Learning difficulties and sexual vulnerability

A social approach

Bibliographic Data

ID12312589
AuthorsAnne-Marie Callus (0000-0002-3505-3116, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume27
Issue2
Pages296-299
Publication date2012-02-16
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDisability & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0968-7599 • E-ISSN: 1360-0508
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09687599.2011.653105
OpenAlexW1999533817
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited2

This book presents an effective challenge to the idea that there is ‘a causal link \nbetween learning difficulties and risk’ in contexts where there is the possibility of sexual violence. It problematises the idea that sexual vulnerability is inherent \nto people with learning difficulties. Rather, it argues, sexual vulnerability can be \nseen as being created or abetted in specific social contexts. This argument is \ndeveloped on the basis of research that Hollomotz carried out with 12 men and \n17 women with learning difficulties, with the support of a research advisory \ngroup comprising 15 members of a self-advocacy group. She analyses the \nresearch data generated through what she calls ‘an ecological model’ – through \nthis model, which she explains at length, she investigates how vulnerability is \ncreated through the way ‘environments react to people with the label “learning \ndifficulties”’

Cognitive psychology · Computer security · Pedagogy · Psychological resilience · Social learning · Social vulnerability · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Computer Science · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology · Social Psychology

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