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 [...]
Stanfield’s Circles Level 1 and 2 focus on teaching special needs students appropriate physical boundaries. Level 1: “First Step” is separated into two parts. The first explains the concept of “social distance.” Through video demonstrations and an enormous eight-foot by four-foot wall graph, students learn to “see” what the appropriate [...]
For many special needs individuals, understanding appropriate intimacy levels for different relationships is challenging. In many cases, the special needs person feels open and welcoming to nearly everyone they meet. As a result, feelings of rejection may occur, which they find bewildering, confusing and painful. The James Stanfield Publishing Company [...]
The James Stanfield Publishing Company’s Life Horizons is the most widely used intimate relationship education program for persons with developmental and learning disabilities. Currently used in over 5,000 schools, Life Horizons is available in DVD or slide formats. Teacher-determined editing is allowed for in regard to sensitive content. Life Horizons [...]
