Teachers of students with special needs need to be prepared adequately to teach their students sex education. For years, this has been acknowledged to be an important area of the curriculum, and there have been concerns about whether teachers are being prepared for this area of instruction. This study surveyed the directors/chairpersons of special education teacher preparation programs regarding the amount and type of coursework on sex education that their students received during their special education teacher preparation and compared the responses to responses to the same survey from 1980. Results indicate that students still were not receiving adequate preparation in the area of sex education, and stress the need for faculty involved with special education teacher preparation to address ways to include sex education coursework in their curriculum for teachers in training.
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