2020 illustrates increased prevalence rates of sexual violence against people with intellectual disabilities, compared to the general population.:61 The...

Sexuality and disability is a topic regarding the sexual behavior and practices of people with disabilities. Like the general population, these individuals...

Disability abuse is when a person with a disability is abused physically, financially, sexually and/or psychologically due to the person being disabled...

Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities & Mental Illness. BCcampus. Lund, Emily, & Hammond, Marilyn. (2014). "Single-Session Intervention for Abuse Awareness...

time served, amounting to about three years. Sexual abuse and intellectual disability Disability abuse Sherman, Carter (May 23, 2019). "Incapacitated...

Sexual assault is an act of sexual abuse in which one intentionally sexually touches another person without that person's consent, or coerces or physically...

Child sexual abuse (CSA), also called child molestation, is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation...

The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act regarding child sexual abuse laws in India has been enacted as part of the child protection...

discredited and that D.J. did not have the ability to consent to sexual relations. Experts evaluating D.J. testified he did not have the intellectual ability...

other communication disabilities who are non-verbal—seems to disclose experiences of abuse. Often, the alleged abuse is sexual and contains "extensive...

Retarded) was a state school and hospital for children and adults with intellectual disabilities located in Laurel, Maryland and operated by the District...

Intellectual disability (ID), also known as general learning disability (in the United Kingdom), and formerly mental retardation (in the United States)...

found guilty of raping, sexually abusing, sexually exploiting, abusing, and wilfully neglecting five children: four boys and one girl. In total, the five...

against women and girls with disabilities. Mental disorder § Violence Sexual abuse and intellectual disability Ableism "Violence against adults and children...

with intellectual disabilities have regularly occurred in England during the last 50 years, most involving those in residential care. Elder abuse refers...

Child abuse (also called child endangerment or child maltreatment) is physical, sexual, emotional and/or psychological maltreatment or neglect of a child...

activists' actions, significant abuses of people with disabilities, and the founding of various organizations. Although the disability rights movement itself began...

with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the United States. These institutions are run by individual states. These state schools were and are...

with intellectual and physical disabilities and homeless children in Australia and New Zealand. McGrath has been convicted of child sexual abuse on five...

known for inter-generational poverty and the conviction in the 1980s of many family members for sexual abuse and incest. The Goler family lived together...

of disabilities affecting cognitive ability. This is a broad concept encompassing various intellectual or cognitive deficits, including intellectual disability...

examination of sex differences in a nonclinical sample" (PDF). Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment. 28 (1): 20–45. doi:10.1177/1079063214525645...

repeated blocking of disabled access and verbal abuse. These hate crimes are associated with prejudice against a disability, or a denial of equal rights for...

Philip W.; Santos, Flavia H. (eds.). Mental Health, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and the Ageing Process. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature...

abuse of authority, or against a person who is incapable of giving valid consent, such as one who is unconscious, incapacitated, has an intellectual disability...

Paraphilias are sexual interests in objects, situations, or individuals that are atypical. The American Psychiatric Association, in its Diagnostic and Statistical...

lectures, he touched on his distaste for barriers around people with intellectual disabilities, a motivating philosophy behind L'Arche: "We must do what we can...

prepubescent and pubescent or post-pubescent minors. Although some people who commit child sexual abuse are pedophiles, child sexual abuse offenders are...

provider trained and experienced in counseling those with intellectual disabilities on sexual intercourse. Those with intellectual disabilities may have hesitations...

employment equity, education, and housing; and freedom from discrimination, abuse, neglect, and from other rights violations. Disability activists are working...