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Sexual education for children in older school age with Autism Spectrum Disorder
BLAŽKOVÁ, Renata
Sexuality and sexual needs are very important part of life of every human. There is necessary to treat every sensitive aspects of sexual disposition for suitable development of these needs the best way is sex education in the correct form. For many parents, there is a big problem to explain this topic to their children at the right time, by the correct form and appropriately at all. This problem is so much complicated for parents of children with Autism spectrum disorder. Their children have a specific disability which make them impossible to analyse common life situation correctly, make them impossible to reveal the complex of human relationships and they can´t became a part of it. Discussing all of these facts, parents of these children comes into the desperate situation in puberty period and they don´t know what they should do. The thesis Sex education of children with Autism spectrum disorder in the older school age choose like a target group the children with this diagnosis in puberty period and it tries to analyse children´s problems (even their parent´s problems) in this develomental period. The aim of the thesis is finding out the problems of these children in the sexual area and finding out about awareness of their parents in this area. Another aim is comparing sex education in the family and sex education in the educational institution. The theoretical part summarizes knowledge of actual literature about this topic. In the first chapter, the thesis dedicates the older school age topic develomental specifics for children in this period especially. The second chapter dedicates knowledge about Autism spectrum disorder definition of problem area of these individuals, dividing of different kinds of this disability, its etiology and basic educational systems. The last chapter deal with the topic of sexuality and its brief development; it pursue also sex education and its specifics in the work with individuals with Autism spectrum disorder in the puberty period. The empirical part is based on research leading by semi-structured interview which are based on qualitative approach. The outline of these interview is 7 range of topics: Puberty; Private x public; Problem behaviour; Masturbation, pollutions, menstruation; Relationships; Sex educatoin in the school; Awareness. I drow up the questionnaire and made interviews with seven parents of children with Autism spectrum disorder in the older school age. Children of two respondents have diagnosis Asperger´s Syndrom, the rest of the children have autism with mental retardation in combination. In the chapter Results, I interpret acquired information which are compared between the children with intelect in variation of normal and with children with mental retardation. Chapter Discussion I summarize and compare knowledge.
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