Sexuality in persons with intellectual disability and its concept in homes for people with disabilities

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Sexuality in persons with intellectual disability and its concept in homes for people with disabilities

Original language description

Partnerships, intimacy and sexuality are an integral part of everybody’s life. The same applies to persons with any type of impairment. For them, fulfilment in the area of partnerships, intimacy and sexuality is a significant factor and indicator of one’s value, quality of life and life satisfaction. The paper focuses on sexuality in persons with intellectual disability who live in social care establishments. In these types of establishments, these individuals are often part of a community governed by internal rules and standards. As a result, these establishments can create a specific environment in order to fulfil relational and sexual needs of their clients. The research involved individuals with intellectual disability and employees of homes for people with disabilities (HPDs). The main objective of the research is to find out how sexuality and its manifestations are perceived by the employees and clients of selected homes for people with disabilities. One of the partial objectives was to find out whether HPDs perform sexuality education, whether they use any professional resources and whether they provide continuing education and development in the area of sexuality both for employees and clients. The authors also analysed the knowledge and experience of clients in the area of sexuality, their perspectives of parenthood, privacy, sexuality education as well as partnerships and their establishment. Another aim was to investigate how the perception of sexuality had developed throughout the existence of the establishments. This information was acquired by means of semi-structured interviews and their subsequent analysis. The administration of the interviews was both personal and electronic in three homes for people with disabilities. The research, the results of which are presented in the text below, has brought new information about how specific homes address their clients’ sexuality, which resources they use and what experience and knowledge their clients have in the area of sexuality. It turned out that it would be desirable to perform a similar research study across the whole network of homes for people with disabilities in order to find out information that would help resolve further questions concerning partnerships, intimacy, sexuality as well as sexuality education of persons with intellectual disability in social care establishments.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50302 - Education, special (to gifted persons, those with learning disabilities)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Exceptional People

ISSN

1805-4978

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

21 (10)

Issue of the periodical within the volume

18

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

7-22

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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