hi my 11 year old is having trouble with learning about sex education . He does not want to learn about it and thinks it is gross. Are there any books or sites that can help an autistic child learn this sensitively ?
hi my 11 year old is having trouble with learning about sex education . He does not want to learn about it and thinks it is gross. Are there any books or sites that can help an autistic child learn this sensitively ?
I've just remembered that for the formal sex education lesson. And there was only one. One hour lesson. The boys and girls were separated. There were no girls present when we boys were "not taught" about sex.
It was a "*** up"!
Sounds like sex ed in my school girls looked embarrassed/ bored and it was a massive joke to most of the boys!
But what we learned in biology was different I think because it wasn't discussed we had a text book and learnt not sat giving people a chance to be silly!
I still remember my first formal sex education lesson.
I learnt nothing.
But some of the other boys in the class clearly knew much more, the questions they asked the woman teacher were very clever and pointed. But she never got to the point. Just waffled around the subject.
Or he's an 11 year old that thinks it's gross!
Your son is refusing to be indoctrinated by the pessimistic education system, which falsely assumes all underage boys are potential rapists.
The first parts covered in secondary science are usually quite basic. I would suggest finding out from his teacher exactly what he is expected to learn about to comply with curriculum and aim for the most basic and generalised coverage of it. Failing that ask the teacher/ senco how they want it addressed sometimes the senco can have some strategies that work