ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the experiences of the author whose provides tools and resources for teaching sex education to individuals with developmental disabilities. While the author loved teaching sex education in the general classroom, when she taught sex education in the special education classroom she started to realize the necessity of providing all students with clear language and direct information about sexuality and sexual health. The students were very interested in understanding the rules, spoken and unspoken, governing the behaviors they saw around them. The students were between the ages of 11 and 14 years old, and by the end of the trimester, it seemed that fully half of them had already experienced some type of unwanted sexual touching or assault. Although comprehensive data on this topic is severely lacking, the statistics indicated that the rate of sexual assault for individuals with developmental disabilities is far higher than for individuals without those disabilities.
