SBS Insight Airdate: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 20:30 Channel: SBS Imagine: you’ve been married to your partner for 25 years. You live with them, love them, are sexually attracted to them, but physical intimacy? Almost impossible. This is the reality for David and Jenni Heckendorf, who both have profound cerebral palsy that greatly limits their mobility. In order to have sex, they must use the...
The Age, November 25, 2015 Are women with disabilities “vulnerable”? Far from it, says Keran Howe. She doesn’t like the term, believing it makes the woman she has worked with as an advocate for more than 30 years seem passive, or submissive. Instead, women with disabilities are targeted, says Howe, by people who use sexual abuse and family violence to control and intimidate them...
Sydney Morning Herald, November 11, 2015 Now 23, Ariane was born with cerebral palsy spastic quadriplegia, which means she has reduced muscle tone in parts of her body and uses a wheelchair. It also means, like many people with physical disabilities, she has relied on assistance in the past to lead a normal adult sexual life; including help getting undressed before hopping into bed with her...
Tjina Maala Centre, WA, August 2015 The Pika Wiya Kuthupa project aims to investigate the needs of Aboriginal families caring for a child with a disability in the Goldfields region of Western Australia. The project established an Aboriginal community reference group, and during 2013 and 2014 conducted ‘storytelling circles’ community consultations. Aboriginal families caring for...