Webinar: Top 5 Parental Issues and Concerns – Puberty – Supporting Healthy Sexuality During Pubescence

Families often experience anxiety when their child/tween with intellectual disabilities begins to exhibit changes that occur during puberty. In this workshop, parents will learn about the most frequently identified issues and concerns of parents of tweens with I/DD and practical ways to address them. Visual tools, fun learning activities, and useful resources specifically designed for individuals with intellectual disabilities will be shared.

Presenter: Terri Couwenhoven, M.S. is a certified sexuality educator who specializes in developing programs and resources for people who have intellectual and developmental disabilities, their families and the professionals who support them. She is the author of Teaching Children with Down Syndrome About Their Bodies, Boundaries and Sexuality: A Guide for Parents and Professionals, The Girls’ Guide to Growing Up: Choices and Changes in the Tween Years, A Boy’s Guide to Growing Up: Choices & Changes During Puberty and for teens and young adults, Boyfriends & Girlfriends: A Guide to Dating for People with Disabilities. When she is not teaching or writing, she is Clinic Coordinator for the Down Syndrome Clinic at Children’s Wisconsin. She is the mother of two girls. Her oldest daughter has Down syndrome.