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Learning capers
- Author:
- RUSHTON Janet
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 19.4.95, 1995, pp.42-43.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Describes workshops developed to help people with learning difficulties to increase their knowledge and understanding of sexuality.
Sexual activity in people with profound learning disabilities
- Author:
- REID D.A.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 23(2), 1995, pp.56-58.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reports a study aimed at measuring the proportion of individuals in this group who engage in sexual behaviours and to look for any relationship between this behaviour and intellectual ability within the group. Approximately half of the sample were engaged in some sort of sexual activity but no correlation with intellectual ability was found. The practical and legal implications for carers are discussed briefly.
Running the risk: HIV and people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- LANDMAN Roderick
- Journal article citation:
- Mencap News, 52, March 1995, pp.8-9.
Outlines a practical approach for equipping people with learning disabilities with the skills and personal qualities needed to be responsible within their sex lives.
Sexuality as a perceived hazard in the lives of adults with learning difficulties
- Authors:
- HEYMAN Bob, HUCKLE Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 10(2), 1995, pp.139-155.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Qualitative research by the present authors has suggested that the management of hazards is a central issue for adults with learning difficulties (adults) and informal carers. This paper focuses on adult sexual relationships as a perceived hazard. Informal carers viewed such relationships as unacceptably dangerous. Those from 'danger avoiding' families, who had low risk tolerance, prohibited situations which might lead to a sexual relationship, e.g. privacy with a boy or girlfriend. Informal carers from 'limited risk taking' families gave adults more scope, e.g. to move freely round the locality, and were anxious that the adult, unsupervised, might become involved in a sexual relationship which he or she could not manage. Adult views about their own sexual relationships are analysed in these social contexts, and the implications for professional practice aimed at enhancing adult autonomy are briefly considered..
Real men, real women, real lives? Gender issues in learning disabilities and challenging behaviour
- Authors:
- CLEMENTS John, CLARKE Isabel, EZELLE Lesley Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 10(4), December 1995, pp.425-435.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article seeks to define gender issues and explores the significance of these issues for challenging behaviour in the field of learning disability. It is argues that lack of awareness about these issues contributes to the development of challenging behaviour and to difficulties in identifying the needs expressed through these behaviours, whatever their origin. Specific areas examined include models of residential provision for adults, prioritisation of service activities, attribution processes (needs identification), and the sexuality of people with learning disabilities. In each area issues are raised and the implications for service practice defined.
Why wait until sexuality becomes a "problem"?
- Author:
- LOCKLEY Jean
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, January 1995, p.16.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Sets out the key issues on sexuality facing social workers. Looks at different client groups: children and young people; people with learning difficulties; people with physical difficulties and elders.
Sexuality and learning disability: the way forward; report on a conference held on 15 February 1995 at North Lindsey College, Scunthorpe, co-ordinated by the Health Promotion Service (Grimsby & Scunthorpe) and funded by Yorkshire Regional Health Authority
- Author:
- HOLMES Jennie
- Publisher:
- Contact a Family
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report from a conference which involved parents and carers of children and young people with learning difficulties.
Sexuality, learning difficulties and doing what's right
- Authors:
- FAIRBAIRN Gavin, ROWLEY Denis, BOWEN Maggie
- Publisher:
- David Fulton
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 148p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Uses a story telling approach to explore the rights of people with learning difficulties to be informed about sexuality, to form relationships, to express their sexual nature and found families. Also addresses the issue of sexual abuse.
Staff attitudes towards individuals with learning disabilities and AIDS: the role of attitudes towards client sexuality and the issue of mandatory testing for HIV infection
- Authors:
- MURRAY James L., MACDONALD Raymond A.R., MINNES Patricia M.
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap Research, 8(4), 1995, pp.321-332.
- Publisher:
- BIMH Publications
Investigates staff attitudes towards individuals with learning disabilities and AIDS in combination with staff attitudes towards client sexuality. Two hundred sand forty-six respondents from one organisation in Scotland voluntarily and anonymously returned the nine-item Staff Attitudes Towards Person with Learning Disabilities and AIDS Scale and the Sexuality and Persons with Learning Disabilities Attitude Inventory. Looks at the implications of the findings and discusses future research and limitations of the study.
Attitudes of speech and language therapists to intimate relationships among people with learning difficulties: an exploratory study
- Authors:
- HARRIS Philip, BRADY Carmel
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 23(4), 1995, pp.160-163.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Explores the attitudes of speech and language therapists (SLT) to intimate relationships among people with learning difficulties.