title: Sexuality education and adolescents with developmental disabilities: assessment, policy, and advocacy.
abstract: People with disabilities are sexual beings who, like all of us, benefit from sexuality education that examines relationship skills and knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and values that promote healthy sexuality within those relationships. This article provides an overview of landmark policies relevant to persons with disabilities, defines the strengths perspective in the context of curriculum development, and describes a survey built on this perspective that evaluates sexuality education curricula on the strengths rather than the deficits of people.
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA. tice@umbc.edu
authors.forename: Carolyn J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Tice
authors.forename: Diane M Harnek
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Hall
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002651:Child Advocacy; D002658:Developmental Disabilities / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005260:Female; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D008282:Mainstreaming, Education / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D012307:Risk Factors; D012736:Sex Education; D019529:Sexuality; D012946:Social Welfare; D014481:United States