Abstract

MAIA, Ana Cláudia Bortolozzi. Reflections about sexual education of disability person. Rev. bras. educ. espec. [online]. 2001, vol.07, n.01, pp.35-46. ISSN 1413-6538.

The sexuality is intrinsical for all human being and it manifestation doesn’t depend by the presence or not of disabilites. Recently, the sexual education of disabled person, has been aim of reflection in Especial Education, essentialy for some reaschers people deserving for alternatives actions to sexual orientation more appropriate, pertinent and ethics. Commonly, the family, the professionals and the teachers, innocently, ungratefulness or even though for unpreparedness, treat the sexuality in agreement with theirs faiths, preconceptions and distorted ideas, attributing to the deficiency a sexuality with limitations or with exaggerations. The possible elaborations of sexual orientation programs would demand preliminary an investigation about the conceptions that the educators have concerning the disabled people's sexuality. That would make possible methodological increments (of content and of strategies) to consolidate future proposed of educational action to the sexuality of the deficient, in spite of any condition of the deficiency and of its possible social limitation.

Keywords : Sexuality; Disabilite; Especial Education.

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