What, When and How to Learn About Sex: The Narratives of Students With

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200824.126How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Disability, health, sex education, youth, well-being

Abstract

Sex education program among youth with disabilities is pertinent to their overall physical, emotional, health and well-being. However, due to its sensitivity and taboo, the topic is rarely addressed in the Malaysian context. The aim of this study is to explore the understanding about sex among disabled youth and how teaching sex education among disabled students can be improved. To obtain meaningful data, a qualitative interview was conducted. Six students, ages from 20-27 years old, with various disabilities including impaired vision, impaired hearing, physical disability and autistic were recruited via the snowball sampling technique. Thematic analysis was employed to analyze data. The results show that all participants agree that sex education is important. They believed that sex education is essential as a tool for prevention from sex-related diseases and ensure their sexual safety. It appeared that the participants prefer health personnel and disabled educators Disabilities to deliver the subject in a more casual manner and on one-to-one basis. The participants also reported that disable educators will make them more confident to communicate and share their sexual concerns and they feel more cared. Finally, learning about sex through the covert way has led to some confusion. Therefore, parents, teachers and health personnel should provide appropriate avenue, knowledge and resources to discuss about sex with disabled children similar to their non-disabled friends.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nurazzura Mohamad Diah
AU  - Suhaiza Samsudin
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/25
TI  - What, When and How to Learn About Sex: The Narratives of Students With
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Progress in Social Science, Humanities and Education Research Symposium (PSSHERS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 533
EP  - 537
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200824.126
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200824.126
ID  - Diah2020
ER  -