"Comprehensive Sex Education for Youth with Disabilities: A Call to Action"

Check out this newly published report by SIECUS (Sexuality information and Education Council of the US).

While I appreciate much about this report, I especially appreciated this: “At least one in five Americans will have a disability in their lifetime, and almost all people will experience chronic pain, illness, or disability with age. Navigating sexuality with a disability is therefore a near-universal experience.” Yes! This is why, while it’s essential that we work to remedy the historical exclusion of PWD from sexuality education (at all age levels), we also need to change how we teach sex education to make our curriculum inclusive no matter who (we perceive) is in the room (IRL or virtual).

Click HERE to read the full report (39 pages).