Islamic Perspective of Preventive Education Building from Child Sexual Abuse: An Intervention for Mothers to Help Special Children

Abstract

The Present study highlights an important critical topic regarding the lack of awareness on sex education among special need children parents. The inadequate content further gave rise to unique challenges among special need children; during physical, emotional and cognitive development. The main objective of the workshop based study aimed to provide awareness concerning sexual development in the special need children and encourage the parents to practice communication with their children while proving them with practical accurate information, promoting healthy behaviors, contributing to their over-all physical and emotional wellbeing. It was hypothesized that there would be difference in the special need children parental awareness about giving sex education to their special children before and after the intervention.  The Quantitative data from 115 participants was gathered through a 10 item questionnaire developed by Dr. Sheeba Farhan (2024) about parental awareness of sex education. Age-appropriate interventions were designed and executed in the form of training sessions for the special need children’s parents at special school venue.