The project LovABLE: Sex education for children with disabilities in early age school aims to promote the inclusion of disabled children in the important pedagogical education about human anatomy, human rights and self-awareness, healthy emotional relations and responsibilities, concent, hygiene, privacy, safety, sexuality along its development and issues of disability. Although sex education is becoming a part of the curriculum in most schools in the EU, less has been done for adapting and considering related issues for disabled children especially in early-childhood.

Objectives:

• Develop and apply high quality early childhood sex education for disabled children

• Support teachers of disabled children with material and methodologies for introducing early childhood sex education in their lessons and everyday practices

• Increase the inclusion of disabled children in sex education

Outcomes/Activities:

• Development of LovAble methodology targeting teachers, professionals working with children with disabilities and relevant professionals on how to educate them about sex and sexuality

• Implementation of a learning training activity for teachers, professionals working with children with disabilities and relevant professionals for upskilling their skills on LovAble methodology and guidelines

• Implementation of local workshops with school community (parents, teachers, professionals, carers etc)

• Implementation of local pilot non-formal/ formal education activities – workshops with children with disabilities.

• LovAble events that will promote the methodology of the project and its results to a broader audience (local community,policy makers etc)
  
  

The following organisations are involved in the project:

The coordinator:

Challedu (Greece) 

Partners:

• Centrul Școlar Pentru Educație Incluziva Arad (Romania)

• Preschool Special Education Unit in Chalkida (Greece)
  
  

The project is co-funded by the European Commission, under proposal number 2023-2-EL01-KA210-SCH-000174526