The Dangers of Engaging in Child Pornography (and How Education Can Prevent Heartbreak)

• By: Arlene Lechner, MEd Melissa Hochberg, MEd Ease Empowerment, Advocacy & Sexuality Education, LLC
• July 5th, 2023
• child pornography, consent, exploitation, law enforcement, legal consequences, online communities, online predators, online safety, social isolation, Summer 2023 Issue, vulnerability
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You are enjoying your morning cup of coffee and planning your day. Your young adult son with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is online in his room. There’s a forceful knock on the door. You open the door and find Federal Agents on your doorstep. They barge in to arrest your son and the rest is a...

Sexual Consent and Communication

• By: Kate McNulty, LCSW Autistic Therapist Morrigan Hunter, MA, MSW
• September 29th, 2022
• accommodation, actually autistic, communication, consent, Fall 2022 Issue, intimacy, relationships, sex
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Historically, professionals have assumed autistic people are incapable of engaging in partnered sexual activities or are uninterested in intimate relationships. Most services for autistics continue to focus on affected family members with children. Until recently, research on autistic sexual...

Top 6 Questions Asked by SLPs During COVID-19

• By: Lisa Moore, MS, CCC-SLP TeleTeachers
• July 1st, 2020
• consent, COVID-19, distance learning, education, SLP, students, summer 2020 issue, telepractice, teletherapy, workspace
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As an educational community, many of us are venturing into an unknown world of distance learning and are adapting to meet family and student needs on the fly. School districts are expanding to an online instructional model where students are attending speech and language sessions from their new...