Blindness is a spectrum. These resources center blind, low-vision, and DeafBlind people’s access to information, relationships, pleasure, safety, and self-determination.
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Dating, attraction, and flirting
Love Is Blind: A Blind Sexologist on Attraction, Flirting, and Consent
Laura Millar’s perspective on attraction, flirting, and consent. Listed here as a dating resource and retained in the BSAN Blog.
Kissing and communication
Top Ten Things Sighted People Never Tell Us About Kissing
Written by Caitlin Hernandez and hosted by Connor Scott-Gardner on Catch These Words. It shares personal experience of kissing, communication, and the details visual explanations often leave out.
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Accessible sex education
Relationships and Sexuality Education for Students with Vision Impairment: A Handbook for Educators
By Claire Pardo and Hei Wah (Natalie) Chan, developed with the Statewide Vision Resource Centre. A free guide for educators teaching blind and low-vision students, covering accessible teaching, consent, relationships, puberty, and sexual health.
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Perkins: Teaching sexuality to blind students
A practical starting point for educators who need to teach sexuality explicitly and nonvisually to students who are blind or have low vision.
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Health Education for Students With Visual Impairments: A Guidebook for Teachers
APH’s guidebook offers ways to make health education accessible for students with visual impairments ages 5–21. Sex education is one chapter in this broader teacher resource. APH says it is not a curriculum and is intended for teachers, not students.
BSAN note: Laura Millar’s full review discusses strengths, concerns, and practical teaching recommendations. Read the BSAN blog review.
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Sexual Health Through the Expanded Core Curriculum: A Framework for Future Educators
A framework for educators connecting sexual health with the Expanded Core Curriculum. BSAN-authored writing, also available from the blog.
Related research: Teachers’ of Students with Visual Impairments Experiences Teaching and Facilitating Sexual Health Education, by Mika Baugh. Find the publication details, access notes, and review link in Academic Literature and Research.
Recorded community education: Sexual Health Education and Research: A Community-Centered Approach Driven by the Blind, presented by Mika Baugh. Audio and written-format links are grouped together in Podcasts and Audio.
Puberty and adolescence
Perkins: Puberty and the teen years with CVI
Information about puberty and adolescence for young people with cortical visual impairment and the adults who support them.
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Consent and community conversation
Hands On Safety: Do You Consent?
A BSAN-linked audio conversation with Bobbi Pompey and Laura Millar about consent, safety, and blind community experience.
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Find written resources on consent, boundaries, and bodily autonomy.
Adult pleasure and intimacy
Find Jayne Harrison’s two-part “Being Blind Doesn’t Mean I Can’t Enjoy Sex” series in Pleasure and sexual health.
Keep exploring
Listen to BSAN podcasts and audio, read the BSAN Blog, or visit Adult Pleasure and Intimacy.