Body Autonomy for Disabled People: Consent, Choice, and Rights
Body autonomy for disabled people means having meaningful control over decisions involving touch, healthcare, sexuality, reproduction, privacy, and personal assistance.
Supported Decision-Making: Autonomy, Consent, and Accessible Choice
Supported decision-making helps people understand information, consider options, communicate preferences, and make their own choices with appropriate assistance.
Capacity to Consent: Understanding, Choice, and Sexual Autonomy
Capacity to consent is the ability to understand relevant information, make a voluntary decision, and communicate agreement or refusal in a particular situation.
Intellectual Disability and Sexuality: Consent, Relationships, and Health
Intellectual disability and sexuality explores consent, relationships, sexual health, identity, accessible education, safeguarding, and sexual autonomy.
Age-Appropriate Sex Education: Development, Health, and Consent
Age-appropriate sex education presents accurate sexuality information at a level suited to a learner’s age, development, maturity, and understanding.
Trauma-Informed Sex Education: Safety, Consent, and Support
Trauma-informed sex education teaches sexuality and sexual health with awareness of trauma, emphasizing safety, choice, consent, dignity, and respectful participation.
Safeguarding: Protection From Abuse, Exploitation, and Harm
Safeguarding involves preventing and responding to abuse, exploitation, neglect, and other harms while protecting safety, dignity, and autonomy.
Bystander Intervention: Preventing Sexual Harm Through Safe Action
Bystander intervention means taking safe, appropriate action when witnessing possible harassment, coercion, sexual violence, or another harmful situation.
Mandatory Reporting: Abuse, Confidentiality, and Legal Duties
Mandatory reporting requires certain professionals to report specified suspected abuse or harm, which can create legal limits on confidentiality.
Grooming: Meaning, Warning Signs, Online Risks, and Abuse Prevention
Grooming is a pattern of building trust, access, secrecy, or control to prepare someone for exploitation or abuse.