Resources:
Please ask your Nest Educator for additional resources and a booklet designed for puberty education and/or sex ed for those with additional needs.
Below are a mixture of articles, book recommendations and resources:
- How to discuss puberty with your child who has special needs
- disabilityconnect.org.nz/how-we-can-help/sexuality-education/
- Menstruation and disability advice for care givers
- The Teen Life Programme – Explore (Autistic Services)
- www.parentcenterhub.org/repository/sexed/. Contains information about sexuality education for students with disabilities for use with parents and teachers. The site also contains information about specific disabilities and sexuality, such as autism spectrum disorders, cerebral palsy, and spina bifida.
Autism Spectrum Disorders:
- suelarky.com.au
- https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/topics/family-life-and-relationships/sex-education/parents-and-carers
- Preparing for puberty – autistic children
- autismsexeducation.wordpress.com
- time.com/5870971/love-on-the-spectrum-netflix/ – A review of the Netflix series ‘Love on the spectrum’
Cerebral palsy.
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3093545/
- cerebralpalsy.org.nz/events-activities/events/
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5847148/
- www.vice.com/en_nz/article/gqk5bb/sexuality-with-a-disability
Deaf-Blindness. (Our programme is in braille –thanks to the NZ Blind Foundation) and has been signed for the hard of hearing on many occasions)
- https://www.perkins.org/resource/addressing-issues-sexuality-students-who-are-visually-impaired/
- https://inspire.ehe.osu.edu/2023/04/05/kids-with-visual-impairments-need-sex-ed-too/
- https://www.ssc.education.ed.ac.uk/resources/vi&multi/jsweeting98.html
Intellectual disabilities.
Physical disabilities.
Spinal cord injury.
Traumatic brain injury.