Sexual Health & Wellbeing Disability Visual Impairment | Visual Impairment |
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Blindness or visual impairments do not have a direct effect on sexual development, or an individual's wish to pursue their sexual experiences. What may be necessary is additional support to access relevant and appropriate information, education and services.
Good quality, appropriate sexual health information and education should be available to all children, young people and adults. Nearly all forms of information around sexual health are visually based. Much information is gleaned by watching other peoples behaviour, looking at pictures, reading magazines or watching television. Formal and informal education should provide opportunities to think about and discuss the enormous amount and complex nature of information by putting it into context and perspective. Ideally, work of this nature also needs to explore the skills necessary to help people filter the messages.
It can sometimes be difficult for blind or visually impaired people to access up to date and comprehensive information. However, it is possible to convert most written information into Braille or to have it recorded into audio format. This is something that, ideally, should be built into any resource development.
The Royal National Institute for the Blind For more information go to : www.rnib.org.uk or telephone the helpline on : 0303 123 9999 |
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| Last Updated ( Friday, 25 June 2010 ) |
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