A three-year research project reveals that while some young people with learning difficulties have some knowledge of sex, they also had some serious misunderstandings. “Sex education is done in mainstream school, of course, but it’s pitched at a level which some young people with learning difficulties don’t understand,” says says Ruth Garbutt, who led the research. (Courtesy: iStockphoto)
U. LEEDS (UK)—Young people with learning difficulties are more integrated into society than ever before, but a lack of basic sex education often leaves them embarrassed, vulnerable, and confused, according to a recent study. Continue…
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Communication is the best medicine
LEEDS (UK)—Efforts to improve communication between patients, family doctors, and specialists can have a crucial impact on patients—in some instances working as effectively as drugs. (more…)
