Developing Personal Safety Skills in Children with Disabilities

All children are vulnerable to sexual abuse or danger, but for children with disabilities, the risks of being harmed are greatly magnified. This essential resource addresses these risks, presenting useful information and effective techniques that are designed to help parents, educators, and service providers teach children with disabilities how to protect themselves.
Offering a curriculum of learning activities that are organized into seven modules, this important guide focuses on how to develop the self-esteem, assertiveness, and independence skills that children with disabilities need to safeguard themselves. This practical approach can he used to teach children with special needs how to identify hazardous areas and objects, take proper action when lost in a public place, handle approaches by strangers, communicate their feelings, and recognize appropriate and inappropriate touching.