Advancing Sexual Self-Advocacy for People with Disabilities
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3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. ET
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Many people with disabilities experience profound marginalization in multiple human rights domains, including disparities in sexual and reproductive health. This webinar will address the rights to sexual citizenship of people with disabilities and ways to advance sexual self-advocacy as a best-practice strategy to facilitate empowerment among people with disabilities. Findings from an exploratory study that examined how people with intellectual and developmental disabilities define and experience the concept of sexual self-advocacy will be discussed.
A Webinar from AUCD's Sexual Health Special Interest Group (SIG)
Resources:
Sexual Self-Advocacy Video - Self-advocates gathered at the UIC Institute on Disability and Human Development to talk about sexual self-advocacy and their sexual rights. This video was produced by Linda Sandman and Katie Frank to be used in a curriculum on sexuality education for parents of adolescents with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Camera and editing work was completed by Alyson Patsavas.
Presenters:
Katie Arnold is Director of Community Education for the Institute on Disability and Human Development and Co-Director of the National Resource Center on Family Support for the Family Support Research and Training Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She also serves as the Executive Director of the Sibling Leadership Network, a national nonprofit dedicated to providing siblings of individuals with disabilities the information and support to advocate with their brothers and sisters to promote issues important to them and their entire families. In her work, Ms. Arnold educates and conducts research on various topics including self-directed supports, supporting families, and relationships and sexuality for people with disabilities.
Tia Nelis is the Self-Advocacy Specialist at the Institute on Disability and Human Development (IDHD) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is also the current president of Self-Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE) the national self-advocacy organization. Tia was instrumental in creating the Self-Advocate discipline in the Illinois LEND program and is also a founding member of the Sexuality and Disability Consortium at IDHD.
Linda Sandman is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Institute on Disability and Human Development (IDHD) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Linda has over 25 years of clinical experience working with adults with disabilities, including mental health, intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID/DD). She is the Director of Clinical Services for the Developmental Disabilities Family Clinics, which provides comprehensive diagnostic and clinical services for children through adults with ID/DD. In addition, Linda is a founding member of the Sexuality and Disability Consortium at IDHD.
Please Note:
- There is NO cost for this webinar.
- CEUs are not offered for this webinar.
- For disability accommodations email Anna Costalas or call 301-588-8252 a minimum of five days in advance.
- This webinar will be archived.
