Sexuality and My Teenage Children with Autism

At 10 and 11, her daughters who have severe autism started to masturbate, at times while they were in school or out in the public. "I never thought that sexuality would be an issue that I’d have to handle."

By speaking out openly on this issue, Jacqueline hopes that parents like herself can find better ways to support the sexual development of their children with autism or other intellectual disabilities.

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The Disabled Peoples Association of Singapore (DPA) organised its first sexuality workshop with speaker Martha Tara Lee, a clinical sexologist from Eros Coaching, in 2019 as part of their Di-Sex programme. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted their plans for subsequent sessions, but they plan to resume the programme in 2021.

[Portions of this video were filmed before the COVID-19 outbreak.]

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