Books Children and Adolescents on Sexual Health
Resources for Children and Adolescents and Sexual Health Note: This is not a complete list of all the books and resources, but rather a good starting point. Please make sure, as a parent, that you read the book or visit the website first before introducing information to your children, regardless of their ages. Here is a general guideline on age-appropriate sex education to children…but I do want to say that each child is different, so... Read More
Advocacy for Teen Sexual Health
I’ve mentioned the excellent resource of “Sex Etc.” in a previous blog post. Sex Etc. is an award-winning national magazine and website on sexual health that is written by teens, for teens. It’s part of the Center for Applied Psychology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. http://answer.rutgers.edu/ Answer is a national organization dedicated to providing and promoting comprehensive sexuality education to young... Read More
Parent Resources Teenagers, Disabilities, and Sexual Health Information
Sex Education for Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: http://www.steegepublications.com/pages/publications.html Bibliograpy “Teens with Disabilities” Sexual Health Information: 1. Allen, John D. 2003. Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People With Developmental Disabilities and Mental Retardation: Stories of the Rainbow Support Group (Hardcover).Routledge. 2. Anderson, Orieda & Luert, Jeniffer. 2000. Doing... Read More
Helpful Teenager Sexual Health Information
Another great resource for kids of all ages is: www.kidshealth.org It is a great website for teens and sexual health information, the link directly to that topic would be: http://kidshealth.org/en/teens/sexual-health/ Read More
Teenager-friendly websites
http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/ http://sexetc.org/# More for parents but the “Netflix of sex education” click: http://www.sexsmartfilms.com/ (if teenagers are going to receive sex information, I recommend that it be accurate and educational as opposed to plain porn which is what most end up seeing instead of say an educational documentary from the above website) Read More
