The Birds, Bees, and Special Needs: Making Evidence-Based Sex Education Accessible for Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities

This study demonstrates the use of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), an educational framework, guidelines, and checklist tools (Eagleton, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Salem Press, Ipswich,2015; Center for Applied Special Technology, UDL curriculum self-check 2011 (updated 2011),2011.http://udlselfcheck.cast.org/resources.php) to increase accessibility in HIPTeens, an evidence-based sexual risk reduction intervention (Morrison-Beedy et al. in J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care 13(1):21 –27,2002; Res Nurs Health 28(1):3 –15,2005; AIDS Behav 10(5):541,2006; J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care 21(2):153 –161,2010; West J Nurs Res 33(5):690 –711,2011; J Adolesc Health 52(3):314 –321,2013; J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care 28(6):877 –887,2017). As a result, supplemental curriculum components were developed with UDLguided technology use recommendations. A UDL-integrated evidence-based sexual risk reduction intervention could increase accessibility and, with additional research, could help inform inclusive policy.
Source: Sexuality and Disability - Category: Disability Source Type: research