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Puberty Education for Students with Special Needs

Student Video/Teaching Guide/Student Booklets

Now Available!

Like all children, students with developmental disabilities grow into adolescence with physically maturing bodies and a host of emerging social and sexual feelings and needs. Before these changes begin it is important to provide factual information in a positive and constructive way that is both clear and developmentally appropriate.

 

Two new kits from Marsh Media help address sexuality education in accordance with recommendations from the Sex Information and Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS), with focus on:

  • Facts, data and information
  • Feelings
  • Skills to communicate effectively and to make responsible decisions

A Girl’s Guide to Growing Up and A Boy’s Guide to Growing Up are designed for children with mild to moderate disabilities. These reassuring titles are clear, practical and positive and are intended for the following special populations:

Students with:

  • Developmental disabilities or delays
  • Intrusive behavior or mental illness
  • Down Syndrome
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder, including Asperger’s Syndrome
  • Learning disabilities
  • Behavioral disabilities
  • Communicative disorders

Each comprehensive kit has been developed in close collaboration with school nurses and curriculum consultants. A concise five-chapter format introduces the following important topics:

  • External anatomy
  • Physical and emotional changes of puberty
  • Health
  • Hygiene
  • Privacy and safety

 

Each component part conforms to the five-chapter format, reinforcing information and skills, and allowing for instructional breaks and review.

Kit components include:

  • An instructional video. Calmly reassuring and upbeat, each video presents concrete, gender-specific facts about adolescent growth and development. Bob Walkenhorst’s original music adds cheer to the specially uncomplicated narration. The visuals include live-action children ingeniously framed to correlate with colorful and clear illustrations.
  • A comprehensive teaching guide. Organized to parallel the chapter format of the video, the teaching guide includes complete lesson plans, 13 reproducible worksheets and a detailed bibliography for teachers and parents. Teaching guides are manageable and convenient for a variety of educational settings, suitable for a dedicated classroom of children with special needs, or as a whole school resource.
  • Student booklets. Packaged in handy packs of 10, these practical, colorful booklets are designed with student needs in mind. Complementing the instructional video, the gender-specific booklets match the information and illustrations shown in each video. Particularly useful for review, the booklets provide an essential take-home resource to be shared with parents.

For ordering information, please check our Health and Guidance section.