The Discussion Children with special needs are like everybody else—they have sexual feelings and needs. Unfortunately, their disabilities may also make them particularly vulnerable to predators and exploitation. Paradoxically, often a real problem for children with special needs is the reluctance of parents and teachers to discuss issues that arise [...]
“Sexuality is an integral part of the personality of everyone: man, woman and child; it is a basic need and aspect of being human that cannot be separated from other aspects of life (World Health Organization, 1975)”. At JSC we accept this as a given: we are all sexual beings, [...]
Since the 1970’s, James Stanfield has been in the forefront of providing sexuality education for individuals with developmental and related disabilities. Through writing, publishing, and producing high quality audio-visual sexuality curricula, Dr. Stanfield has brought easy-to-use, sensitive, real world curricula to special populations for several decades. Beginning with Winifred Kempton’s [...]
The Centers for Disease Control took a national survey taken of thousands of teenaged mothers and uncovered an alarming piece of news. About a third of the young women who became pregnant said that they didn’t use birth control because they didn’t believe they could become pregnant! Reasons cited to [...]
Three national groups- Advocates for Youth, Answer, and the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States- have established a set of standards for what kids should know on the topic of sex at a number of levels. According to the new rules, by the end of second grade, students should [...]
