Clinician’s Guide to Sexuality and Autism: A Guide to Sex Education for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders

ISBN-13: 9780323957434 / Angielski

Jessica Cauchi; Peter Gerhardt; Justin B. Leaf

Opis

Clinician’s Guide to Sexuality and Autism: A Guide to Sex Education for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders is the first book to provide clinicians with comprehensive curriculum of sexuality education skills for people with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Starting with the importance of teaching sexuality skills to people with autism, this book provides an outline and overview of the recommended teaching strategies (e.g., Behavioral Skills Training, Cool vs. Not Cool, video modeling). This book also reviews the fourteen skill domains directly related to sexuality, including the key skills one should acquire in each domain. A timeline focusing on what skills should be targeted at what age and what skills to teach across the lifespan are also discussed. The curriculum covers domains that are often neglected in sex education for people with different disabilities in general (e.g. values, types of relationships, gender identity, or preferences). Additionally, this curriculum addresses component skills of sexuality in a way that allows early teaching to build upon areas of learning systematically over time, thus likely to have an improvement in teaching over time.

Spis treści

Part one: Introduction and Foundational Material 1. Introduction 2. Autism and Sexuality 3. How to use this book 4. Teaching methods

Part two: Curriculum 5. Body parts 6. Menstrual care 7. Reproduction and birth control 8. Health and hygiene 9. Law 10. Online safety 11. Sexual acts 12. Social skills 13. Sexual abuse prevention and reporting 14. Masturbation 15. Sexual orientation 16. Gender identity 17. Choice making and preferences 18. Relationships