Landa Fox has extensive experience in training family members and community professionals about sexual health development focusing on making sexual health education inclusive and accessible to all. In this fascinating presentation, she shares the process of creating and modifying existing sexual health and relationship education, to the needs of a wide range of autistic individuals.
Landa’s areas of special interest within the area of sexual health education include: how to promote a culture of consent and body autonomy within autism intervention; creating inclusive, accurate, and accessible sexual health education that focuses on individual rights; and advocating for access to sexuality and sexual health for everyone.
In this presentation participants will learn about the following:
Exploration of developmental norms for sexual behaviors and knowledge.
Identification of knowledge and skills that may need to be explicitly taught to autistic learners, including concepts central to consent.
An overview of approaches for assessment and treatment of inappropriate sexual behaviors.
Discussion of the important intersection of neurodiversity and gender-diversity and how to support people who are LGBTQIA+
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