SoSafe! Training Workshops ? disabilitydirectory.net.au

The SoSAFE! program is a set of visual and conceptual tools designed to promote social safety for people with moderate to severe intellectual disability (MSID) and/or autism spectrum disorder (ASD). SoSAFE! provides teachers, counsellors, and other professionals with simple visual tools to enhance the social, social-sexual and social safety training of these individuals.

The SoSAFE! program uses a standardised framework of concepts, symbols and visual lesson materials to teach the type and degree of communicative and physical intimacy appropriate with different groups of people in an individual?s life. The program also teaches strategies for moving into intimate relationships in a safe and measured manner. The standardised and integrated framework of SoSAFE! facilitates the consistency of instruction, terminology and materials; all of which are essential for the acquisition and maintenance of skills in people with a moderate to severe intellectual disability and/or autism spectrum disorder.

This one-day SoSAFE! workshop is an essential part of the program and introduces participants to the framework and rationale behind SoSAFE!, as well as equipping them with the skills necessary to implement this integrated framework for teaching relationships, sexuality and sexual health.

Developed by two special education teachers in reaction to their own challenges in the classroom, this new and innovative program is important for anyone working in the fields of MSID and/or ASD.

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As a result of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Describe social, linguistic and cognitive characteristics of clients with intellectual disability or ASD that expose them to increased risk of physical and sexual abuse
• Identify key design features of SoSAFE! that enhance social skill, sexuality education and social safety outcomes for these clients
• Explain the function of SoSAFE!?s principal tools (the Talk Touch Triangle, Steps to Relationship and People and Relationship Book)
• Describe how these tools can be used to address a number of common issues related to socio-sexual behaviour and social safety
• Discuss the potential of SoSAFE! as an inclusive early childhood social safety training program.

Source: http://www.disabilitydirectory.net.au/blog/2012/03/17/sosafe-training-workshops/

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