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Sex education for pupils with severe learning difficulties: A SURVEY OF PARENT AND STAFF ATTITUDES
Author(s) -
Squire Joan
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of the british institute of mental handicap (apex)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.633
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1468-3156
pISSN - 0261-9997
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3156.1989.tb00520.x
Subject(s) - curriculum , psychology , medical education , pedagogy , developmental psychology , medicine
In April 1987 a survey of parental and staff attitudes was undertaken into the question of providing a personal and social education curriculum at an all‐age day school for pupils with severe learning difficulties. The results show that, while questions of appearance, health, hygiene, and social behaviour were almost unanimously agreed to be relevant, areas of explicitly sexual knowledge and behaviour were not thought to be relevant by the majority of parents. Staff views differed from those of the parents, favouring a much more wide‐ranging approach to the content of such a curriculum. Parents of young pupils were more positive than parents of older pupils in their views of what should be included in the curriculum and in their overall expectations of the pupils.