Learning Difficulties and Sexual Vulnerability Format:Trade Paperback and designed specifically to develop

and designed specifically to develop social

teachers and speech therapists working with children who stutter

For the first time in the English language

with the hindsight gained in adult life that it is better to spend energy learning to be happy

social workers and psychologists

Learning Difficulties and Sexual Vulnerability Format:Trade Paperback and designed specifically to developPeople with learning difficulties are considerably more likely to experience sexual violence than those without, and for this reason they are often described as 'vulnerable'. However, the use of this label can in fact increase risk. This book argues that the act of treating adults with learning difficulties as 'vulnerable' and in need of protection strips them of their autonomy and leaves them with fewer of the skills which are needed to protect