Sexuality: Your Sons and Daughters With Intellectual Disabilities (Paperback)

by Karin Melberg Schwier (Author), David Hingsburger (Author)

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Product Description
Parents have a key role in making sure their child develops healthy sexuality, that sense of self and confidence that helps make us all well-adjusted and strong individuals. In this touching and lively book, you'll learn how to interact with your children - no matter their age or ability - in a way that increases self-esteem, encourages appropriate behavior, empowers them to recognize and respond to abuse, and enables them to develop life long relationships. Parents share with you the joys and challenges of raising a child with an intellectual disability as they offer you helpful advice and practical strategies. And you'll hear individuals with intellectual disabilities explain what's important to them. Let authors Karin Melberg Schwier and Dave Hingsburger show you, in this inspiring book, how to accomplish one of the most significant tasks every parent faces - raising a proud and confident son or daughter.

About the Author
Karin Melberg Schwier, is an author and illustrator whose most noted works are about people with intellectual disabilities. She has received awards for her writing from the Canadian Association for Community Living (CACL), the Council for Exceptional Children, and the National Down Syndrome Congress, among others. Some of her most recent publications include the illustrated children's book Idea Man (Diverse City Press) winner of the Saskatchewan Writer's Guild children's literature award; Couples with Intellectual Disabilities Talk About Living and Loving (Woodbine House, 1994), winner of the CACL award in its first year of release and, in 1995, winner of the Joan Kershaw Publications Award from the Canadian Council for Exceptional Children.

She produces a provincial magazine, Dialect, for the Saskatchewan Association for Community Living, an advocacy organization for people with intellectual disabilities. She is a member of the national editorial board of entourage, a magazine published by the CACL. She is working on her first novel, in which the main character has an intellectual disability.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 223 pages
• Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company; 1 edition (February 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557664285
• ISBN-13: 978-1557664280
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #319,403 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The title is misleading, August 6, 2002

By A Customer

The title of the book and its description here made me think the book would be relevant to all cognitive disabilities. However, the bulk of the book is about Down syndrome. The anecdotes are about people with Down syndrome and information about reproduction, etc. is specific to Down syndrome. Also, although the anecdotes kind of give you a warm fuzzy feeling, there is not a whole lot of practical information about teaching your child anything related to sexuality, dating, the birds and the bees, etc.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, practical, funny, March 22, 2000

By A Customer

This book is a gem. The combined efforts of Melberg Schwier and Hingsburger have produced a lively resource that parents of a son or daughter at any age or with any kind of disability will treasure. It contains not only practical information about sexuality and sexual development, but is humourous and moving. The first-person accounts by parents and by people with disabilities sprinkled throughout the book are a creative way for parents to share ideas, strategies, worries with one another. The stories of people with disabilities give us all some hope for humanity. An excellent effort and a treasure to have.