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When you fall in love and begin dating, adolescents with disabilities are encouraged to learn new things. The statement is the psychologist Ana Claudia Maia Bortolozzo, author of Sexuality and Disability, researcher and professor at Unesp Bauru.

The parents’ difficulties in dealing with the sexuality of disabled children can take them a good opportunity for socialization in the future. Sex education of children with disabilities must take into account all the possibilities they have as teenagers and adults to live their sexuality as people without disabilities.

In post Unpreparedness of parents reduces the child with disabilities the opportunity to discover and experience sexualityAna Claudia Bortolozzo, a professor at Unesp Bauru, author of Sexuality and Disability, said in an interview that many parents of children with disabilities raise their children without the prospect of a loving relationship in the future.

Early on, they believe they can prepare their children to work and earn money, but not for dating, marriage and children. However, according to psychologist, although prejudice still present in society, the discovery of sexuality is an important stimulus for the overall development of people.

The psychologist also said that new relationship possibilities opened by the inclusion policies are eliminating old barriers between people with and without disabilities, allowing for interaction and building a society for all. Therefore, contrary to what many people think sexuality is no longer a problem, but a good way for the future of children with disabilities.
Tomorrow, the last excerpt of the interview, Ana Claudia Bortolozzo speaks of school unprepared to deal with the sexuality of children with disabilities.