Disseminating Resources Online for Teaching Sex Education to People with Developmental Disabilities

Sex education is important for individuals with developmental disabilities; however, it is difficult for educators to find resources to support them when teaching sex education. A website, asdsexed.org, was developed to disseminate sex education resources. Using analytic data from the website we exp...

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Published inSexuality and disability Vol. 39; no. 4; pp. 751 - 760
Main Authors Curtiss, Sarah L., Stoffers, Melissa
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer US 01.12.2021
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Aging
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Biological organs
Community and Environmental Psychology
Developmental disabilities
Developmentally disabled people
Dissemination
Distance learning
Original Paper
People with disabilities
Privacy
Psychology
Rehabilitation Medicine
Search engines
Sex education
Sexual Behavior
Teaching
Urology
Visitors
Websites
Sex education
Autism
United States
Dissemination
Developmental disabilities
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Summary:Sex education is important for individuals with developmental disabilities; however, it is difficult for educators to find resources to support them when teaching sex education. A website, asdsexed.org, was developed to disseminate sex education resources. Using analytic data from the website we explored how dissemination occurs online. We identified (1) how visitors were referred to the website; (2) what search terms were used to look for sex education resources; (3) what content was most frequently viewed; and (4) how visitors engaged with the content. Search engines were the top referrer. Variations on the phrase “body parts” were the most frequently recorded terms. Free lesson plans were the most viewed content. Privacy social stories were the most engaged with content. Online dissemination was a complex undertaking but did allow for potential sex educators to be connected with research-based resources.
ISSN:0146-1044
1573-6717
DOI:10.1007/s11195-021-09703-1