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Contains information to help you find advice regarding personal and sexual problems.
Finding help
There are three kinds of organisation you can talk to:
Those welcoming everyone needing guidance.
Those specialising in helping all disabled people with their relationships;
Those dedicated to particular disabilities
For everyone
Your GP can discuss your personal and sexual problems with you, then refer you to the experts within the NHS or to an NHS family planning clinic if necessary.
Brook Advisory Centres welcome disabled people up to the age 25 at centres around the country, and they have a 24-hour confidential information service.
Helpline Tel: 0207 617 8000
The Family Planning Association provides a nation-wide information and education service on all aspects of contraception and sexual health. The FPA can also give details of your nearest source of family planning help and advice. UK-wide helpline Tel: 0207 636 7866
Relate offers counselling to adult couples with relationship difficulties whether or not they are married.
There are 126 centres throughout England and Wales,
some of which have counsellors with specialist understanding of the needs
of disabled people. Relate also publishes a wide range of helpful literature.
Tel: 01788 573 241 or look in the phone book for ypur local centre.
For all disabled people
The Association to Aid the Sexual and Personal Relationships of People with a Disability (formerly SPOD) is the national organisation providing publications and information. It has a country-wide network of counsellors and may be able to put you in touch with someone you can talk to locally. It provides:
The website above, informs us unfortunately, that this organisation has now closed.An information and counselling service for disabled people, their partners or carers having sexual or relationship difficulties;
An information service for workers among disabled people;
Education and training on various aspects of sexuality
A range of helpful publications. Tel: 0207 607 8851
Website : http://www.spod-uk.org
For people with particular disabilities
British Deaf Association offers people with a hearing impairment information and support about sexually transmitted diseases, safer sex, sexuality and sexual relationships, pregnancy and contraception. Helpline (Wednesday 7pm-10pm) textphone: 01270 250 743
DISCERN
offers counselling to people with physical or learning
disabilities who wish to explore issues around their sexuality and personal
relationships. Tel: 0115 947 4147 (Nottingham); 01623 237 732 (Mansfield)
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Web site: http://www.discerncounselling.org.uk
Spinal Injuries Association has welfare counselling services which provide counselling and advice to help solve problems, including personal and sexual ones, and put people in touch with one another. The SIA produces a range of publications about sexual issues and newsletter in which readers discuss matters regularly and fully.
Tel: 0208 444 2121
Young Arthritis Care is for people under 45 with arthritis. It has a nationwide network of over 80 contacts, all of them young people with arthritis. Contact Arthritis Care Tel/text 0207 916 1500
Genetic Interest Group (GIG) is concerned with issues of genetic disordres and co-ordinates groups specialising in particular disorders. Its information service provides addresses where people who are worried about passing on a disability to the next generation can find help locally. Tel: 0207 430 0090
SPOD, Relate, the Family Planning Association (FPA), Headway, ASBAH, The Huntington’s Disease Association, the Stroke Association and the Spinal Injuries Association are amongst the organisations producing helpful publications.
Sexuality Booklets (Heterosexual Woman, Heterosexual Man, Lesbian, Gay Man) Spinal Injuries Association £6 each or £20 set of four.
See ‘Addresses’ for full addresses of organisations mentioned in ‘RELATIONSHIPS’
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