Relationships & Intimacy

Links to resources:

• Real Talk: Website for people with disabilities and their supporters about relationships, intimacy, and sexual health:

  • • https://www.real-talk.org/

• NADSP Frontline Initiative – “Supporting Healthy Relationships”

  • • Includes 14 articles about relationships, including “Advocating for the people you support in their relationships with their family.”

    • https://nadsp.org/frontline-initiative-supporting-healthy-relationships/

• Self-advocacy: For people with disabilities: resources for self-advocacy

  • • https://www.sabeusa.org/resources/

• For DSPs: perspectives on effectively supporting individuals with disabilities by advocating for them and their issues through the legislative process.

  • • https://ici.umn.edu/products/513

• Amaze: simple animated sex ed videos and other information for young people.

  • • https://amaze.org/

• Sexuality and Disability: website for women and others with disabilities

  • • https://sexualityanddisability.org/

• Sex Ed for people on the autism spectrum and with developmental disabilities

  • • https://asdsexed.org/2019/11/18/sex-education-for-individuals-with-i-dd/

• “An Advocate’s Guide to Relationships, Romance, Sexuality, and Sexual health,” This guide, written by disability self-advocate, offers perspectives about navigating through important experiences, such as dating, sex, marriage, and much more as a person with a disability.

  • • https://odpc.ucsf.edu/advocacy/sexuality-sexual-health/our-sexuality-our-health-a-disabled-advocates-guide-to

• Click for many more resources

Professional Development:

• Shift Education: sex ed information and training programs for educators and caregivers of diverse learners.

  • • https://shift-education.com/

• Elevatus Training: variety of training programs and sex ed curriculum

  • • https://www.elevatustraining.com/