ETR Fall/Winter 2022 Health Curricula Catalog

Sexual & Reproductive Health

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Everyone deserves accurate, supportive, skills-based sexuality education

Sexuality Education for People with Developmental Disabilities

Everyone deserves access to trusted information and services related to their sexual health. Sexuality Education for People with Developmental Disabilities is designed for high school students and adults with developmental disabilities. The content is engaging, cognitively accessible, and appropriate for co-teaching teams of self-advocates, staff and educators. The comprehensive Instructor Manual has tips on how to be an effective sexuality educator and innovative strategies for handling common challenges. Educators can choose specific topics for their setting, and each lesson plan includes a script, handouts and teaching tools. Participants can practice skills such as understanding public and private situations, recognizing healthy/unhealthy relationships, and making decisions about sex. The program also covers Internet safety, social media and communication, gender identity and expression, and abuse prevention skills and techniques.

About the Author Katherine McLaughlin, MEd, CSE, is a national expert on sexuality and developmental disabilities. She teaches sexuality education to people with developmental disabilities and trains them to be peer sexuality educators. She has also developed online courses for educators and for parents of people with disabilities.

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