Sexuality & Disability

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 and resources:

• www.healthclick.co.nz/puberty-changes/
• 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
• Supporting youth with disabilities  to talk about sexuality 
• 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
• autism.about.com/od/transitioncollegejobs/f/sexed.htm
• www.child-autism-parent-cafe.com/sexuality-and-autism.html
• 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.sportsheets.com/blogs/sex-blog/sex-with-cerebral-palsy-toys-comfortable-positions-keep-you-in-the-moment-2018-3-13
• www.readunwritten.com/2018/05/18/reality-sexual-cerebral-palsy/
• 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)

• nationaldb.org/documents/products/sex-ed.pdf

Intellectual disabilities.

• ihc.org.nz/sites/default/files/documents/Primary%20Schools%20Library%20Catalogue%20February%202017.pdf
• www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/intellectual-disability-and-sexuality

Learning disabilities.

• hpq.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/14/4/601
• www.nursingtimes.net/nursing-practice-clinical-research/teaching-sex-education-to-children-with-learning-disabilities/299962.article

Physical disabilities.

• en.copian.ca/library/research/ccl/best_practice/best_practice.pdf

Spina bifida.

• www.waisman.wisc.edu/~rowley/sb-kids/publications/Sex.pdf

Spina bifida | Health care for women.

• spinabifidaassociation.org/project/health-care-for-women/

Spina bifida | Men’s health.

• spinabifidaassociation.org/project/mens-health/

Spinal cord injury.

• www.uab.edu/medicine/sci/daily-living/sexuality-a-sexual-function

Traumatic brain injury.

• www.msktc.org/tbi/factsheets/Sexuality-After-Traumatic-Brain-Injury