Sexuality: Your Sons and Daughters With Intellectual Disabilities
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Book Description
Parents have a key role in making sure their child develops healthy sexuality, that sense of self and confidence that helps make us all well-adjusted and strong individuals. In this touching and lively book, you'll learn how to interact with your children - no matter their age or ability - in a way that increases self-esteem, encourages appropriate behavior, empowers them to recognize and respond to abuse, and enables them to develop life long relationships. Parents share with you the joys and challenges of raising a child with an intellectual disability as they offer you helpful advice and practical strategies. And you'll hear individuals with intellectual disabilities explain what's important to them. Let authors Karin Melberg Schwier and Dave Hingsburger show you, in this inspiring book, how to accomplish one of the most significant tasks every parent faces - raising a proud and confident son or daughter.
About the Author
Karin Melberg Schwier, is an author and illustrator whose most noted works are about people with intellectual disabilities. She has received awards for her writing from the Canadian Association for Community Living (CACL), the Council for Exceptional Children, and the National Down Syndrome Congress, among others. Some of her most recent publications include the illustrated children's book Idea Man (Diverse City Press) winner of the Saskatchewan Writer's Guild children's literature award; Couples with Intellectual Disabilities Talk About Living and Loving (Woodbine House, 1994), winner of the CACL award in its first year of release and, in 1995, winner of the Joan Kershaw Publications Award from the Canadian Council for Exceptional Children.
She produces a provincial magazine, Dialect, for the Saskatchewan Association for Community Living, an advocacy organization for people with intellectual disabilities. She is a member of the national editorial board of entourage, a magazine published by the CACL. She is working on her first novel, in which the main character has an intellectual disability.
Sexuality: Your Sons and Daughters With Intellectual Disabilities
Sexuality: Your Sons and Daughters With Intellectual Disabilities,Karin Melberg Schwier,David Hingsburger,Brookes Publishing Company,1557664285,Child Care/Parenting,Children with Special Needs,Family & Relationships,Family & Relationships / Children with Special Needs,Family / Parenting / Childbirth,Life Stages - Adolescence - Sexuality,Parenting - General,Self-esteem in children,Sex Relations,Sex instruction for children w,Sex instruction for children with mental disabilities,Sex instruction for people wit,Sex instruction for people with mental disabilities,Sexuality,Social skills,Sociology Of The Mentally And Physically Challenged,Study and teaching
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