Sexuality and Safeguarding Topics for Youth who Use AAC

Speak Up Project 2004

• Learning and communicating about sexuality:
  • Body parts for both sexes (medical and non-medical terms)
  • Healthy body image
  • Boundaries of touch and privacy
  • Human sexuality, reproduction and the birth process
  • Recognizing and communicating “No” to unwanted touch.
  • Knows about diversity and range of sexual orientation and identities
  • Menstruation and nocturnal emission
  • Sexual pleasuring and intimacy
  • Masturbation and sexual feelings
  • Relationship development (platonic, dating, commitments , child rearing etc.)
  • Birth control and sexually transmitted infections.
  • Communicating consent and non-consent
  
  
• Learning and communicating about safeguarding:
  • Human rights and dignities
  • Personal privacy
  • Boundaries and touch practices with strangers, acquaintances, friends, family members etc.
  • Safety awareness and skills relative to activities of daily living – eating, drinking, being in a known/unknown community, meeting strangers etc.
  • Dealing with conflict
  • Negotiating consent
  • Developing a personal safety plan.
  • Healthy and unhealthy relationships in imagined and real life scenarios.

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