Developing a policy for sexual health education for children and young people with Autism Spectrum Disorders and learning disabilities

Linn Moor School provides care and education for 22 children with severe and challenging behaviour. Around 80 percent of these children have a diagnosis on the Autistic Spectrum and all the students have some form of learning disabilities. Due to these difficulties, providing sexual health education has been a challenge and there has never been a whole school approach. Aspects of sexual health education have only been taught when a crisis has arisen for individual students