Efficacy of the EAS-SALUSEX affective- sexual education program for adolescents with ASD

Abstract

Efficacy of the eas-salusex affective-sexual education program for adolescents with asd. Adolescents with ASD are characterized by lack, in most cases, of the skills necessary to establish interactions with affective-sexual objectives. For this reason, at the request of a group of parents and teachers of a public High School, the SALUSEX team has designed and implemented a program of affective-sexual education especially aimed at satisfying their needs both in terms of knowledge and attitudes and, above all, in communication skills and interaction with their peers for affective-sexual purposes. The program was applied to the 10 teenagers (50% boys and 50% girls) between 14 and 17 years old that were part of the CyL classroom of a High School in Castellón de la Plana. The results show that their level of knowledge has improved substantially since, for example, 97.2% know the basic information in relation to body hygiene and STI prevention; they have also improved their attitudes because 87.5% responding correctly in terms of prevention of sexism and gender violence, but the most remarkable thing is their improvement in skills, having acquired 90.5% correct guidelines for behavior in couple relationships. Also noteworthy are the increasing numbers throughout the sessions in terms of motivation and satisfaction with the progress made. The need to normalize affective-sexual education in this group is concluded given the growing demand and good results obtained in this pilot study

Keywords

• adolescentes
• tea
• educación afectivo-sexual
• habilidades sociales