Research on Adolescent Sexuality Should Be Inclusive of Disability

Abstract

significant differences in their sexual behaviors. The challenge for researchers is to understand how these differences relate to sexual health outcomes across the early life course, by gender, and by sexual orientation. The population data to examine these questions is available, but underutilized. This knowledge is essential for informing disability-specific sexual education for adolescents, interventions to decrease stigma among providers, and ideally, to encourage more inclusive sexual health practices.

“The Disabled Community Is Still Waiting for Equality”: What do Users Have to say About Sexual Reproductive Health of Persons With Disabilities in Online News Comments

“…Lack of information access was also discussed in the online comments. Literature shows that there is a need for sexual health information to be inclusive of PWDs (Shandra, 2018). Our findings suggested that PWDs have limited access to information regarding sexual reproductive health.…”

“…Also, most studies have looked at sexual reproductive health regarding people without disabilities. Shandra (2018) argued that research has neglected the sexual reproductive health of PWDs. In addition, the majority of past studies have focused on preexisting images that the public has about PWDs (Farnall and Smith, 1999;Zhang and Haller, 2013).…”