Sexuality and Relationship Education for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Sexuality and Relationship Education for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Author: Davida Hartman
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2013-10-21
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0857007556

Children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) require specialized teaching strategies when learning about puberty, sexuality and relationships. This professional resource offers practical teaching advice geared towards the needs of young people on the autism spectrum. Beginning with information on good practice, policy, teaching methods and recent research, the book then divides into key sex education topics that assist professionals in developing their own individualized and developmentally appropriate curricula. Covering issues of gender, public and private, puberty, hygiene, emotions, sex and more, each topic provides an overview of the difficulties that children with autism might experience, discussion and activity ideas and photocopiable resources including instructional stories, checklists and illustrations. The final section demonstrates how to respond to ongoing patterns of inappropriate behaviour and put together a behaviour plan. Aiming to explain and support the child's developing sexuality while also addressing crucial issues of safety, this book is a much-needed teaching manual for all professionals working with children and young adults with autism including educators in mainstream and special education, psychologists, therapists and social workers.

Risky Lessons

Risky Lessons
Author: Jessica Fields
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2008-06-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0813544998

Curricula in U.S. public schools are often the focus of heated debate, and few subjects spark more controversy than sex education. While conservatives argue that sexual abstinence should be the only message, liberals counter that an approach that provides comprehensive instruction and helps young people avoid sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy is necessary. Caught in the middle are the students and teachers whose everyday experiences of sex education are seldom as clear-cut as either side of the debate suggests. Risky Lessons brings readers inside three North Carolina middle schools to show how students and teachers support and subvert the official curriculum through their questions, choices, viewpoints, and reactions. Most important, the book highlights how sex education's formal and informal lessons reflect and reinforce gender, race, and class inequalities. Ultimately critical of both conservative and liberal approaches, Fields argues for curricula that promote social and sexual justice. Sex education's aim need not be limited to reducing the risk of adolescent pregnancies, disease, and sexual activity. Rather, its lessons should help young people to recognize and contend with sexual desires, power, and inequalities.

The Sex Education Answer Book

The Sex Education Answer Book
Author: Cath Hakanson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2020-10-30
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780648716204

By the age responses to tough questions kids ask parents about sex (for parents of kids aged 3 -14)

Great Relationships and Sex Education

Great Relationships and Sex Education
Author: Alice Hoyle
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2019-11-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351188259

Great Relationships and Sex Education is an innovative and accessible guide for educators who work with young people to create and deliver Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) programmes. Developed by two leading experts in the field, it contains hundreds of creative activities and session ideas that can be used both by experienced RSE educators and those new to RSE. Drawing on best practice and up-to-date research from around the world, Great RSE provides fun, challenging and critical ways to address key contemporary issues and debates in RSE. Activity ideas are organised around key areas of learning in RSE: Relationships, Gender and Sexual Equality, Bodies, Sex and Sexual Health. There are activities on consent, pleasure, friendships, assertiveness, contraception, fertility and so much more. All activities are LGBT+ inclusive and designed to encourage critical thinking and consideration of how digital technologies play out in young people’s relationships and sexual lives. This book offers: Session ideas that can be adapted to support you to be creative and innovative in your approach and that allow you to respond to the needs of the young people that you work with. Learning aims, time needed for delivery, suggested age groups to work with and instructions on how to deliver each activity, as well as helpful tips and key points for educators to consider in each chapter. Activities to help create safe and inclusive spaces for delivering RSE and involve young people in curriculum design. A chapter on ‘concluding the learning’ with ideas on how to involve young people in evaluating and reflecting on the curriculum and assessing their learning. A list of recommended resources, websites, online training courses and links providing further information about RSE. With over 200 activities to choose from, this book is an essential resource for teachers, school nurses, youth workers, sexual health practitioners and anyone delivering RSE to young people aged 11–25.

Talk about Sex

Talk about Sex
Author: Janice M. Irvine
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780520243293

Describes the political transformations, cultural dynamics, and affective rhetorics that together helped ignite the passionate conflicts over sex education on both the national and local levels in the United States.

The Complete book of Sex Education

The Complete book of Sex Education
Author: Dr. Rajan Bhonsle, M.D.
Publisher: Jaico Publishing House
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2016-08-17
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 8184959060

A handbook for sex education that is VALUE BASED • CULTURE-SPECIFIC • AGE APPROPRIATE The Complete book of Sex Education is a complete source book for value-based, culture-specific and age-appropriate education in human sexuality. It discusses social, behavioral, relational, emotional and even legal aspects of human sexuality. It is meant for the reference of adult sex-educators such as parents, teachers, doctors, counsellors, psychologists and social workers. Adult individuals and couples who seek to educate themselves can also refer to this book. Great care has been taken to respect the sensibilities of all communities, groups and schools of thought in India; and to make it culture-specific yet contemporary, without compromising on the scientific accuracy of the subject. Dr. Rajan Bhonsle is Professor and HOD, Sexual Medicine, at KEM Hospital and Seth GS Medical College, Mumbai and Dean of the Institute of Human Technology. He is the founder of India’s first full-fledged pre-marriage counselling centre. Author of many books on sex education, he is also a prolific columnist for leading newspapers and magazines. Dr. Minnu Bhonsle is a consulting psychotherapist and counsellor at the Heart To Heart Counselling Centre, Mumbai. She is an international trainer in Client Centered Therapy and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and has trained thousands of professionals worldwide. She is a columnist and feature writer for prominent publications and Internet sites, writing on psycho-social and relationship issues.

Sex Education

Sex Education
Author: Jenny Davis
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995
Genre: Caring
ISBN: 9780440204831

As a project for an unusually open class in sex education, Livvie and her boyfriend David learn to care for a pregnant young neighbor, and as they become deeply involved with her and with each other, they learn about love and caring and eventually about pain and courage.

The Sex Education Debates

The Sex Education Debates
Author: Nancy Kendall
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2013
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0226922278

Educating children and adolescents in public schools about sex is a deeply inflammatory act in the United States. Since the 1980s, intense political and cultural battles have been waged between believers in abstinence until marriage and advocates for comprehensive sex education. In The Sex Education Debates, Nancy Kendall upends conventional thinking about these battles by bringing the school and community realities of sex education to life through the diverse voices of students, teachers, administrators, and activists. Drawing on ethnographic research in five states, Kendall reveals important differences and surprising commonalities shared by purported antagonists in the sex education wars, and she illuminates the unintended consequences these protracted battles have, especially on teachers and students. Showing that the lessons that most students, teachers, and parents take away from these battles are antithetical to the long-term health of American democracy, she argues for shifting the measure of sex education success away from pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection rates. Instead, she argues, the debates should focus on a broader set of social and democratic consequences, such as what students learn about themselves as sexual beings and civic actors, and how sex education programming affects school-community relations.

You're Teaching My Child What?

You're Teaching My Child What?
Author: Miriam Grossman
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2009-08-04
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1596985542

Exposes the lies and misconceptions about sex education taught to American children in school, including information on sexually transmitted diseases, contraception, and homosexuality.