1st Edition
Sexuality, Learning Difficulties and Doing What's Right
158 Pages
by
David Fulton Publishers
161 Pages
by
David Fulton Publishers
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First Published in 1996. This book has resulted from our awareness of the difficulties that professionals and parents face in accepting the sexuality of the people with learning disabilities with whom they live and work. It has been written at a time when discussion of such difficulties, and awareness of the prevalence of the sexual abuse of people with learning disabilities, is becoming more and more common.
Chapter 1 Language, labelling and political correctness; Chapter 2 Sexuality as an ethical issue: a storytelling approachPart 1 Ethics, learning difficulties and sexualitypart2 Sweet little mystery: the person with learning difficulties as a sexual beingpart3 Exploitation, abuse and assault: the sexual misuse of people with learning difficultiespart4 Being and becoming: sex education, responsibility and the limits of inclusion;
Biography
Gavin Fairbairn, Denis Rowley, Maggie Bowen
"This book addresses sexuality and people with learning disabilities. It explores the rights they have to learn about sexuality issues, to form relationships, and to express themselves sexually." -- Sexuality and Disability, February/ March, 2001
