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Sex and Physical Disability

Title

Author

Format

Keywords / Topics

Publisher

Website address

Comment

Enabling Romance

A guide to love, sex and relationships for people with disabilities.

Ken Kroll and Erica Levy Klein ‘92

Book

Relationships

Sex and Physical Disability

Intimacy

Masturbation

Self Esteem

No Limits Communications

PO Box 220

Horsham

PA 19044

Good first hand accounts and illustrations. Focuses on couples. Predominately heterosexual.

Easy for You to Say

Dr. Miriam Kaufman

Book

Youth

Birth Control

Sex and Physical Disability

Pregnancy

Medical issues

Key Porter Publications

Covers many topics… sexuality included. Focuses on youth issues and questions. Covers many diverse disabilities.

End the Silence

Preventing the sexual assault of women with communication disorders: Developing a community response.

Pip Farrar ‘96

Book

Women who use AAC

Physical Disability

Sex Education

Safeguarding

 

Technical Resource Centre

200, 120-5 Street S.W.

Calgary, AB  T2R OY6

Excellent resource for women who use AAC, families, service providers, legal professionals, medical professionals and abuse counselors.

 

 

Choices in Sexuality for People with Physical Disabilities

 

Videotape

Couples and sex

Spinal Cord Injury

Negotiating sex

Sexual Positioning

 

Out-dated but still useful for discussing negotiating and positioning. Lacking in diversity (heterosexual couples only shown).

Intimate Resources for persons with Disabilities

Susan D. Wheeler

Linda Crabtree

 

Resource Guide

Sexuality

Disability

Resources

Internet

Sureen Publishing

5726

RR #1 Hillsburgh, ON

N0B 1Z0

Fax: 519 855 6746

Comprehensive list of resources… but not entirely current.

Under Cover Dick

Teaching men with disabilities about condom use

Dave Hinsburger

(1995)

Book and Videotape

Masturbation

Men with Intellectual disabilities

Diverse City Press

BM 272, 33 des Floralies

Eastman, Quebec

J0E 1P0

Aimed at people with intellectual disabilities. Does not address physical disability issues.

Fingertips:

Teaching women with disabilities about masturbation

Dave Hinsburgher

Sandra Haar

(2000)

Book and Videotape

Masturbation

Women with Intellectual Disabilities

Diverse City Press

BM 272, 33 des Floralies

Eastman, Quebec

J0E 1P0

Aimed at People with intellectual disabilities. Does not address physical disability.

Caution: Do not open until Puberty

Rick Enright

1995

Book

Youth

Puberty

Physical Disability

Bodies

Parents

Devinjer House

PO Box 130

Sparta, ON  N0L 2H0

Good humorous approach to youth with disabilities and sexuality. Not detailed information but more of an introduction.

The Sexual Politics of Disability

Tom Shakespeare

Kath Gillespie-Sells

Dominic Davies

(1996)

 

Book

Disability

Sexuality

Culture

Discrimination Oppression

Cassell

Wellington House

125 Strand

London WC2R 0BB

ENGLAND

First hand accounts and essays on sexuality and disability in Britain. Not sex education material but social commentary.

Untold Desires

Sarah Stephans (director)

1994

Videotape

Sex and disability

Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered issues.

SBS Television and Film

Victoria

 

Very diverse… gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people with disabilities speak about their lives.

Couples with Intellectual Disabilities Talk about Living and Loving

Karin Melberg Schwier ‘94

Book

People with Intellectual Disabilities

Woodbine House

5615 Fishers Lane

Rockville

MD 20852

Does not address issues for people with physical disabilities.

A collection of resources on sex and disability

Cory Silverburg

2001

Article and resource list

Resources

Internet

Abilities Magazine

May 22nd 2001

Good resources on sex and disability.

It's Okay:

Consumer written and edited by Linda Crabtree

1993

Newsletter

Sexuality

Dating

Consumers

Empowerment

Disability

Out of Circulation

Out of Circulation.

Consumer written articles about dating, sex, and relationships.

Sexuality and Disability:  A matter that concerns all of us

 

The Swedish Institute for the Handicapped

1986

Training manual accompanied by questions for discussion

Disability

Sex

Youth

 

The Swedish Institute for the Handicapped

A training manual for staff/ service providers to become more comfortable discussing sexuality and disability.

What's your Pleasure?

Lisa Bendall

2001

Article

Sexual assistance and personal attendant services

Abilities Magazine

May 22nd 2001

Attendant services and sexual assistance.

Facilitated Sex

Mitch Tepper

2000

Article

Disability & Sex Attendants and assistance

New Mobility Magazine

September 2000

An introduction to the challenges of assisted sexuality.

Who calls the shots?

Linda Crabtree

1994/95

Article

Sexual assistance and personal attendant services

It's Okay

(Out of circulation)

Winter 1994/95

One consumer's frustrations with the lack of support around sexuality.

The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability

For all of us who live with disability, chronic pain and illness

Miriam Kaufman, M.D., Cory Silverberg, and Fran Odette

Book

Disability & Sex

Cleis Press Inc., PO Box 1468, San Francisco, California 94114

For everyone, men and women of all ages and sexual identities, it covers the span of disabilities: cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury. It includes information for AAC users.



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