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Sexuality as a Perceived Hazard in the Lives of Adults with Learning Difficulties

BOB HEYMAN
Pages 139-156 | Received 01 Sep 2001, Published online: 16 Jul 2010

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Ioanna Karellou. (2017) “It Is Only Natural….”: Attitudes of Young People With Intellectual Disabilities Toward Sexuality in Greece. Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities 10:3, pages 217-236.
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Poul Rohleder. (2010) Educators' ambivalence and managing anxiety in providing sex education for people with learning disabilities. Psychodynamic Practice 16:2, pages 165-182.
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BOB HUDSON. (2003) From Adolescence to Young Adulthood: The partnership challenge for learning disability services in England. Disability & Society 18:3, pages 259-276.
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Linliang Qian. (2017) “Dangerous Adolescence”: Sexuality and Disability of Institutionalized Children in a Chinese Orphanage. Sexuality and Disability 35:4, pages 445-459.
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Rebecca Fish. (2016) ‘They’ve said I’m vulnerable with men’: Doing sexuality on locked wards. Sexualities 19:5-6, pages 641-658.
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Elizabeth Rushbrooke, Craig D. Murray & Samantha Townsend. (2014) What difficulties are experienced by caregivers in relation to the sexuality of people with intellectual disabilities? A qualitative meta-synthesis. Research in Developmental Disabilities 35:4, pages 871-886.
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Stuart Todd. (2009) Learning to take the world seriously. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities 13:3, pages 221-238.
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David Abbott & Jan Burns. (2007) What’s love got to do with it?: Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, and bisexual people with intellectual disabilities in the united kingdom and views of the staff who support them. Sexuality Research and Social Policy 4:1, pages 27-39.
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Paul Wheeler. (2007) ‘I Count Myself as Normal, Well, not Normal, but Normal Enough’ Men with Learning Disabilities Tell their Stories about Sexuality and Sexual Identity. Tizard Learning Disability Review 12:1, pages 16-27.
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Susan Douglas-Scott. 2004. Young People and Sexual Health. Young People and Sexual Health 139 154 .
Paul Wheeler. (2003) Criminal Law, Sexuality and Men and Women with Learning Disabilities: Protection v. Empowerment. Tizard Learning Disability Review 8:3, pages 21-29.
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Roy McConkey & Marisa Smyth. (2006) Parental perceptions of risks with older teenagers who have severe learning difficulties contrasted with the young people's views and experiences. Children & Society 17:1, pages 18-31.
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Michelle McCarthy. 2002. Health of Women with Intellectual Disabilities. Health of Women with Intellectual Disabilities 90 102 .
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Jackie Rodgers. (2001) Pain, shame, blood, and doctors. Women's Studies International Forum 24:5, pages 523-539.
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Paul N Wheeler. (2001) Sexuality: meaning and relevance to learning disability nurses. British Journal of Nursing 10:14, pages 920-927.
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Vicki A. Lumley & Joseph R. Scotti. (2016) Supporting the Sexuality of Adults with Mental Retardation. Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions 3:2, pages 109-119.
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