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Article: Lack of sex education puts disabled at risk
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- October 6, 2009
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YOUNG PEOPLE with intellectual and physical disabilities are
being put at risk by society's reluctance to provide them with sex
education, a conference will hear today.
Sligo-based MA student and social researcher Jessica Mannion said
research she had conducted with 22 young adults confirmed that they
were being denied information and choices about a range of lifestyle
issues, because they had a disability.
Ms Mannion will tell the National Disability Authority's annual
conference which takes place at Croke Park today, that people with
disabilities are denied choices about basic everyday issues such as
where they eat, study or socialise with friends.
"Many of the things these young people ...