Sex Education for Visually Impaired Students
Jade T. Samillano
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SEX EDUCATION FOR VISION IMPAIRED STUDENT Sexual Education encompasses many aspects of life. It is needed by all human beings. As people grow, their needs for education about sexuality also grow. Sex education should be developmentally appropriate and continuous throughout the lifespan. The goals of sex education are to impart basic information, to teach skills necessary for sexual well being, and to encourage positive attitudes towards sexuality. But our society has been slow to acknowledge the need for sexuality education of the disabled. Most of us have the beliefs that persons with disabilities are asexual and that individuals with disabilities will be unable to cope with their sexuality. But we must know that all people have the right to be fully informed sexual beings. In our country sex education was already integrated. So since sex education was already integrated here in Dumaguete, teaching it to students who are visually impaired is important. First we must know what are the effects of vision impairment of the students in the development of society, must also know what are the strategies to be made in order for them to learn sex education and lastly what are the roles of the teachers and also the roles of parents in teaching this particular topic. Students with vision impairment have different effect in their societal development and why is it important to teach them. As what I have noticed, there where sex-role stereotyping for the teens who are visually impaired. For the girls they faced the stigma of being blind and female while the boys must have compete with society’s stereotype of being strong, independent and dominant male. The other effect of vision impairment is the limited access of information and it becomes a greatest barrier of the students to develop their sexual understanding. This is what happened to my friend who is visually impaired she has the difficulty in understanding the concept of privacy
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SEX EDUCATION FOR VISION IMPAIRED STUDENT Sexual Education encompasses many aspects of life. It is needed by all human beings. As people grow, their needs for education about sexuality also grow. Sex education should be developmentally appropriate and continuous throughout the lifespan. The goals of sex education are to impart basic information, to teach skills necessary for sexual well being, and to encourage positive attitudes towards sexuality. But our society has been slow to acknowledge the need for sexuality education of the disabled. Most of us have the beliefs that persons with disabilities are asexual and that individuals with disabilities will be unable to cope with their sexuality. But we must know that all people have the right to be fully informed sexual beings. In our country sex education was already integrated. So since sex education was already integrated here in Dumaguete, teaching it to students who are visually impaired is important. First we must know what are the effects of vision impairment of the students in the development of society, must also know what are the strategies to be made in order for them to learn sex education and lastly what are the roles of the teachers and also the roles of parents in teaching this particular topic. Students with vision impairment have different effect in their societal development and why is it important to teach them. As what I have noticed, there where sex-role stereotyping for the teens who are visually impaired. For the girls they faced the stigma of being blind and female while the boys must have compete with society’s stereotype of being strong, independent and dominant male. The other effect of vision impairment is the limited access of information and it becomes a greatest barrier of the students to develop their sexual understanding. This is what happened to my friend who is visually impaired she has the difficulty in understanding the concept of privacy