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Sex Education

Overview

This section offers guidance and teaching strategies for parents and professionals for delivering sex education to students who are deaf-blind. Appropriate sexual behavior, social-sexual behavior, appropriate touch, dating, modesty and sexual abuse prevention are some of the topics discussed.

Introductory Resources

Introduction to Sexuality Education for Individuals Who Are Deaf-Blind and Significantly Developmentally Delayed

Source: DB-LINK

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Becoming a Woman

Source: Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Deafblind sex education

Source: Scottish Sense Center

Special Issue of California Deaf-Blind Services Newsletter (Summer1997) on Sexuality

Source: California Deaf-Blind Services

Strategies for Minimizing the Risk of Sexual Abuse

Source: California Deaf-Blind Services

Values and Value Changes in Society impacting on Deafblind individuals

Source: A-Z to Deafblindness

Recommended Readings

More on Sex Education

Bibliographies

Sex Education Materials

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