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Provides information about helping people express their sexual needs, explains differences between the male and female anatomy and ways to develop and maintain intimate relationships. We not only want to provide information in this area, but in the interest of full community inclusion, show examples of people with disabilities who are dating, in long term relationships or are married.
Features curricula and programs designed to foster safe and self-determined self-expression and to minimize the dangers of exploitation and abuse.

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Books, Publications & Reports (printed and/or online)
"Self Before Sex–Perspectives on Support, Self-Esteem and Sexuality" in Adults with Down Syndrome
This chapter appears in Dr. Sig Pueschel's newest book, Adults with Down Syndrome, to be released spring of 2006. The chapter is written from a parent point-of-view with invited contributions from five adults in Canada and the U.S. who have Down syndrome.
22 Things a Woman Must Know If She Loves a Man with Asperger's Syndrome
This book gives women tips about having a good relationship with a man who has Asperger Syndrome (AS). The author is a person who has AS.
22 Things a Woman with Asperger's Syndrome Wants Her Partner to Know
This book is about Asperger's syndrome from a woman's perspective. It contains things she would want her partner to know.
A Girls' Guide to Growing Up: Choices and Changes in the Tween YEars
This is a book for young girls with disabilities. It will help them learn about changes in their bodies and feelings as they grow up.
A Training Manual for Direct Care Staff
A book to help DSPs better understand the sexual behavior of the people they support.
A Very Special Wedding
A TIME magazine article about a couple with Down syndrome who decided to take the plunge and get married.
About Masturbation For Females (revised version)
This easy-to-read book teaches women about masturbation.
Alone Together: Making an Asperger Marriage Work
This book is about what it's like to be married to a person who has Asperger's Syndrome.
An Asperger Marriage
This book is about a married couple in which one person has Asperger's syndrome.
Asperger Syndrome and Long-Term Relationships
The author of this book is married to a man with Asperger's syndrome. In it she explains what that's like for her.
Asperger's and Girls
This book is about girls who have Asperger's Syndrome.
Asperger's Syndrome and Sexuality: From Adolescence Through Adulthood
This book is about sexuality and people with Asperger's Syndrome.
Autism - Asperger's and Sexuality: Puberty and Beyond
A book written by a husband and wife with Asperger's Syndrome. In the book they give advice about sex and relationships for teens and young adults with autism.
Autistics' Guide to Dating: A Book By Autistics, For Autistics and Those Who Love Them or Who Are in Love with Them [Paperback]
A book co-written by a husband and wife who both have autism. In the book they reflect on their personal experiences and give advice on relationships.
Being a Healthy Woman
This book is about staying healthy. It is easy to read for women with intellectual disabilities.
Being a Healthy Woman Factsheets
These are easy to read fact sheets about being a healthy woman.
Born on the Wrong Planet
This book is the life story of a woman who has autism.
Caring Relationships: Helping People with Mental Impairments Understand God's Gift of Sexuality
A guidebook for caregivers and friends of people with ID/DD around questions of sexuality/relationships.
Connecting With Your Asperger Partner Negotiating the Maze of Intimacy
This book deals with intimate relationships when one person has Asperger Syndrome and the other does not.
Cripple Poetics: A Love Story
"Cripple Poetics: A Love Story" is a collection of correspondence between two individuals. The authors are artists who have disabilities. This collection follows as their love and attraction unfolds.
Disability & the Art of Kissing: Questions and Answers on the True Nature of Intimacy
This is a book about sex, and is written for people with disabilities.
Doing What Comes Naturally? Dispelling Myths and Fallacies about Sexuality and People with Developmental Disabilities
A book about helping people understand the sexuality of people with disabilities
Educating Youth with Developmental Disabilities
A resource with information on what educators can do to educate youth with developmental disabilities about adolescent pregnancy.
Embracing Sexuality
TASH special newsletter issue about sexuality
Ethical Dilemmas: Sexuality and Developmental Disability
This book addresses the critical issues of sexuality in people with developmental disabilities
Every body needs to know
This is a curriculum about sexuality. It is for teaching self-advocates.
Falling in Love (From the "Books Beyond Words" series)
This book uses a story with drawings to explain what it is like to be in an intimate relationship. It is easy to understand and can be read together with a helper.
Feeling Good About Yourself: A Guide for People Working with People Who Have Disabilities or Low Self-Esteem
Provides information and activities on self-esteem, socialization skills, sex information, decision making, assertiveness, and preventing victimization.
Finger Tips: A guide for teaching about female masturbation
This book and video set is aimed at teaching women with developmental disabilities about masturbation.
Friendships, Feelings & Futures: Relating to Myself and Others
This is a sexuality education training guide suitable for people with or without disabilities.
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People With Developmental Disabilities and Mental Retardation: Stories of the Rainbow Support Group
This book describes the history and achievements of the Rainbow Support Group. This group offers support for people with developmental disabilities who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender.
Growing Up on the Spectrum: A Guide to Life, Love, and Learning for Teens and Young Adults with Autism and Asperger's
This book is about the concerns of, and for adolescents and young adults who are on the autism spectrum.
Hand Made Love: A guide For Teaching About Male Masturbation
This book and video set discusses privacy, pleasure and the realities of sharing living spaces with others.
Healthy Relationships and Safe Sex: Tips for Self-Advocates
A handbook that helps self-advocates learn how to have healthy relationships and be safe if they are sexually active. It was written by a self-advocate to help others.
I Contact: Sexuality and People with Developmental Disabilities
This is a book about how to support each and every person's sexuality.
Impact: Feature Issue on Sexuality and People with Intellectual, Developmental and Other Disabilities
This newsletter talks about what it means to support sexuality as a part of life for people with disabilities. It has some articles about policy and research, and others that tell the stories of real people.
Intimate Relationships and Sexual Health: A Curriculum for Teaching Adolescents/Adults with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders and Other Social Challenges
This book offers a guide for teaching adolescents and adults with autism about sex and sexuality.
Just Say Know!
This book explores the victimization of people with disabilities and help reduce the risk of sexual abuse.
Lesbian Couples: A Guide to Creating Healthy Relationships
This book talks about many aspects of family and community life for people who are lesbian.
Let's Talk Relationships: Activities for Exploring Love, Sex, Friendship and Family With Young People 2nd Edition
This book has activities to teach young people who have autism about relationships.
Life and Love: Positive Strategies for Autistic Adults
This book is written by a woman who has Asperger's Syndrome. In the book she gives ideas on how to handle daily life activities.
Life Cycle: How We Grow and Change Curriculum
This curriculum helps people who have intellectual disabilities learn about the stages of human development. There is a DVD and an extensive curriculum.
Living Well on the Spectrum
This book has ideas for people on the autism spectrum to improve the quality of their lives.
Love, Sex and Long-Term Relationships: What People with Asperger Syndrome Really Really Want
This book is about sex and people who have Asperger Syndrome.
Love, Sex, and Disability: The Pleasures of Care
This book is about relationships between people with and without disabilities.
Lovers Lame
This book tells the story of two people who have disabilities and are in a relationship. It is not a true story.
Loving Each Other Safely (From the "Books Beyond Words" series)
This book uses a story with drawings to explain relationships and safe sex. It is easy to understand and can be read together with a helper.
Loving Mr. Spock: Understanding a Lover with Asperger's Syndrome
This book is about a woman in love with a man who has Asperger's Syndrome.
Loving the Tasmanian Devil - Reflections on Marriage and Asperger Syndrome
The author of this book is married to a person with Asperger's syndrome, and also has three "aspie" sons.
Making Sense of Sex A Forthright Guide to Puberty, Sex and Relationships for People with Asperger's Syndrome
This book is about sexuality and people with Asperger's Syndrome.
Mike's Crush
This book has lessons for youth with Asperger's syndrome about relationships and boundaries. There is also a version for families.
My Pregnancy My Choice
This book explains what it feels like to be pregnant, and to have a baby. It is written for self-advocates.
People with Disabilities and Sexual Assault
This is a fact sheet about sexual assault and people with disabilities.
People with Learning Disabilities and Same-Sex Relationships: Results of a study undertaken in Edinburgh 2004
This booklet is about people in same-sex relationships. It is written to self-advocates.
Periods: What You Need to Know
This booklet explains about getting your period. It is written for young girls.
pleasure ABLE Sexual Device Manual for Persons with Disabilities
This manual explains devices that people with physical disabilities can use when having sex. It was created by occupational therapists.
Positive Choices: Healthy Relationships, Sexuality, and Safe Boundaries for Secondary Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
This training program is about relationships, safety, and sexuality. It is for people with intellectual disabilities.
PossAbilities
This is training material to help people of all abilities create relationships and make safe, responsible choices about sexuality. There are both training manuals and PowerPoint slides available for sale.
Puberty Information for Parents
These are two page fact sheets that give parents of adolescents with disabilities information and advice about puberty. There are separate sheets for parents of boys and of girls.
Quality in Practice---Intimacy/Dating/Marriage
An article with tips for agencies about how to best support people in having romantic relationships
S.T.A.R.S.: Skills Training for Assertiveness, Relationship-Building, and Sexual Awareness
A book for teaching youth and adults with disabilities about positive sexual relationships and ways to prevent sexual abuse.
SAFE BEGINNINGS: Protecting Our Children from Sexual Abuse
SAFE BEGINNINGS is an inclusive parenting book to support parents and child care providers in the prevention of sexual abuse.
Sex education for children with intellectual disabilities - tips for parents
This helps parents when it is time to talk about sex with their son or daughter who has disabilities.
Sex, Sexuality and the Autism Spectrum
This book is written by a psychologist. She is also a woman who is gay and has Asperger's Syndrome.
Sexuality and Cerebral Palsy
A book about sexuality written for people who have cerebral palsy. It is a good book for all people to read, including those with other disabilities. Click on the links tab to see and read the entire book online.
Sexuality and Disability: A Guide for Parents
This booklet is to help parents talk to their children about sex, sexuality and people with disabilities.
Sexuality and Fertility Issues in Ill Health and Disability From Early Adolescence to Adulthood
This book is about sexuality and fertility issues for people with disabilities.
Sexuality and Intellectual Disability
A fact sheet that answers many interesting questions about sexuality and people with disabilities.
Sexuality and Learning Disabilities
This handbook is about sexuality and people who have intellectual disabilities. It is written for both parents and professionals.
Sexuality and People with Disabilities
This posted conference paper was presented by Leslie A. Myers at the Grow With Us 2006 Rehabilitation and Transitions Conference in Kohler, WI, in April. Paper discusses sexuality as a social phenomenon.
Sexuality Education for Adults with Developmental Disabilities
A set of lessons about sexuality. It is designed for self-advocates and staff to teach as a team.
Sexuality Education of Children and Adolescents With Developmental Disabilities
This product is a policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics about secuality and adolescents with disabilities.
Sexuality: Your Sons and Daughters with Intellectual Disabilities
A book to help parents ensure their child develops healthy sexuality.
Susan's Growing Up (From the "Books Beyond Words" series)
This book uses a story with drawings to explain what it is like for a young woman to have her first period. It is easy to understand and can be read together with a helper.
Talk About Sex
This illustrated "minibook" is intended for young people aged 16-24 on a wide range of sex and sexuality issues. It is not designed specifically for youth with disabilities but the language is easy to understand.
Teaching Children with Down Syndrome About Their Bodies, Boundaries and Sexuality: A Guide for Parents and Professionals
This book is about teaching children, teens and young adults who have intellectual disabilities about healthy sexuality. It is written for parents, teachers, professionals and support people.
Teaching Children with Down Syndrome about Their Bodies, Boundaries, and Sexuality
A book for parents of children with Down syndrome to guide them when teaching their child about sexuality.
The Aspie Girl's Guide to Being Safe with Men The Unwritten Safety Rules No-one is Telling You
This book has advice about staying safe around men.
The Boy's Guide to Growing Up Choices & Changes during Puberty
This book explains puberty using easy to read text with drawings.
The Disabled Woman's Guide to Pregnancy and Birth
This is a book written by a woman with cerebral palsy who gave birth to two children. It is a comprehensive guide for women with all types of disabilities, on all aspects of pregnancy and birth.
The Ethics of Touch: Establishing and Maintaining Appropriate Boundaries in Service to People with Developmental Disabilities
A training package for those who provide direct care to people with developmental disabilities on the topic of touch.
The Facts of Life...and More
This book gives social workers, teachers, and direct support professionals comprehensive instruction on how to educate people with disabilities about sexuality.
The Guide to Dating for Teenagers with Asperger Syndrome
This book is a conversation starter about dating. It can be read with a teacher or a parent.
The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband
This book is about a man with Asperger Syndrome who wants to make his marriage a better one.
The Partner's Guide to Asperger Syndrome
This book is about being in a relationship with a person who has Asperger Syndrome.
The Story of Beautiful Girl
A book that tells a love story about a woman with a developmental disability and a man who is deaf. The story begins in the late 1960s and continues for forty years.
The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability For All of Us Who Live With Disabilities, Chronic Pain & Illness
A self-help book about sex for the many people who have disabilities, live with pain, or who are often sick.
Under Cover Dick: A Guide For Teaching About Condom Use Through Video and Understanding
This training tells why condoms are important and shows how to put one on. There is a booklet and a video.
Understanding & Expressing Sexuality: Responsible Choices for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities.
Published in 1992 and no longer in print, this is nevertheless one of the authoritative works on sexuality and people with developmental disabilities.
WE CAN Stop Abuse Peer Training Manual
The manual teaches what is needed to have people with developmental disabilities teach others about sexual abuse prevention.
WE CAN Stop Abuse: A Sexual Abuse Prevention Curriculum for Persons with Developmental Disabilities
An 8-session, interactive curriculum to teach sexual abuse prevention skills to people who have developmental disabilities. It includes a DVD.
What’s A Leg Got To Do With It?: Black, Female and Disabled in America
This scholarly paper is about being a Black female with a disability.
Women Be Healthy: A curriculum for women with intellectual and developmental disabilities
This curriculum teaches women how to avoid breast and cervical cancer. It is available online.
Women with Disabilities: Found Voices
This book was written by women with disabilities and those who work with them.
Electronic Media (Videos, CDs, T.V., Radio, Websites, etc.)
10+ ADD Relationship Tools for Lasting Love
This online article gives people with ADD ideas to help build strong and healthy love relationships.
A Boy's Guide to Growing Up (DVD set)
This DVD helps boys who have intellectual disabilities learn about puberty.
A National Conversation on Healthy Relationships series on CD
A set of CDs about people with disabilities and relationships.
Adam
This is a film about a relationship between a young man with Asperger syndrome and the woman of his dreams.
Beautiful
A short film about the challenges two people with disabilities face when their relationship is displayed in public.
Can We Get Married?
This is a BBC documentary about Emma and Ben, who each have Down syndrome. They have been living together for six years and are thinking about getting married. It is on YouTube.
CeDIR: Sexuality and People with Disabilities: A Selected Bibliography
An online list of materials available to Indiana residents from the Center for Disability Information and Referral (CeDIR)on sexuality issues
Come As You Are
A store that includes sex toys and other resources especially for people with disabilities.
Dennis
This is a short film/music video about a young man with Down's syndrome. He copes with his disability by living through his dreams.
Disability and sexual issues
This fact sheet talks about sex and disability.
Disability and Sexuality: Exploring the Intimacy Option
This DVD is about sexuality and people with physical disabilities.
Disabled Dating- Dating4Disabled.com
Online community offers blogs, forums, dating and more. Aimed at facilitating social and romantic development in a supportive and understanding environment. Fun way to make new friends, and find a partner for life. Membership is free and non-committal.
Doin' It: Sex, Disability, & Videotape
The Empowered Fe Fe's is a group of young women with disabilities from Chicago. They created a film about being a teenager and having a disability.
Don't Look Past My Disabled Body-love it
This blog entry is about relationship issues and people who have disabilities. It is written by a woman who has disabilities.
Dream Lover
Seth, a shy man with developmental disabilities, lives in a group home with Linda, a woman he loves from afar.
Every body needs to know
This is a curriculum about sexuality. It is for teaching self-advocates.
Finger Tips: A guide for teaching about female masturbation
This book and video set is aimed at teaching women with developmental disabilities about masturbation.
Hand Made Love: A guide For Teaching About Male Masturbation
This book and video set discusses privacy, pleasure and the realities of sharing living spaces with others.
Human Reproduction and Childbirth DVD
This DVD is about the human reproduction system and giving birth.
Impact: Feature Issue on Sexuality and People with Intellectual, Developmental and Other Disabilities
This newsletter talks about what it means to support sexuality as a part of life for people with disabilities. It has some articles about policy and research, and others that tell the stories of real people.
Intellectual Disability & Sexual Expression: Implication for Staff
This CD is about teaching people with intellectual disabilities about sexuality.
Intellectual Disability and Sexual Expression: Understanding and Protecting Needs, Knowledge, and Rights
This CD proposes a person-centered approach to teaching people about sex.
Intimate Relationships and Sexual Health: A Curriculum for Teaching Adolescents/Adults with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders and Other Social Challenges
This book offers a guide for teaching adolescents and adults with autism about sex and sexuality.
Jason's Private World
This DVD teaches about sexuality from a male perspective.
John and Michael
An animated love story about two men with Down Syndrome. This film explores the themes of love, loss and healing.
Kabal i hjerter (Hearts)
This film from Norway is a love story about a couple with Down syndrome and a best friend who also has Down syndrome. This film has won many awards around the world.
Kylie's Private World
This animated DVD teaches about female sexuality.
Let's Get Physical
This is a video about sex.
Life Cycle: How We Grow and Change Curriculum
This curriculum helps people who have intellectual disabilities learn about the stages of human development. There is a DVD and an extensive curriculum.
Live Safe: Preventing HIV/AIDS For Women with Intellectual Disabilities DVD
This DVD teaches people about AIDS.
Loose contact
A film about a slowly developing intimacy between two shy people with developmental disabilities (Filmed in German with English subtitles).
Love and Kisses DVD
This DVD teaches about relationships. It has actors who have disabilities and uses some humor.
Love Limits
This documentary film is an exploration of two people's individual stories and their life together. Though very different in age and background, they share the same disability.
Love Rolls On: Disability and Marriage
This is the web site of Megan and Barton Cutter. Married since 2004, Barton has a disability and Megan does not.
Love Saves the Day: Surviving your Wedding
An article about wedding planning for people with disabilities.
Marriage and Disability (disaboom.com)
A section on the Disaboom.com web site. It talks about marriage and people with disabilities.
Microtraining DVDs (for therapists)
These DVDs teach therapists the best ways to help people who have disabilities. Topics include cultural diversity, sexuality, and disability etiquette.
More Disabled Women are Having Children
This article talks about women with disabilities having babies.
Mythconceptions about Sexuality and the Disabled
This DVD expalins things people do not understand about disability and sex.
National Sexuality Resource Center's Sexuality and Disability website (San Francisco State University)
A website that talks about issues of disability and sexuality. It has many stories written by people with disabilities.
No! How!!
A video to increase awareness regarding the sexual victimization of people with disabilities.
Office Hours With Dr. Jim. Online Dating: Revealing a Disability
This article gives ideas on how and when to tell someone that you have a disability. It is written for people who find new relationships online.
Otto: Love, Lust and Las Vegas
This movie tells the story of Otto, a young adult with Down Syndrome. His dream is to have a girlfriend.
People with Learning Disabilities and Same-Sex Relationships: Results of a study undertaken in Edinburgh 2004
This booklet is about people in same-sex relationships. It is written to self-advocates.
pleasure ABLE Sexual Device Manual for Persons with Disabilities
This manual explains devices that people with physical disabilities can use when having sex. It was created by occupational therapists.
Positive Choices: Healthy Relationships, Sexuality, and Safe Boundaries for Secondary Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
This training program is about relationships, safety, and sexuality. It is for people with intellectual disabilities.
PossAbilities
This is training material to help people of all abilities create relationships and make safe, responsible choices about sexuality. There are both training manuals and PowerPoint slides available for sale.
Puberty Information for Parents
These are two page fact sheets that give parents of adolescents with disabilities information and advice about puberty. There are separate sheets for parents of boys and of girls.
Push Girls Reality TV Show
This TV show is about five women who have physical disabilities. It airs on the Sundance Channel and you can purchase episodes through itunes.
Reflections on Sterilization
This is a blog post that encourages parents to think carefully before sterilizing their son or daughter with disabilities.
Relationships after Traumatic Brain Injury
This Hot Topic Module consists of a suite of resources to help individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and their partners enjoy meaningful and fulfilling relationships.
Reproductive Health Care for Women with Disabilities
This is a powerpoint presentation on health care for women with disabilities. It is useful for doctors and health care professionals, and for women with disabilities.
Rolling Around in My Head
The personal blog of David Hingsburger, an author and leader in the field of disability for over 30 years. David lives in Toronto, Canada
Scarlet Road
This article and film is about how sex workers can help people with disabilities.
Secondary Conditions of Spinal Cord Injury: Health Education Video Series
A video series on health issues for people with spinal cord injury.
Sex and Disability
This online article gives advice on discussing disability while on a date.
Sexual Health and Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities & Autism
This is a PowerPoint presentation about healthy sexuality and people with intellectual disability. It also talks about ways to keep people safe from abuse.
Sexual Health Network
This site includes a section about sex and sexuality for people with disabilities. It has information, support, education, and resources.
Sexuality & Disability (Canadian Federation for Sexual Health)
This set of web pages talk about sexuality and people with disabilities.
Sexuality & Relationship Support for People With an Intellectual Disability:Policy to Practice
This Powerpoint presentation describes how service systems must support people with intellectual disabilities in expressing their sexuality. It is from a conference in Australia.
Sexuality and Disability (sponsored by the Canadian Federation for Sexual Health)
This website has basic information about sexuality and people with disabilities.
Sexuality and Disability Webliography: Developmental Disabilities
A web-based reference to help meet the sex education needs of individuals with disabilities.
Sexuality and Persons with Disabilities
This web page provides sexuality information for the parents of children, youth and young adults.
SHADE Consulting Ltd Sexual Health and Disability Education
This organization provides workshops and technical assistance to administrators, DSPs, parents, and support teams in the area of sexuality and people with disabilities.
Sheri & Paul
A short film about a couple who share their thoughts on love and marriage. Both people have disabilities.
Strong Love
A film about the life of two people who decide to get married. Both were born with Down syndrome and one of them is a World-class weight lifter
Succeeding through Autism DVD: A Video Presentation by Sean Barron
Sean Barron is a man who has autism and works as a journalist. In this DVD, he tells his story.
Susan's Sex Support Site
This is a website with information about sexuality and sex and people with disabilities. It includes information useful to both self-advocates, and to their allies.
Take Control: How to Stay Healthy and Safe from HIV and AIDS
Take Control: How to Stay Healthy and Safe from HIV and AIDS is a multi-media presentation for People with Developmental Disabilities.
Teach Me CD
A song about sexual abuse of a person with a developmental disability
The Relationship Series
This is an innovative DVD series on relationships for people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. Includes #1 - The Friendship Series, 3 parts; #2 - The Boyfriend/Girlfriend Series, 3 parts; #3 - The Sexuality Series, 3 parts.
Toward Intimacy: Women with Disabilities
This movie explains sexuality through the eyes of four women with disabilities.
TrueTube: Disability - Love & Disability
The video is about Alex and Sarah, a couple in a relationship. Sarah has a disability, Alex does not.
Under Cover Dick: A Guide For Teaching About Condom Use Through Video and Understanding
This training tells why condoms are important and shows how to put one on. There is a booklet and a video.
Untold Desires
This film gives a strong and clear message that the sexuality of people with disabilities is as diverse as that of everyone else. It can be purchased as a DVD.
WE CAN Stop Abuse: A Sexual Abuse Prevention Curriculum for Persons with Developmental Disabilities
An 8-session, interactive curriculum to teach sexual abuse prevention skills to people who have developmental disabilities. It includes a DVD.
We're Growing Up! DVD
This 12-minute DVD explains puberty.
We're Just Around the Corner
This DVD is about puberty and people with disabilities.
Who Wants to Live for a Million Years? HIV/AIDS Prevention for use by adults with developmental disabilities
Protecting oneself from HIV and AIDS is an ongoing challenge for anyone, and for people with disabilities, it can be especially challenging. This CD/ROM provides explicit prevention information and tools needed to help keep safe.
Women Living With Disabilities
This web site has many topics that are helpful for women with disabilities.
Yolk
A short film about a 15-year-old girl with Down syndrome and her interest in sex.
You, Your Body & Sex
This DVD is about relationships and sexuality. The ideas are easy to understand.
Organizations, Programs, and Projects
Disabled Dating- Dating4Disabled.com
Online community offers blogs, forums, dating and more. Aimed at facilitating social and romantic development in a supportive and understanding environment. Fun way to make new friends, and find a partner for life. Membership is free and non-committal.
Domestic Violence Services Program
This program helps people with disabilities who are being abused.
Microtraining DVDs (for therapists)
These DVDs teach therapists the best ways to help people who have disabilities. Topics include cultural diversity, sexuality, and disability etiquette.
People with Learning Disabilities and Same-Sex Relationships: Results of a study undertaken in Edinburgh 2004
This booklet is about people in same-sex relationships. It is written to self-advocates.
Scarlet Road
This article and film is about how sex workers can help people with disabilities.
Sexuality and Disability Consortium
This group teaches people about sexuality and disability. They are located in Chicago, Illinois.
SHADE Consulting Ltd Sexual Health and Disability Education
This organization provides workshops and technical assistance to administrators, DSPs, parents, and support teams in the area of sexuality and people with disabilities.
Online Forums
Disabled Dating- Dating4Disabled.com
Online community offers blogs, forums, dating and more. Aimed at facilitating social and romantic development in a supportive and understanding environment. Fun way to make new friends, and find a partner for life. Membership is free and non-committal.
Love Rolls On: Disability and Marriage
This is the web site of Megan and Barton Cutter. Married since 2004, Barton has a disability and Megan does not.
National Sexuality Resource Center's Sexuality and Disability website (San Francisco State University)
A website that talks about issues of disability and sexuality. It has many stories written by people with disabilities.
Other
Asperger's Syndrome and Sexuality: From Adolescence Through Adulthood
This book is about sexuality and people with Asperger's Syndrome.
Disabled Dating- Dating4Disabled.com
Online community offers blogs, forums, dating and more. Aimed at facilitating social and romantic development in a supportive and understanding environment. Fun way to make new friends, and find a partner for life. Membership is free and non-committal.
Human Reproduction and Childbirth DVD
This DVD is about the human reproduction system and giving birth.
Living Well on the Spectrum
This book has ideas for people on the autism spectrum to improve the quality of their lives.
SHADE Consulting Ltd Sexual Health and Disability Education
This organization provides workshops and technical assistance to administrators, DSPs, parents, and support teams in the area of sexuality and people with disabilities.
People Who Can Help
Bob Jones
I am an instructor in the two-year Disability and Community Support program at Red River College College. I have been involved over the last two years with a group of people conducting "retreats" under the general title; "Developing and Sustaining Lead...
Dave Hingsburger & Diverse City Press
Dave is a consultant in the area of sexuality and problematic behaviour. Diverse City Press is his publishing house specializing in these issues.


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