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Sexuality and profound and multiple impairment
- Authors:
- DOWNS Caroline, CRAFT Ann
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 1(4), October 1996, pp.17-22.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article addresses issues of concerns relating to the group whose needs in relation to sexuality have for too long been ignored, namely those with profound and multiple disabilities. Outlines the development of a specialist project to meet those needs and some of the difficulties and dilemmas faced along the way. Emphasises the importance of staff training and support for staff to explore their own values and feelings towards the sexuality of this client group.
Sex and the 3 Rs: rights, responsibilities and risks; a sex education package for working with people with learning difficulties; catalogue of pictures
- Authors:
- McCARTHY Michelle, THOMPSON David
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 60p.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
This catalogue of pictures should be used in conjunction with the main booklet 'Sex and the 3 R's' as part of a package designed to train staff in how to teach adults with a wide range of learning difficulties about sex and sexuality. The teaching pack emphasises throughout the right of people with learning difficulties to express their sexuality, while at the same time taking responsibility for their actions.
Sex and the 3 Rs: rights, responsibilities and risks; a sex education package for working with people with learning difficulties
- Authors:
- McCARTHY Michelle, THOMPSON David
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 88p.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Teaching pack accompanied by a booklet containing illustrations. Aimed at staff working with adults with a wide range of learning difficulties who need to address issues of sexuality and sex education. Emphasises throughout the right of people with learning difficulties to express their sexuality, but at the same time behaving responsibly.
Ordinary women: issues for women with learning disabilities
- Author:
- BROWN Hilary
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 24(2), 1996, pp.47-51.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reviews some key issues for women with learning disabilities and those who work with them arguing that many of these are 'ordinary' women's issues which are exacerbated because they often remain unacknowledged. Services ignore gender more than sexuality leading to very atypical lifestyles for women with learning disabilities. Explores how women's needs around fitness and appearance, sexuality and sexual abuse, reproductive rights and experiences of motherhood and caring for others could be supported by services which were more willing to acknowledge that women with learning disabilities are 'women first'.
Sex education workshops for parents of children with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- BLAKEY Virginia, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 24(4), 1996, pp.150-153.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This paper presents an evaluation of the experience of parents of children with learning disabilities who took part in workshops focusing on the sex education needs of parents. Parents' concerns prior to the workshops related particularly to dealing with menstruation and masturbation, and to protecting their children from sexual abuse. The workshop experience gave parents greater awareness of their children's sexual needs and feelings, as well as new and relevant information. A major benefit of attendance at the workshops was the support which parents gained from each other. Issues which need to be addressed to maximise the impact of such workshops include increasing the numbers of parents who attend; ensuring that emotive and painful topics are sensitively facilitated; and the production of suitable sex education resources for parents to use with young people with learning disabilities.
'Just when you think you got it all sorted...': parental dilemmas in relation to the developing sexuality of young profoundly disabled people
- Authors:
- SWAIN John, THIRLAWAY Carole
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 24(2), 1996, pp.58-64.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Sexuality is a neglected topic in the literature focusing on young profoundly disabled people. For parents and formal carers who work with parents and young people themselves, however, sexual development and identity pose fraught and complex challenges in understanding and addressing young people's needs. This paper is based on qualitative research which explored parents' experiences, feelings and understandings and the responses of formal carers to parents' perspectives. The parents faced contradictory pressures to deny and not to deny sexuality. Formal carers drew on beliefs about 'good parenting' in reactions to the position of parents. Both groups confronted real dilemmas with young people who are incapable, and may never be capable, of informed consent of self-determination in sexual relationships.