings • School, home, community, travel into larger communities • Teaching boundaries allows students to act more appropriately with their same age peers back

  8. Lessen fear and discomfort regarding natural body functions • Puberty is going to happen to students with severe disabilities when they are chronologically ready, not developmentally ready • Prepare females for developing breastsand getting their period • Prepare males for spontaneous erections and wet dreams back

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