ETR Spring 2023 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. An 8-module program designed to provide young adolescents with the knowledge, confidence and skills necessary to reduce their risk of sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy by abstaining from sex. The curriculum emphasizes that young adolescents should postpone sexual activity and that practicing abstinence is the only way to eliminate the risk for pregnancy and STDs, including HIV. ETR, dfusion and Kent ISD collaborated to create this adapted version of Making a Difference! to serve the special needs of high school students with mild cognitive impairment (MiCI). Because students with MiCI have different instructional needs than their general education peers, the pedagogical approach has been adapted to make the information understandable and relevant for these youth. This adaptation may also be appropriate for other age ranges and developmental disabilities. Making a Difference! For Youth with Cognitive Impairments

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