2017, Number 2
Educational proposal to raise levels of knowledge about sexuality in adolescents Down syndrome
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ABSTRACT
Recent studies demonstrate the importance of educating sexuality in patients with Down syndrome since infancy, in order to respond to the sexual curiosities of the stage, as well as prepare them to reach adulthood. Based on this assertion, the present research had as general objective to determine the level of knowledge of the adolescents with Down syndromes in relation to the sexuality and to create a program of educational intervention, in order to propitiate them a healthy sexuality; six teenagers between 10 and 15 years of age, belonging to the Francisco Vicente Aguilera special school in the Manzanillo municipality of the Granma province were chosen. The theoretical references were based on a humanist - developmental conception and on the theory of positive reinforcement. The strategy was based on the interrelated work of adolescents with Down syndrome. It was based on the educational needs of the diagnosis, the program was designed with its objectives, enabled these adolescents to consolidate their sexual identity, identified according to their sex, included the genitals in their body schema, naming them, fostered related hygiene habits With the care of the body and stimulated the affective relations through the role plays. It is recommended to expand this research, with follow-up until adulthood and bring to the community a strategy that sensitizes its members with the sexuality of Down syndrome.REFERENCES
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