Liana Marks works at Milestones, a nonprofit in Northampton, MA, teaching sexuality classes for adults. She has contributed to Whole Selves (www.wholeselves.org/), a healthy relationships curriculum for students with intellectual disabilities and autism.
Liana Marks
Teacher
Milestones
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Why adults with autism need sex education
Too few students with autism or intellectual disabilities have sex education. That omission may prevent them from forming fulfilling romantic relationships, and it may make them targets of abuse.
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