OBJECTIVES: Adolescence / Transition and DBP Wrap-up
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- Reflect on how you can support positive self and sexuality identity in teens with disabilities
- Reflect on how you can help parents appropriately support their teens as they navigate this transition period
- Be aware of resources to help with transitioning medical care from the pediatric to adult setting and issues of legal guardianship
- Think about societal implications for individuals with disabilities
Legend
Video
Reading
Module
**Required Learning
Individual Learning
- Adolescence and Transition to Adult Care (Day 27 & 28)
- Identity and Sexuality
- Overview of Sexual Development in Childhood — Developing a healthy sexuality is a key developmental milestone for all children and adolescents and depends on acquiring information and forming attitudes, beliefs, and values about consent, sexual orientation, gender identity, relationships, and intimacy over the course of their childhood. This will find a comment bubble where we have added “Red Flags” for sexual abuse
- Storytime: Disability, Dating, Relationships, and Sex — 8 minute video
- **Sexuality and Disability in Adolescents — 11 pages
- Sexuality and Disability: Forging Identity in a World That Leaves You Out — 22 minute TEDxYale video
- Thoughts on Becoming a Parent as an Adult with an Intellectual Disability — Listen or read the transcript for the interview with Ivanova, who is one of the UW LEND program self-advocate faculty members
- Adolescent Transition to Adulthood
- **Informing Families: Navigating Your Way 14-21 — 15 minute video and resource PDF
- UW Adolescent Health Transition Project
- Adolescence and Society
- Impairment versus Disability: My Body Doesn’t Disable Me, Society Does — 5 minute video
- From Disability to Criminality: Disability and the Criminal Justice System — ~2 pages / infographic
- Optional Resources
- **Guided Learning Session: Adolescent Medical, Educational, and Community Transition with Amy Carlsen, RN
- Recording — 40 minute video
- PowerPoint
- Identity and Sexuality