A Resource Guide for Signs of Sexual Assault. A Supplement to: Preventing Sexual Abuse of Persons with Disabilities: A Curriculum for Hearing Impaired, Physically Disabled, Blind and Mentally Retarded Students.

O'Day, Bonnie

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ERIC Number: ED277213

Record Type: RIE

Publication Date: 1983-Jun

Pages: 46

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A Resource Guide for Signs of Sexual Assault. A Supplement to: Preventing Sexual Abuse of Persons with Disabilities: A Curriculum for Hearing Impaired, Physically Disabled, Blind and Mentally Retarded Students.

O'Day, Bonnie

Part of a curriculum unit on preventing sexual abuse of persons with disabilities, the manual is intended to help instructors present the material to hearing impaired students. Illustrations of sign language are presented for such terms as sexual contact, sexual assault, incest, same sex assault (man/woman), rape (acquaintance/marital), exposer, obscene phone call, offenders, genitals, victims, vulnerable, myth, felony, prosecute, and venereal disease. The terms are offered as suggestions to explain vocabulary in the sexual abuse curriculum. (CL)

Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Prevention, Sexual Abuse, Sign Language

Publication Type: Reference Materials - Vocabularies/Classifications

Education Level: N/A

Audience: Practitioners

Language: English

Sponsor: Northwest Area Foundation, St. Paul, Minn.

Authoring Institution: Minnesota State Dept. of Corrections, St. Paul.

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Note: Prepared by the Minnesota Program for Victims of Sexual Assault. Not available from source to persons outside of Minnesota. For related document, see EC 171 720.