Abstract
Careful planning is necessary to establish a constructive, comprehensive, and developmental program in sex education for visually handicapped children and youth which is designed to inform and guide, yet has enough flexibility to recognize and meet highly individualized needs, and which allows the wholesome, healthy growth of the personal sexual self in the home and in society. Considerations must be given to staffing, budget, curriculum, materials, and models, as well as to the development of understanding and good communication with the home and among all staff members directly involved or in peripheral areas. Seven years of experience with such a program in a residential setting has produced observed profitable results.
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