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More than pictures: who sets the agenda for sexuality education for people with learning disabilities?
- Author:
- OLSEN Angela
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 22(2), 2017, pp.66-70.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a commentary on Cameron and Matthews’ paper “More than pictures: developing an accessible resource”. Design/methodology/approach: It reflects on how much people with learning disabilities are involved in research and resource development and how the attitudes of caregivers impact on how people learn about sexuality. Findings: Most published research is written by people who do not have learning disabilities but people with learning disabilities are taking part in research and they are making changes to the way things happen. Parents, educators and caregivers are often reluctant to discuss sexuality with people with learning disabilities and this affects how much people can understand about it. Originality/value: This paper argues for greater involvement of people with learning disabilities in research processes. (Publisher abstract)
Talking about sex and relationships: the views of young people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- CHANGE
- Publisher:
- Change
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 144p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
This easy reading and illustrated accessible report from CHANGE (a leading national equal rights organisation led by disabled people) is based on research carried out by a team including researchers with learning disabilities and using a range of techniques including drama work with young people with learning disabilities. The report recommends more and better sex education, tailored for those with learning disabilities, better training and more support for professionals and more involvement of parents. Key findings suggest there needs to be more accessible sexual health information for young people with learning disabilities and for their parents, and this needs to include information about sexuality, abuse, and practical information about safer sex. There needs to be better training for teachers and sexual health professionals about delivering sex education or sexual health information to people with learning disabilities. Negative attitudes towards people with learning disabilities around sex and relationships need to be challenged by awareness-raising and education.
An investigation of students' with mild learning disabilities reactions to participating in sexuality research
- Authors:
- THOMAS Gail, KROESE Biza Stenfert
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 33(3), September 2005, pp.113-119.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This study investigates 35 students' with mild learning disabilities reactions to participating in a research project exploring their sexual knowledge, attitudes and behaviour. Students completed an informed consent procedure prior to their participation in the sexuality research and all were interviewed using a confidential interview procedure. During the research interviews, each student's reaction to participation was observed and recorded by their interviewer. Following the interviews, each student's reaction to participation was observed and recorded by their college tutor. Researchers observed that although some students were embarrassed discussing certain sexual topics, none chose to stop their interviews when invited. Ten students requested additional information from their interviewers about the issues discussed. Tutors reported that no students appeared anxious or distressed following their interviews and that no inappropriate sexualized behaviour, or talk, were observed. Tutors also reported that several students appeared to have been positively affected by their participation. No tutors expressed concern about their students participating in similar research in the future. It is concluded that a number of methodological and participant factors may have accounted for the positive outcomes reported. The implications of these findings and recommendations for future research are discussed.
'May we please have sex tonight?'– people with learning difficulties pursuing privacy in residential group settings
- Author:
- HOLLOMOTZ Andrea
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 37(2), June 2009, pp.91-97.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Many residential group settings for people with learning difficulties do not provide individuals with the private space in which they can explore their sexual relationships in a safe and dignified manner. Lack of agreed private spaces seriously infringes the individual's human rights. Many people with learning difficulties who lack privacy have no other option but to escape to isolated public or semi-private spaces to be sexually active. This places individuals at risk. It is suggested that self-advocacy driven policy guidance must be developed which must require residential services to review their practice to ensure that they accommodate residents' need for privacy, whilst supporting them to lead safe sexual relationships.
Discussing the menopause with women with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- McCARTHY Michelle, MILLARD Lorraine
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 31(1), 2003, pp.9-17.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Traditionally, little attention has been paid to the menopause as it affects women with learning disabilities. Consequently, older women with learning disabilities have rarely been adequately prepared for, or supported through, what for most women is a significant 'change of life'. None of the existing literature focuses on the women's perspectives, but rather, looks at menopause from a medical angle, in particular focusing on the timing of onset. The research study described in the present paper is an attempt to gain some insights into the ways in which women with learning disabilities perceive the menopause. The main informants were women with learning disabilities themselves, but also general practitioners, staff in learning disability services and parents who still cared for their middle-aged daughters at home. The research project also involved the non-disabled researchers working alongside two groups of women with learning disabilities, who acted as advisors and consultants to the project.
Doing disability research
- Editors:
- BARNES Colin, MERCER Geof
- Publisher:
- Disability Press
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 236p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
Looks at key issues and problems in translating disability theory into research. Questions addressed include: breaking the researcher-researched hierarchy; involving disabled people; ownership and control; disability research funding; measuring disability barriers; research and the survivors' movement; narrative approaches; researching sexuality, multiple oppression, abuse and violence; and researching disability in non-European contexts.
Your place or mine: a handbook for workers delivering a service to people with learning disabilities in their own homes
- Author:
- FURZE Yvonne
- Publisher:
- Association for Residential Care
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 231p.
- Place of publication:
- Chesterfield
Practical handbook on delivering community care services to people with learning difficulties. Includes sections on: past, present and future services for people with learning difficulties; laying the foundation for good outreach support; outreach with attitude; communicating effectively; healthy lifestyles; day to day work; support with everyday personal care; friendships, relationships, sexuality and abuse; neighbourhood networks; and advocacy, person centred planning, and complaints.
Signposts in fostering: policy, practice and research issues
- Editor:
- HILL Malcolm
- Publisher:
- British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 380p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Brings together seminal papers, previously published in the journal Adoption and Fostering, contributing to the shaping of fostering practice. Includes articles on: local authority fostering in Wales; a comparative survey of specialist fostering; developing leaving care services; recruiting and retaining foster carers; gender, sex and sexuality in the assessment of prospective carers; assessing Asian families in Scotland; involving birth parents in foster care training; using respite care to prevent long term family breakdown; short term family based care for children in need; short term foster care; meeting the needs of sibling groups in care; fostering as seen by the carers children; fostering children and young people with learning difficulties; the importance of networks to partnership in child centred foster care; how foster carers view contact; the role of social workers in supporting and developing the needs of foster carers; the social worker's experience of contact; social work and the education of children in foster care; the health of children looked after by the local authority; the statutory medical and health needs of looked after children; how foster parents experience social work with particular reference to placement endings; foster carers who cease to foster; the implications of recent child care research findings for foster care; and the foster child - the forgotten party.
Values and visions: changing ideas in services for people with learning difficulties
- Editors:
- PHILPOT Terry, WARD Linda
- Publisher:
- Butterworth-Heinemann
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 422p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Includes chapters on: supporting families of children and adults with learning difficulties; achieving supported housing; supported employment and real jobs; continuing education for adults with learning difficulties; institutional trends in services; developing better relationships between health and social services; assessment and care management; making contracts work for people with learning difficulties; user participation in services; complaints procedures; developing better services for people from black and minority ethnic communities; gender issues; older people with learning difficulties; self advocacy; challenging behaviour; sexuality; parents with learning difficulties; poverty; and media images of people with learning difficulties. Also contains sections on services provision in the United States and Canada.