The first of our two workshops on sexuality was held on Wednesday at Spring Common School. It was well attended and useful, and really good fun. The course is about the sexual development of children with special needs, how to cope and how to help. The objective of the first session was to provide a framework for discussion so that issues of interest to the group could be covered in more detail at next Wednesday's session.
The ice breaker was a lot of fun and I think we all learned a few new slang words and euphemisms for bits of our bodies and the things we do with them, given half a chance.
We learned about sexual behaviour and the law, sexuality and autism, normal sexual development and we found time to follow up a few issues raised by the Forum.
Mike O'Sullivan and his team brought along quite a few props and leaflets to help. We were all quite intrigued with the two anatomically correct dolls "Rosie and Jim".
"Fancy a Danish Roll"? .."No thanks, I'm watching the telly"
