PUBERTY EDUCATION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

There is a male and female version of our puberty program for young people with special needs.

This puberty program, tailored to students with special needs, focuses on the physical and emotional changes that are a part of growing up. The program addresses personal care and hygiene skills related to puberty, such as spontaneous erections and ejaculations for male program and menstruation for female program.
It teaches students to identify appropriate adults with whom they might discuss these issues, how to distinguish between appropriate public and private behavior and safe and unsafe touch.

This is a 60-minute program.

Watch an overview of this program:

SCHEDULE

Program Goals:

Recognize physical and emotional changes

Demonstrate related personal care and hygiene skills

Determine appropriate adults with whom they might discuss changes

Develop awareness of appropriate public v. private behavior

Understand what safe touch is and what unsafe touch is not

Program Fee:

Program Fee Grid

Standards Alignment:

ISBE Health Standards 23.C.2a, 23.C.2b
ISBE Social Emotional Learning Standards: 1A.2a

Explore Further:

PUBERTY EDUCATION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS – Grades 5-9