Catalogue Number
NMLH.2024.34.3
Object Name
booklet
Title
âSafe Sex and Contraception in Easy Words and Pictures'
Place
UK
People
CHANGE (Disabled Peoples' Organisation)
Description
A booklet with an orange and white cover. On it is an illustration of contraceptive impliments including condoms, femidoms, a strip of contraceptive pills, implants, and an IUD. Above the illustration is the booklet title 'Safe Sex and Contraception' and below the illustration 'in easy words and pictures'.
This booklet was created to provide information about both how to have safer sex (i.e. sex with limited risks of sexually transmitted infections) to people with learning disabilities in an 'easy read' format. It includes information about who can offer support if you do contract an infection and where to get safer sex supplies like condoms, and more. The booklet was created by CHANGE 'a national organisation led by disabled people that campaigns for equal rights for people with learning disabilities'. Providing accessible information about sex, sexuality and relationships for people with learning disabilities is important, as due to ableist discrimination about their abilities to live adult lives, many people with learning disabilities are not offered personal relationship and sex education in schools, or by parents. This leaves disabled people more vulnerable to abuse, coersive control and sexual violence. Statistically, people with learning disabilities are one of the most impacted
groups represented as victims of sexual violence. Empowering, accessible educational materials like this booklet help to prevent victimisation in the future.
Easy read information is typically created for people with learning disabilities, and disabled people with other information processing differences. To class as easy read, text should be in short sentences, images should sit alongside the text to provide contextual information, and complex terms should be simplified or explained.
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