Abstract
This study investigated the effect of a sex education program on the socio-sexual knowledge and attitude of mildly intellectually handicapped adults.The subjects were 83 intellectually handicapped adults with I.Q.’s between 50 and 80, and aged between 16W and 52. Thirty-nine of these lived in residential institutions for the intellectually handicapped and forty-four lived in placed other than residential care.The experimental intervention was a sex education program given by the Family Planning Association, Sydney Branch. The pre and post test used was the Socio-Sexual Knowledge and Attitude Test. Variables examined included age, I.Q., sex and residence of participants. A group who had not participated in the sex education program acted as controls.The findings revealed that 1) there is no difference in initial knowledge between the sexes, 2) community based subjects know more initially than institutionalised subjects and this superiority remains when the effects of the community based subjects higher ave...
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